Dallas police officials presented data to the city's Public Safety Commission on Tuesday showing an overall 13.30% decrease in violent crime.
DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department administrator gave a presentation to the Dallas Public Safety Committee Tuesday morning showing an overall downward trend in violent crime across the city.
Data through July shows violent crimes in the city are down 13.30%, and according to a chart provided by DPD, that number has continued to trend downward since January 2021. It includes incident counts as well as victim counts, which are also trending downward.
Two major contributing factors to the decline in violent crime were declines in aggravated assault and homicide. According to DPD data, aggravated assault was down 17.99% and homicide was down 21.29%. There was one more domestic violence homicide compared to the same time last year.
Robbery was also down 3.93%, which translates to 54 fewer victims than July of last year. Personal robberies were also down 9.41%, but store robberies increased significantly by about 20.88%. DPD Deputy Chief Steven Williams said 37% of these store robberies were shoplifting incidents that escalated into robbery.
The data also shows gun crime victims are down from the same time last year, with a 28.1% decrease in high-risk neighborhoods and a 13.5% decrease citywide.
Williams said crime and emergency call volumes have improved in all nine of DPD's current hotspot focus areas, which police have identified as areas at highest risk for criminal activity under DPD's Violent Crime Reduction Plan.
