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Dallas murder rate drops 12% in 2025

There were 43 fewer murders in Dallas last year. It’s a number the Dallas police chief is using to highlight a decrease in violent crime, but he also emphasized there’s still work to be done.
Dallas police told City Council that violent crime fell 12% in 2025 despite a staffing shortage, pushing back against Gov. Greg Abbott's recent public safety claims.
The newest statistics about downtown crime are a mixed bag, which will make the challenge of re-imagining the city center’s ...
Violent crime fell for the fifth year in a row last year in Dallas, police officials said Monday, including the city’s lowest homicide count since 2015. Dallas’ figures, presented to the City ...
Nearly a week after the governor said a failure of Dallas leadership led AT&T to move out of downtown, Police Chief David Comeaux is speaking out with statistics on how Dallas has seen a drop in ...
The Dallas Police Department has worked to hire more officers since Proposition U was passed by voters in 2024. The Dallas Police Department reports violent crime in the city continues to decline with ...
Homicide rates are at their lowest in decades in most U.S. cities, according to a new study from the nonpartisan Council on ...