Dallas Police say apartment complexes are sources for most of the city's violent crime. The department has been working on a plan for months to tack this statistic.
After five abatable offenses, property owners have to prove they're taking"reasonable steps" to reduce crime on their properties.In 2019, a group of activists, most of them carrying firearms, patrolled an apartment complex in a southern Dallas community called Highland Hills. They called themselves community engagement specialists. They were with community activist groups Guerrilla Mainframe and Black Empowerment Movement.
The Dallas Police Department says most of the city’s murders, robberies and aggravated assaults were occurring in apartment complexes like these. The city has identified 47 areas as crime hotspots in Dallas. Of those, 26 are apartment complexes. At the city’s public safety committee meeting on Tuesday, Dallas police Sgt. James Stephens said nearly one-fifth of all violent crime last year happened in apartment complexes.
But City Council members on the committee said the plan isn’t specific enough and it doesn’t do a lot to address violent crime happening in these communities now. To combat crime, the city has turned to other avenues of engaging with different communities in Dallas. For example, the
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