DALLAS (KRLD) - Dallas City Council Member Carolyn King Arnold invited the community and religious leaders to Dallas City Hall for a meeting on crime in her south Dallas district. She says the increase in murder and other crimes in 2019 had an especially large impact on her constituents.
"If we're not number one, we're number two with violent crimes. I believe we had somewhere near 40 murders," Council Member Arnold said.
The meeting included several representatives of the Dallas Police Department, City Manager T.C. Broadnax, and neighborhood association leaders.
Arnold urged those at the meeting to get more involved with DPD and to work on the root causes of crime. "Why do you see an increase in burglary and breaking and entering? Why are they breaking and entering? Lack of jobs. No hope," she said. "The largest awakening, I guess, is for us to realize that we are under siege. We're losing families. We're losing African-American men. We're losing Hispanic men."
Arnold serves on the City Council's Public Safety Committee, which will review Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall's crime-reduction plan next week.
