Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes said the mass shooting in Como this week is ‘absolutely not’ a depiction of the community as a whole.
Noakes also attended the meeting Thursday night.
According to the most updated quarterly data from the Fort Worth Police Department, overall violent crime as of June 2023 is down 7.4% compared to June 2022. Murders are down 18% and non-fatal shootings are down about 28% compared to that same frame. Noakes told NBC 5 that while the downward trend is encouraging, that does not mean their work is done.
“The problem is, we talk about crime going down. We talk about things going better, but we are sitting here talking about a mass shooting. Those things shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence, but that’s where we are,” he said. “We know that despite the fact that the numbers, many are trending in exactly the direction we want them to go, we know we can’t rely on that and just claim victory now. ‘We are done. Job’s over.’ That job will never be done.
after an uptick at the time. The approach is different than traditional policing, as it uses technology and data to help identify where violent crime is most prevalent. From there, resources are strategically focused in those areas.“What we did is we took what we did last year and we learned from it. We talked to officers who have been doing the initiatives. We talked to people in the community. We found out what was doing well and maybe what we need to change, do better,” he said.
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