Oak Grove Police Dept
While the traffic stop numbers for the Oak Grove Police Department appear accurate, they do not represent the daily pass-through population of the community due to businesses along the interstate. This is represented in the fact that less than 1⁄4 of total traffic stops are residents of the community, or that 3⁄4 of the traffic stops are non-residents. As a community situated along a major interstate and a last stop before or after a major metro area, the city of Oak Grove has three truck stops with a combined four hundred and fifty large truck parking spots and additional car parking. To accommodate the truck stops and attract other travelers the interstate exit also has no less than ten restaurants and three lodging options. In addition, directly adjacent to the truck stops is a national retail store. While difficult to capture exact numbers, door counts for each truck stop estimate the average number of passes per month at sixty-thousand motorists exiting the interstate for local businesses. With that many big trucks and motorists exiting the highway the departments traffic enforcement efforts are focused on surface streets surrounding the businesses and the area surrounding the interstate exit. The required enforcement efforts surrounding the largest traffic congestion for the community undoubtedly skews the department contact percentages associated to the ac- tual population numbers for Oak Grove. While officers are encountering minority populations higher than the local estimated population, the rate of actions remain equal or below averages in most category charts.