DALLAS (1080 KRLD)- Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and Police Chief Eddie Garcia on Monday unveiled a new plan for combating domestic violence in the city.
Under the plan, which will be monitored by the City Council's Public Safety Committee, the Dallas Police Department will:
1. Increase the number of domestic violence detectives.
2. Reorganize the domestic violence unit to allow detectives to specialize in intimate partner violence.
3. Resume home visits — a previous policing strategy that had been discontinued — to check in on victims and alleged abusers.
4. Immediately pair an intimate-partner family violence detective with a homicide detective on murder cases with family violence ties.
5. Work with the U.S. Attorney's office to prosecute offenders on firearms charges, if warranted.
In 2020, felony domestic violence assaults increased by 13.6% in the city compared to 2019, which also saw an increase versus 2018. So far this year, those assaults have increased by less than 1% over 2020's pace.
Mayor Johnson last year asked the city's Domestic Violence Task Force to make a new set of recommendations to help reduce the crimes. The mayor called for the implementation of those ideas during his annual State of the City speech in December 2020.
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