Crime drops in the capital city because the police use networks to target the worst offenders

IN Dallas Police Directorate He recorded a decline in violent crime in 2024, conducting proven strategy for a proactive fight against crime in Texas.

Police chief Michael Igo told Fox News Digital that his efforts to reduce violent crime resulted in fewer incidents and fewer victims during 2024.

“2021 we hired criminologists from the University of Texas San Antonio, and we implemented a crime plan that was really based on three different stages or three different strategies,” he said. “One was a police gait.

Dallas is one of the two cities among the largest cities in the country, along with the Texas neighbor Fort Worth, led by the Republican mayor.

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Results guided by data

IGO explained that the city has collected information on where the violent crime is and non -violent crime It happened and created nets from 300 to 300 yards in Dallas, which police say they experience disproportionate crime levels.

“We worked together at this data to compile a crime plan in which our networks were identified,” he said. “We had what we called Tag areas, where most of our crime was in the city. And in these nets, what we discovered was the place where most of our violent crime was happening.”

“The really assumption was that we took the information and put a car with our lights, in the area of ​​high violence only 15 minutes,” he said.

He said that in the last three years the Dallas Police Directorate has worked to solve individuals who “showed the most preferences commit crimes in these areas. “

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The PNI aspect of the strategy refers to an approach that focuses on “the spatial distribution of crime in the communities and the role of unconscious places that individuals and criminal networks use to facilitate crime”, ” DPD said on his website.

These include traditional efforts in the implementation of police, such as arrest and controlled drug purchases, as well as actions to “change the criminogenic nature” of these places, including the implementation of the codex, reduction, changes in environment, efforts aimed at disorders (graffiti abots, garbage clean above, abandoned, abandoned vehicle removal, weed/brush removal) and other strategies.

Igo said that they had been honoring the crime that the crime had influenced the community, dealing with non -governmental organizations.

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“We provided services, whether it was a job service, Drug rehabilitation services, And try to make them be removed from that element of the crime, “he said.

Numbers

Dallas Police Directorate reported a reduction of 8.2% in violent crime Across the city of 2024, including 26% of the killing reduction compared to the previous year.

The fall of the murder is 65 fewer victims of the murder than in 2023, leading to the City of Murder rate to the lowest level from before the pandemic, according to the data published by the DPD.

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“When you start saying 26% of the killings reduction, but then you say that it is 65 fewer people who died this year in Dallas,” said Council member Cara Mendelsohn, states Dallas observer. “That’s amazing!”