Dallas reduces crime

 Fox News:

While other major cities across the U.S. have been experiencing record spikes in violent crime, Dallas, Texas had seen an about 8.5% reduction by the end of last month.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a Democrat, told Fox News Digital he attributed that success to three things – a strong police chief, having "a budget that reflects public safety being your city's top priority," and ensuring there’s "community buy-in" for crime reduction.

The city budget included funding to "improve officer morale" by paying officers market-rate salaries to ensure they’re not getting paid less than officers in surrounding communities and restoring the police overtime budget that was slashed from the previous budget.
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As the outgoing police commissioner in New York City and others have recognized criminals feel increasingly "emboldened" when they know officers will not respond to crime, such as smash and grab robberies, Johnson affirmed the need for officers to maintain a presence in communities.

"It's important to have a presence, a police presence in your city, and it's important that criminals not get the impression that they can engage in illegal activities and there won’t be a police response," Johnson said. The budget also includes funding for new squad cars to have more personnel in the community to show that presence, as well as recruitment.

Following 2020’s already historically bloodied year, 12 major U.S. cities – all run by Democrats – have broken annual homicide records for 2021. For Texas, Austin was among those cities on the nationwide list, but contrastingly, Dallas’ fate is more optimistic, as crime is declining.

This year through Nov. 30, Dallas saw an 8.47% reduction in overall violent crime compared with last year, according to statistics from the violent crime reduction plan update presented last week to City Council’s Public Safety Committee. Murders are down by 12.23%, while total robberies also declined by 29.04%.
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The liberal mayor of Austin engaged in the idiotic defunding of police and the results were disastrous as murders and other crimes increased.  He was listening to BLM instead of the police and the results were black lives lost.  Dallas did the opposite and the results speak for themselves.

It should be obvious by now that no one should take crime-fighting advice from BLM.