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Property Crimes Rise in Northeast Dallas

Property Crimes
Burglar breaking into a home | Image by tommaso79/Shutterstock

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.

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.

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3 Comments

  1. Djea3

    Remember people, the SUPREME COURT has ruled that police have no duty to protect; only to investigate and arrest. Therefore YOU are responsible to protect your property and self. The police will show up hours later to take a report (if you are lucky), or will take one over the phone and not even attempt to take fingerprints.

    Texas has wonderful laws, possibly the most clear and concise with regard to the right to protect property, including VEHICLES. Read up and be willing to protect your own property, the police are not tasked with that at all by federal court mandate. YOU are tasked with that.

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  2. Wolfgang

    And they will continue to worsen as the public is doing little more honestly than what the “leaders” of this country are doing and forcing people to do in order to simply survive.
    Myself and others warned people for decades about the problems we face now and you all spit on us ignored us called us crazy and conspiracy theorist and more nasty things. Now you all sit around debating subjects and problems.youre still too clueless to understand and attempting to solve issues in moronic ways given your absolute ignorance and desire to blindly follow

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  3. DDM

    The article regarding the rise in crime D10
    The article mentions two areas in NE Dallas D10. That can limit perspective putting focus on those areas.
    The district includes many neighborhoods and businesses North of LBJ.
    Woodbridge
    Whispering Hills
    Richland Park Estates
    Hamilton Park
    and many others. The crime rate covers the full scope of D10. Many my not know the boundaries for each district.

    That could be something share in Dallas Express.

    Thanks

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