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 victim demographics dashboard, 56.1% of the 280 victims of such crimes have been black this year as of March 12, and 21.4% have been Hispanic or Latino.
Crimes against persons include all assault offenses, criminal homicides, sexual assaults, kidnappings, and human trafficking offenses.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Stewart was named March Crime Boss of the Month for the 21.5% year-over-year Crime Score increase logged in her council district, which is located in northeastern Dallas around I-635.
Budgeting only around $654 million for the Dallas Police Department this fiscal year, the Dallas City Council chose to spend less taxpayer money on public safety than other high-crime jurisdictions, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Among black victims in District 10, the median age was 33, and nearly 75% were women or girls. For Hispanic or Latino victims, the median age was 29, and just over 63% were women or girls.
The public safety situation in Dallas has been tenuous amid a rise in property crime and a longstanding officer shortage at DPD, which fields only around 3,000 officers, while a prior City analysis claims a figure approximating 4,000 is more appropriate for a city the size of Dallas.
Downtown Dallas, in particular, has seen a steady increase in crime over the last few years, regularly outdoing Fort Worth’s downtown area in terms of criminal activity. Private security guards and a special neighborhood police unit patrol the area.
The Dallas Express, The People’s Paper, believes that important information about the city, such as crime rates and trends, should be easily accessible to you. Dallas has more crime per capita than hotspots like Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York, according to data from the FBI’s UCR database.
How did your area stack up on crime? Check out our interactive Crime Map to compare all Dallas City Council Districts. Curious how we got our numbers? Check out our methodology page here.