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The shrinking department is down to 3,252 officers, well below the desired 3,500. The force hopes to hire 449 officers this year to make up for attrition. Council wants police staffing to average three officers per 1,000 residents.
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The officer, whose name has not been released, went to the Breckinridge Point Apartments near Renner Road and North Star Road around 7 p.m. in response to a disturbance call. After being shot the 37-year-old officer was rushed to Medical City Plano but died from his injuries. It’s believed he was shot in the neck. More Here.
Read More →Advanced Technology International (ATI), manufacturer of gun stocks and firearm accessories, is now shipping the ATI Ruger AR-22 Stock System for the Ruger 10/22 platform.
Read More →A five-year effort by the police department and city to remove Dallas from the top slot on an annual list of large U.S. cities with the highest crime rate is paying off, as San Antonio took the top slot this year, the Dallas Morning News reports.
Read More →Pughes told the City Council's public safety committee that the department is down to a nearly critical level of 3,077 officers. That's the smallest force the city has had in about 10 years. Another 100 would-be officers are training in the police academy.
Read More →A former officer with the Dallas Police Department has been acquitted in the shooting death of 21-year-old Genevive Dawesin 2017.
Read More →The Austin (TX) Police Department suspended a detective they say posted inappropriate comments on his alias Facebook page about the fatal shooting of a naked unarmed teen.
Read More →Lt. Regina Smith has been on administrative leave since November, after she appeared in a video as rapper "Lucille Baller." Smith owned music production company Big Rush In and appeared on that website in uniform.
Read More →A lieutenant in the Dallas Police Department who goes by the name "Lucille Baller" when she promotes herself as a recording artist promises to shoot anyone who messes with her in a rap song that was posted on her website.
Read More →Temple F. Bowley saw Tippit dead on an Oak Cliff street on Nov. 22, 1963 and used the officer's radio to report the shooting at the hand of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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