Worst City Title in the US

I recently came across this article through a Facebook friend about an Oklahoma City police officer being charged with three dozen counts of sexual assault.  It's obviously a very troubling story but not exactly what I want to talk about here.  While I do hope for all victims of abuse of any kind to receive justice, what I couldn't stop focusing on was the picture in the article, which I've reproduced here. (picture credit to Paul L. McCord Jr. [I think.  The original article just gives that name with a link to a Flickr page.  Although that's more credit than the writer, Mr. or Ms. "Feminist Newswire" received])

It took me a while to wrap my head around this picture because I wasn't aware that Oklahoma City refers to itself as "The City of Oklahoma City," which, let's be honest with ourselves, is completely insane.  I stared at the text in this photo for a while trying to make sense of it, because surely, I thought, no one would do that.  Instead this poorly designed logo (note the weird spacing)  must be meant to be read like "The City of Oklahoma: City Police," or even "The City of Oklahoma City Police" with no breaks or pauses in a misguided attempt at seeming protective while really just being ominously possessive.  Somehow worse than that is the actual answer: Oklahoma City is the city equivalent of a person who talks in third person.

If you go the extra mile and add the state to the end you have "The City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma," (capital city of the state of Oklahoma) which can easily be said with just the two words: "Oklahoma City."  It needs no further explanation.  It's literally smack dab in the middle of Oklahoma, and unlike what you probably think of when you hear "Oklahoma," it's a city.  If you had never heard of it before there are still two assumptions you would have made upon hearing of Oklahoma City: 1) it is a city 2) it is in Oklahoma.  But still, just in case you didn't figure it out, Oklahoma City would like to remind you that it is a city.

Further investigations into this matter show that there is no Town of Oklahoma City, no Oklahoma City County, (the county the city is in is actually called [surprise] Oklahoma County) no People's Republic of Oklahoma City, no State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City Plantations, and as far as I can tell there are no celestial bodies of any kind named Oklahoma City (although who knows what's really out there?).  There are no other places, concepts or entities of any kind with which Oklahoma City can possibly be confused, so why are they doubling down on the citys (sic) like they're pieces of fried chicken that are somehow the healthiest parts of the sandwich they're in?

To be fair to Oklahoma City, they are still the number one city in the US if you rank cities by the number of times they call themselves a city.  Even New York sticks to at most just New York City or the City of New York, but never both at the same time, so in that regard they beat what is largely considered the greatest city in the world.  Congratulations.  Now that that's been said they can finally stop overcompensating and stick to being one city at a time.