Crime-ridden Texas city reveals how they slashed violent offense rates
The police chief who supervises one of the most dangerous cities in America has revealed how his department has reduced violent crime figures in recent years.
The interim chef Michael Igo van Dallas said that he mapped out the city in the grilles and tightened the ‘hotspots’ of crime, while also rolling off deterioration programs.
The city of Texas is in the top three percent of the most dangerous cities in America, according to data analysis of Neighbor reconnaissance.
Dallas is on average on average with 8,775 violent crimes and 53,325 property -related crimes.
The rate of 6.74 violent crimes per 1,000 inhabitants places it far above the average for Texas as a whole, which has an average of 4.06 violent crimes per 1,000 people.
But IGO said his department turned this around and saw a decrease in 2024 – although the official figures have not yet been released.
“In 2021 we worked criminologists from the University of Texas San Antonio, and we implemented a crime plan that was really based on three different phases or three different strategies,” he said Fox News Digital.
“One was hotspot police. The next strategy was Place Network Investigations, better known as PNIs. And the third part of that was the focus on deterrence. ‘
The police chief who supervises one of America’s most dangerous cities, has revealed Dallas (photo) how his department has reduced violent crime rates in recent years

The Interim chef Michael Igo van Dallas, Michael Igo (photo), said he mapped the city in schedules and the hotspots’ of crime, while he also rolled off deterioration programs
IGO said the city started collecting information about where violent crime tended to appear and to map Dallas via 300-BY-300-Yard grilles about areas that identified the police as a disproportionate crime figures.
“We worked on that data on compiling a crime plan where our schedules were identified,” he said Fox.
“We had what we called tag areas, where the majority of our crime was in the city. And in these rasters we found out where a majority of our violent crime took place.
“The starting point was that we took the data, and we placed a squadron car, with its lights, in an area with a high violence for only 15 minutes.”
He added that the Dallas police worked to concentrate on people who have “shown the most tendency to commit crimes in those areas.”
The Department has also collaborated with non-governmental organizations to encourage community to deteriorate programs.
Dallas became a Republican city in 2023, when the mayor Eric Johnson changed his political faith.
Johnson, 47, was chosen in 2019 as mayor after more than a decade as a democrat in the Texas house of delegates.
Although mayors in Texas are not bound in Texas, the switch of Johnson was a boost for Republicans in the state that had lost more than a decade terrain in Major Lone Star cities.
The Dallas Policing Update comes after the Sheriff supervises the city that is notorious because he is Florida’s ‘murder capital’, revealed how his department recently also reduced murder figures – but through various methods.

The sheriff who supervises Jacksonville (photo), the city that is notorious because he is Florida’s ‘murder capital’, has revealed how his department has reduced the murder rates in recent years
Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters has said that the opposition to ‘defending the police’ and the number of officers have been upheld, have been the key to fight murders in the city.
The city of Noordoost – Florida was given the gloomy name after the murder rates had risen in recent years – until 2023, when the police started to make a breakthrough.
About 134 murders were included in the city in 2022, a figure that fell to 122 in 2023, before by no less than 50 percent in just one year to 59 in 2024.
De Sheriff said that the total of 59 murders of last year was the lowest since 1995, when there were 86 murders in the city that are now home to nearly a million people.
“We have long had the bad reputation to be the murder capital of Florida, which I hate,” Waters told Fox News Digital. ‘I don’t like it at all – our city is much more than that. ‘
Waters said that receiving sufficient financing for his strength in recent years was the key to their success in combating violent crime.
“As the city grows, this agency must grow,” he said.