The police chief overseeing one of America's most dangerous cities has revealed how his department has slashed violent crime rates in recent years. Dallas Police Department's Interim Chief Michael Igo said he mapped the city out in grids and honed in on crime 'hotspots', while also rolling out deterrence programs.
The Texas city is in the top three percent of America's most dangerous cities, according to data analysis from Neighborhood Scout. Dallas is wracked by 8, violent crimes each year on average, and 53, property-related crimes.
Its rate of 6. But Igo said his department has been turning this around, and saw a drop in - though the official figures have not yet been released.
And the third piece of that was focus on deterrence. The police chief overseeing one of America's most dangerous cities, Dallas pictured has revealed how his department has slashed violent crime rates in recent years.
Dallas Police Department's Interim Chief Michael Igo pictured said he mapped the city out in grids and honed in on crime 'hotspots', while also rolling out deterrence programs. Igo said the city began by gathering intelligence on where violent crime tended to occur, and mapped Dallas out via byyard grids over areas police identified as having disproportionate crime rates. And in these grids, what we found out was where a majority of our violent crime was occurring.
