Black and Hispanic people appear to comprise a clear majority of victims of “crimes against persons” in Council Member Kathy Stewart’s District 10, per City data. According to the City of Dallas...
Multiple Sunday Homicides Jack up Dallas Murder Rate
A recent string of homicides has officially made November a more lethal month than October, as three killings over the weekend continued the upward trajectory of the city's murder rate. As of...
Robbery Incidents Spike City-Wide
As November draws to a close, reported robberies are skyrocketing in Dallas, with significant double-digit increases from the previous month of October. As of Sunday, November 27, the Dallas Police...
Dallas District 7 Plagued by Violent Homicides & Assaults
As previously reported in The Dallas Express, violent crime was on the rise last month in City Councilman Adam Bazaldua's district in South Dallas. District 7 saw a significant uptick in Homicides,...
Violent Crime Spikes in District 7
Earlier this month, The Dallas Express named District 2's Jesse Moreno Crime Boss of the Month, a first for the city councilman who clocked a double-digit crime increase year-over-year for the month...
Assaults Soar in Dallas District 2
Crime incident data for Dallas City Council District 2, home of reigning Crime Boss Jesse Moreno, showed an astounding 252 assaults in October.
Digging into Dallas District 2’s Unpublicized Crime
As previously reported in The Dallas Express, Jesse Moreno was recently named Crime Boss of the Month because of the steep increase in City Council District 2's Crime Score compared to October 2021....
Jesse Moreno of Dallas’ District 2 Earns First Crime Boss Title
Drug offenses and car thefts increased dramatically in District 2 last month, making Jesse Moreno the Crime Boss for the first time.
Taking a Deep Dive into Willis’ District 13 Crime
As previously reported in The Dallas Express, runaway crime has hung the mantle of Crime Boss of the Month around the neck of Councilmember Gay Donnell Willis, with non-stop, month-after-month...
Crime Scores Averaging Higher Than Last Year
With 10 months in the books and the end of the year rapidly approaching, law-breaking stat numbers continue to increase.
Violent Crime Remains a Problem in Dallas
The City of Dallas approved a $4.75 billion budget for the fiscal year 2022-23, and one-line item on that bill includes giving the Dallas Police Department (DPD) $611.9 million in funding,...
Murdered Rapper Just One of Three Homicides in District 7
"The murder rate in my city is going up," Antywon Dillard rapped just months before he was murdered. "S--t is tragic." Known socially in South Dallas and to his fans as BFG Straap, Dillard, 22, made...
Crime Boss Runner-Up: Moreno of Dallas District 2
Jesse Moreno, City of Dallas District 2 councilman, and his constituents saw crime rise last September, but that news is unfortunately hardly a surprise: when comparing crime statistics...
Crime Boss Runner-Up: District 14’s Paul E. Ridley
Double-digit growth in multiple categories powered Crime Boss runner-up Paul E. Ridley’s Crime Score increase in District 14.
Willis’ District 13 Has Never Seen Score Decrease in Crime Boss History
In an open letter published in Texas Metro News this week, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson discussed the 2022-23 fiscal year budget. At $4.51 billion, it is the city's largest budget ever, and it contains...
Willis Nabs Crime Boss Title for Second Straight Month
District 13 was one of just three districts to see a higher Crime Score in September 2022 over that same month in 2021, with an increase of 18.05%.
Dallas’ Crime Score Averages Higher in 2022
As we enter the final quarter of 2022, a quick look back at crime statistics from the previous nine months can give some helpful insight into where the City of Dallas is headed as the year draws to...
Dallas Auto Thefts Continue to Rev Up
The City of Dallas saw Motor Vehicle Thefts increase year-over-year yet again in August, jumping 91 from 2,274 in 2022 compared to that month in 2021, according to the City's crime statistics....
See Which Districts Saw Crime Score Increases
As summer turns to autumn and September flips to October, The Dallas Express will soon be naming a new Crime Boss of the Month (CBOM). In September, Gay Donnell Willis was named CBOM after the City...
‘Violent Street Crimes’ Up in Dallas
The City of Dallas Police Department put its Violent Crime Reduction Plan into action in May 2021, and a year later claimed that overall “violent street crime” -- murder, robbery, and non-family...
City of Dallas Suffers 700 August Assaults
Last month, 745 residents of Dallas were assaulted. The city averaged 24.03 assaults per day, a slight increase from August 2021, when assaults totaled 733, or 23.6 per day. Out of the city's 14...