As crime ticked upward in some U.S. cities, Dallas bucked that trend. Why?
Nationwide, the murder rate soared 30% between 2019 and 2020 — the largest single-year increase in more than a century, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since then,but has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
While crime is up by some measures, public perception of crime is even higher as the issue has grown politicized, according toIn 2022, 73% of Republicans said crime in their area has risen, while only 51% of independents and 42% of Democrats said the same., a former Dallas gang leader who founded Urban Specialists, which works to keep kids from violence. “We’re scared of the same elements you are. We want our neighborhoods to be safe.
Antong Lucky, executive director of Urban Specialists, poses for a portrait at his office in Dallas on Monday, May 9, 2022. Urban Specialists is a nonprofit organization aimed at keeping kids out of urban violence. When Lucky was 14 he was a gang leader at Frazier Courts to protect his neighborhood from a rival neighborhood, Park Row. He was sentenced to prison a few years later and decided he didn’t want that life anymore.
A critical component of crime reduction is also criminal justice reform, said Alice Marie Johnson, who spent 21 years in prison after receiving a life sentence for a first-time drug offense.
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