More crimes were reported in City Council Member Jesse Moreno’s District 2 last month than in any other city council district in Dallas.
As previously reported in The Dallas Express, Council Member Moreno has received the title of Crime Boss of the Month three times so far since the inception of the paper and recently logged the biggest year-over-year increase in drug offenses for the month of February.
His district stretches down a length of Harry Hines Boulevard toward downtown and includes the Deep Ellum and Oak Lawn neighborhoods, in addition to the area around Dallas Love Field.
The Dallas Police Department (DPD) documented 1,114 criminal offenses this March that took place in Council Member Moreno’s district.
In terms of raw numbers, District 2 had a serious problem last month with drug offenses (227), car burglaries (216), motor vehicle thefts (135), simple assaults (132), and vandalism (96), according to the City of Dallas Open Data crime analytics dashboard.
While Council Member Moreno’s district may have racked up the most individual incidents in March, District 2 was beaten out in a couple of categories by Council Member Paul Ridley’s District 14.
District 14 borders Council Member Moreno’s district from the north. It includes parts of downtown and the Uptown and Old East Dallas neighborhoods.
Ridley’s district had the most car burglaries last month, with DPD logging 239. Additionally, District 14 also had the most motor vehicle thefts committed. Some 160 were reported, according to City data.
As previously reported in The Dallas Express, Council Member Ridley has thus far proven unwilling to go on the record with the paper over the crime in his district, with numerous requests for comment going ignored.
A request for comment was sent to Council Member Moreno and his staff, but a response was not received by press time.
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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There are actually more vehicle break-ins or thefts than are reported. We lived at the Elle for just a few months and it’s a real problem there. Management doesn’t report the instances in the garage (that’s underground, gate controlled by the way) they say that’s the vehicle owner’s responsibility. It was a hot topic at a resident meeting several weeks back. They now have an overnight security person, but it’s a lot of square footage for one person to be through the 8 floors in the building and 4/5 floors in the garage. The building also doesn’t monitor the security cameras. Some of the cameras aren’t on. This insight was shared at the same meeting by property management – the staff are there to lease apartments and don’t have time to watch days of footage.
The reason none of these council people respond is because they know Dallas Express has a decidedly right-wing editorial slant. And like I’ve commented MANY TIMES here….What exactly do you expect a council person to do about crime in their district? Do ride alongs with the police? Carry signs around on their back pleading with people to be good? Maybe they could accompany the police to do raids on each house with no warrants and roust out the criminals! Like most right-wing solutions to VERY COMPLEX problems, you choose the most ineffective (but easiest to stoke up your base). Pathetic.
The councilperson could be raising holy hell with the DA’s office, could be vocal to the Sheriff’s office, could get the news media to pay attention, and could explain why it’s so bad and provide workable solutions rather than hide behind their desks and doors. Represent or resign.
“ decidedly right-wing editorial slant” ?
And where do you get your news? CNN+ ?
What city outside of Texas are you posting from Ben?