WFAA Admits Blowing Car Wash Crime Story, Sorta Kinda, But OK!

Hats off, thank you, sincere gratitude, honest admiration, respect and kudos to WFAA Channel 8 for admitting publicly they were totally full of it Nov. 15 in their story about the famous notorious car wash on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South Dallas. WFAA reporters David Goins and David…

Former Dallas Cop Found Not Guilty in Genevive Dawes’ Death

A former Dallas Police Department officer was found not guilty Thursday of charges related to a 2017 shooting in which he killed a woman at an Old East Dallas apartment complex. After deliberating for two days, a Dallas County jury acquitted Christopher Hess, 42, of a single count of aggravated…

Statue at DMA Is Just One of Nepal’s Many Pillaged Works

When a centuries-old bronze statue now on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art was stolen from a Hindu temple in Nepal 36 years ago, it became one of hundreds of ancient cultural artifacts that have been illegally removed from the country over the last six decades. Since the 1950s,…

DPD Disciplines 22 Cops After 3-Year Investigation into Vice Unit

The Dallas Police Department’s multi-year investigation into its Vice Unit is over, the department announced Wednesday. Twenty-two officers have been disciplined, according to DPD Chief Renee Hall, and face punishments ranging from a written reprimand to suspension. The department did not fire any officers, and no officers were charged with…

City Coughs Up 414 Pages of 911 Calls from Car Wash Begging Cops to Come

Study after study blames violence and social dysfunction in poor, racially segregated neighborhoods on a roster of causes, from extreme poverty to environmental pollution to segregation itself, but the elected leadership of old South Dallas has insisted for 15 years that their crime problems are caused by a car wash…

DPD Got More Than 900 Calls About Gunfire this New Year’s Eve

This year, as in past years, the Dallas Police Department asked revelers to refrain from celebratory gunfire because it’s illegal, dangerous and punishable by a fine and jail time. But, between 10:00 p.m. December 31, 2019 and 2:00 a.m. January 1, 2020, DPD recorded 933 calls reporting random gunfire – 16 more than during the same period last New Year’s Eve.

Antwaun Woods Is Latest Cowboy to Have Stupid Run-In with Frisco Police

Nineteen months after former Cowboy Terrance Williams’ head-over-handlebars performance, another of Jerry Jones’ finest has taken a star turn in a Frisco Police Department video. This time around, it’s injured defensive tackle Antwaun Woods, busted by FPD for pot possession, tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia. The story,…