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Dallas committee narrows proposed police hiring increase, sends amended goal to mayor
Summary
The City of Dallas Public Safety Committee voted to amend a resolution on police staffing goals, setting a revised hiring target for fiscal year 2025 and forwarding the measure to the mayor for full council consideration.
The City of Dallas Public Safety Committee on Feb. 10 debated a proposal to raise the Dallas Police Department's hiring goal and voted to forward an amended target to the mayor for consideration by the full City Council.
Public Safety Committee Chair Moreno introduced an action item asking the council to direct the city manager to revise staffing goals to increase new police officer hires from 250 to 400 for fiscal year 2025 and to present budget amendments to support that increase. Chair Moreno said Dallas had 3,690 officers in 2021 while the city's population grew from about 1,223,000 to about 1,356,000 and that the department now lists roughly 3,168 officers, a decline of about 522 officers amid population growth.
"We simply do not have enough officers, and we're overworking the officers we have," Chair Moreno said, describing higher response times and lower resident satisfaction…
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