Crime & Police

A special unit in Dallas has been responding to mental health calls for nearly six years, and it’s been working.

The Dallas Police Department has sent all of its backlogged sexual assault kits out for testing in 2023. But that’s not the case for all of North Texas.

Police in both Dallas and Tarrant Counties are still piecing together the grisly details of how a driver hit and killed a man in Dallas on Saturday night.

Strip clubs and escort services, as well as adult video stores in Dallas, will now have to close in the early morning hours. Not everyone is happy.

Part of a startling trend, this is just the latest IT failure Dallas County has faced in 2023.

Four people, including a 1-year-old boy, were killed on Royce Drive in Dallas on Dec. 3. Texas leads the nation in 2023 in mass shootings.

“It is never a good day when we see that happening anywhere,” said Stacy Cushing with the Anti-Defamation League.

Plano police say a local business has been dabbling in prostitution after finding some graphic online reviews of the alleged sex workers.

The team has been working to make the city safer in some of the most crime-heavy areas in Dallas, but their contract expired in April.

The proposal will likely be rejected, but more people are thinking about a meaningful moment in Dallas history and where a Santos Rodriguez Road should go.

Members of the Community Police Oversight Board are “adversarial,” according to the president of the Dallas Police Association. One says she’s just for civil rights.

Murder is still up in Dallas but other violent crime has gone down. The city’s police chief says more officers are needed to keep moving in the right direction.

State Rep. Stephanie Klick, a Republican from Fort Worth, wants more regulation of hemp-derived products to ensure they’re safe and staying out of the hands of children.

Gun buyback programs can get guns off the streets, but there’s little evidence to suggest they work to reduce gun violence.

Hackers behind another cyber attack in Dallas say they’ll release private data if they aren’t paid soon. It’s just the latest Dallas area IT nightmare.

The latest shop to be raided for allegedly selling THC and marijuana products is in Killeen. The shop claims all of its products are legal hemp.

Three people were injured during a shooting at the state fair in Dallas on Saturday. A suspect is behind bars, but gun control advocates say there’s more work to be done.

The State Fair of Texas will reopen on Sunday at 2 p.m. following a shooting Saturday night that injured 3 people.

The signs were erected in Dallas ahead of the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s slaying, but some aren’t so sure about the slogan’s effectiveness.

The ranking places Dallas at the back of the pack in this year’s list of safest cities. We fell behind other Texas metros like Austin, Houston and El Paso.

A Chime customer claims that he lost more than $6,500 when his phone and wallet were stolen in Dallas. He hopes his story serves as a cautionary tale for those who use the fintech company’s app.

If confidence in the pension fund dwindles, the city could see a repeat of what happened in 2016 and 2017: a mass exodus of police and firefighters.