City Council Member Adam McGough’s District 10 saw the third-largest year-over-year Crime Score increase out of all 14 council districts last month.
District 10, located in northeastern Dallas and containing The L Streets and Lake Highlands neighborhoods, is typically considered a “low-crime” area. However, it saw significant spikes in a handful of crime categories in March.
For instance, motor vehicle thefts skyrocketed from 45 last year to 115, with the Dallas Police Department clocking a whopping 155.6% increase year over year, according to the City of Dallas Open Data crime analytics dashboard.
The district’s 115 motor vehicle thefts accounted for 9.2% of the 1,247 cases reported across the 14 city districts in March.
DPD also logged increases in burglaries and vandalism/destruction of property cases in District 10.
The district’s vandalism cases jumped up to 68 in March 2023, a 15.3% increase. District 10 reported 8.1% of the city’s 832 cases.
Burglaries also increased, with three more cases reported last month than in March 2022, signifying a 9.4% increase. The 35 burglaries reported in District 10 represent 7.8% of the total 448 cases opened in March citywide.
A request for comment was sent to Council Member McGough’s office, but no response was received by press time. The council member reached his term limit of eight consecutive years and is not running for re-election this cycle.
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.
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