Crime & Police

The police department is seeing some success with its crime reduction plan, but that doesn’t mean things are rosy, especially when compared to other cities.

The latest batch of frauds aimed at Dallas Water Utilities users mirrors earlier rounds carried out in July and September 2022.

The North Texas cities hope that the new technology will give first responders the best information to serve residents and save lives.

After Happy Hippies was raided this week by police, the store owner says he did nothing wrong.

Cruise Robo Taxis will begin operating in downtown Dallas soon. Does the city have a plan for how police will deal with them yet?

There’s no shortage of oddball developments in the case of the Texas Attorney General’s pending impeachment trial.

In recent days, officers with Dallas police and other North Texas law enforcement agencies have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

There hasn’t been a street takeover in Dallas in months. But local and state police are still dishing out tickets and arrests for stunt driving and street races.

In August, residents and City Council members will weigh in on the proposed budget, which covers public safety, housing and homelessness, and much more.

Information from some of Dallas’ 13,400 employees may have been compromised during a cyber attack against the city earlier this year.

The Lone Star State continues its quest to become the state with the most apprehended insurrectionists. The latest is a man who ratted himself out online.

A pair of North Texas teenagers were federally charged in connection to a string of local fentanyl poisonings and deaths.

Dallasites are waiting longer than ever before for police to arrive after they’ve been called.

Each of the bodies were discovered at different time in the same area, near the alleged killer’s home.

The Dallas Police doesn’t have current data, which includes the summer, when a large chunk of aggressive driving problems occur.

The city of Dallas is asking people to refrain from giving to panhandlers, and other notices featuring similar framing have cropped up throughout D-FW.

Recent reports note that children have been neglected at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center in West Dallas.

The longtime officer was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2019.

Although the city says its ‘97% restored’ after the cyber attack, court cases, permitting and more services are still not running smoothly.

Local law enforcement is still investigating the deaths as autopsy and toxicology results are pending in two of the cases.

We investigated why some North Texans are searching online for signs of a supposed spree murderer in Big D.

The department hopes officers will be able to respond quicker to more serious crimes under the new requirement.