Editing Stilwell, Oklahoma (section)

==Crime==
Stilwell has one of the highest crime rates in America, compared to communities of all sizes. The crime rate in Stilwell is 122% higher than the national average, and 71% higher than the state average.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Stilwell, OK Crime Rates & Crime Map|url=https://www.areavibes.com/stilwell-ok/crime/|access-date=2020-01-21|website=[[AreaVibes]]}}</ref> Violent crime has increased every year since 2009<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ok/stilwell/crime|title=Crime in Stilwell, Oklahoma|website=www.city-data.com|access-date=2020-01-21}}</ref> and Stilwell has an [[List of countries by incarceration rate|incarceration rate]] higher than what's found in every other country in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Wagner |first1=Peter |last2=Sawyer |first2=Wendy |title=States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018|url=https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018.html |date=June 2018 |access-date=2024-06-15|website=Prison Policy Initiative |language=en}}</ref> The murder rate in Stilwell is 10 per 100,000 people, double the national average.<ref name="omaha.com"/> In response to the town's high crime rate, Stilwell has a year-round [[curfew]] in place that prohibits people under the age of 18 from being in public past midnight.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AN ORDINANCE SETTING CURFEW WITHIN THE TOWN OF STILWELL|url=https://ok-stilwell.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/577/237-Curfew-Minors}}</ref>

Three bombs were detonated in Stilwell on January 23, 2012. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI), [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF), [[Oklahoma Highway Patrol]], Adair County Sheriffs, and Stilwell city police investigated the explosions. The investigation concluded the explosions were intentional and were caused by pipe bombs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffin |first=David |title=FBI: Explosions At Stilwell Business Early Monday Were Intentional |url=https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3651d22f69d76f62068a52/fbi:-explosions-at-stilwell-business-early-monday-were-intentional |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=www.newson6.com |language=en}}</ref>

Approximately {{convert|12|mi|km}} southeast of Stilwell is [[Elohim City, Oklahoma|Elohim City]], an armed, evangelical, [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] compound with alleged ties to the [[Oklahoma City bombing|Oklahoma City Bombing]]. The enclave has ties to myriad criminal, terror and racist organizations, including the [[The Order (white supremacist group)|Aryan Resistance Movement]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1997-02-23|title=Elohim City on Extremists' Underground Railroad|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-23-mn-31595-story.html|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2005-07-10|title=Elohim City questions resurrected by Nichols|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/1548200/elohim-city-questions-resurrected-by-nichols/|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Oklahoman.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=ADL Combating Hate: Elohim City|url=https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/Elohim-City.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> An [[Associated Press]] investigation from 2003 concluded that white supremacists from Elohim City played a “major role” in the bombing of the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] that killed 168 people.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Where there more OKC conspirators?: The Elohim City Mystery|url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/moreconspirators.html|access-date=2021-01-19|website=law2.umkc.edu}}</ref> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] calls the compound “the meeting ground for America’s most sinister extremists”.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Who's Afraid of Elohim City? {{!}} This Land Press - Made by You and Me|url=https://thislandpress.com/2012/04/15/whos-afraid-of-elohim-city/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=thislandpress.com}}</ref>