The police department is seeing some success with its crime reduction plan, but that doesn't mean things are rosy, especially when compared to other cities.
The Dallas Police Department started executing its three-part plan to reduce violentin May 2021. As of July this year, all three phases of the plan are being implemented and the department is seeing results. The crime plan includes a short-term hot spots policing strategy, a mid-term place network investigations strategy and a longer-term focused deterrence strategy.
DPD Police Chief Eddie Garcia described violent crime reduction as lowering the temperature across the city. “The police department is a fever reducer. We’re not a cure to the illness,” Garcia said. “We’re doing our very best to reduce the fever.” The department has also seen increases in the number of murders and aggravated assaults while other cities have seen decreases. There was a 9.3% increase in murders and a 10.1% increase in aggravated assaults when compared with the years before the crime plan was implemented, for example. Most of this violent crime occurs in and around older apartment complexes, Smith said.
In the spring of 2022, DPD put together what is called a place network investigations team to investigate high-crime areas in the city. The department looked at the team’s work in three of the city's PNI locations: 3550 E. Overton Road in southern Dallas, and 11760 Ferguson Road and 11511 Ferguson Road in northeast Dallas.
Other major cities are also seeing reductions in violent crime, and even in murders. In Fort Worth, for example, murder and manslaughter was down by about 32% in the first quarter of the year when compared with the same period last year. Aggravated assaults also fell by 2.5%, according to a crime report by the Fort Worth Police Department. Fort Worth attributed its success to a program called FortWorthSafe.
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