The Dallas Police Department saw a drop in violent crime in 2024 by implementing proven strategies to proactively fight crime in Texas.

Interim Chief of Police Michael Igo told Fox News Digital that its violent crime reduction efforts resulted in both fewer incidents and fewer victims throughout 2024.

“In 2021, we employed criminologists from the University of Texas San Antonio, and we implemented a crime plan that was based really on three different phases or three different strategies,” he said. “One was hot spot policing. The next strategy was Place Network Investigations, commonly known as PNIs. And the third piece of that was focus on deterrence.”

Dallas is one of two cities among the country’s largest dozen cities, along with Texas neighbor Fort Worth, that is led by a Republican mayor.

“We provided services, whether it was job service, drug rehabilitation services, and try to get them to remove themselves from that crime element,” he said.

In 2024, Dallas recorded 183 homicides. (Fox News)

By the numbers

The Dallas Police Department reported an 8.2% decrease in violent crime across the city in 2024, including a 26% reduction in murders compared to the previous year.

The decline in homicides represents 65 fewer murder victims than in 2023, bringing the city’s murder rate to its lowest level since before the pandemic, according to data released by DPD. 

“When you start saying 26% reduction in murders, but then you say that’s 65 less people that died this year in Dallas,” Council Member Cara Mendelsohn said, according to the Dallas Observer. “That’s incredible!”