The City of Dallas has a sex trafficking problem, according to Shepherd’s Watch Foundation.
Can DPD Combat a Crime Surge Without 4K Cops?
Community activists and criminologists wonder if an understaffed Dallas Police Department can successfully maintain its Violent Crime Reduction Plan.
Driver Plows Through Barricade, Hits Four Dallas Officers
Four Dallas police officers were injured while responding to a shooting call early Thursday morning. The four officers had been part of a unit dispatched to the 3100 block of Community Drive near...
Downtown Crime Outpaces Cowtown’s Safer City Center
Downtown Dallas saw significantly more motor vehicle thefts, assaults, and robberies than Fort Worth's downtown area in August. The Metroplex Civic & Business Association (MCBA) conducted a...
Kidnapping Suspect Arrested After Stand-Off With SWAT Team
A stand-off between SWAT officers and a suspected kidnapper in North Texas ended in an arrest Monday afternoon. Multiple law enforcement agencies arrived at a home in the 2600 block of Timberleaf...
Local Police Allegedly Attempt Forced Entry at Wrong Address
A woman has filed a complaint with the Red Oak police department after officers allegedly attempted to enter her apartment by mistake while responding to a domestic violence call last week. The...
Stoplight Shooting Bumps Northwest Dallas’ Murder Count
A suspect is still at large after a murder committed Saturday night in northwestern Dallas. Police received a shooting call around 11:20 p.m. The shooting occurred in Council Member Omar Narvaez's...
Response Times for Robberies in Eastern Dallas Double
Police are taking about one hour longer to respond to robbery calls in eastern Dallas than in other parts of the city amid the Dallas Police Department's ongoing police shortage. So far this year,...
Double-Digit Increase in Murders Batters Minority Men, Boys
Murders are still on the rise in Dallas, and the vast majority of victims have been men and boys of color. As of September 9, there have been 175 criminal homicides committed in the city that have...
Car Burglaries, Homelessness Swamp Downtown
More car burglaries seem to be committed downtown than anywhere else in the city as concerns over crime and vagrancy in the heart of Dallas persist. As of September 8, a total of 2,586 thefts from...
Father of School Shooting Suspect Sentenced
The father of a teenager involved in a shooting at Lamar High School in Arlington in March was sentenced to over six years in federal prison on Thursday. John Edward Porter, 50, faced his own legal...
South Dallas Shooting Leaves Woman Dead, Multiple Injured
A shooting happened outside of a liquor store in South Dallas on Thursday afternoon that led to the death of one woman and the wounding of three men. At around 4 p.m., the Dallas Police Department...
Dallas Officer Arrested While Off-Duty for Family Violence
Dallas Police Department announced that one of its officers has been placed on administrative leave following his arrest for alleged family violence while off-duty Wednesday. An internal affairs...
Dallas Landlord Charged for Fatally Shooting Resident
A Dallas man was arrested on a murder charge in connection to a fatal shooting on Monday morning in a South Dallas residence he owns. Damien Walker, 45, is in police custody after apparently...
DEA: ‘Everyone Will Know Someone Who Has Died’ From Fentanyl
As the fentanyl crisis continues to worsen throughout Texas, a special agent for the DEA says it will soon impact every person in the state. In 2012, there were 59 deaths recorded in Texas due to...
AMBER Alert Turns to Capital Murder Charges for Dallas Teen
In an unexpected series of events, a Dallas teenager was the subject of an AMBER Alert and then charged with capital murder hours later. Natalie Navarro, 17, initially gained attention when an AMBER...
VIDEO: Footage Released of Suspect in Fatal Robbery
Dallas police are asking for the public's help to identify two people involved in the robbery and murder of an armored car service guard last week. The Dallas Police Department has released still...
TCU Student Killed in Random Shooting
A Texas Christian University student was killed Friday morning in what appears to be an act of random violence in the Fort Worth Entertainment District. Wes Smith, a junior majoring in finance and...
Trial Set for TX Lawmaker In Police Union Case
A trial will soon begin for a Texas legislator accused of holding donations from a Dallas police union charity "hostage." The donations were intended to go to families of the five officers slain in...
South Central Dallas Logs Alarming Police Response Times
The substantial staffing shortage in the Dallas Police Department has led to alarming police response times, especially within the jurisdiction of the department's South Central Patrol Division. As...
Crime Stats Note Increase in Prostitution, Sex Trafficking
Dallas has seen a substantial increase in prostitution-related offenses in 2023, however, the number of human trafficking offenses related to commercial sex remains relatively low. According to the...