The Mayor of Dallas said the "state of our city is strong," citing year‑to‑date 2025 crime statistics and promising continued emphasis on public safety.

"Yes. Dallas is safer," the mayor said, pointing to 10 months of 2025 data he summarized during the address: burglaries down 10 percent, robberies down 11 percent, aggravated assaults down 14 percent and murders down 24 percent. He credited a new public‑private partnership for downtown with contributing to a nearly 40 percent drop in aggravated assaults in the Central Business District.

The mayor announced the Dallas City Council's public safety committee, "led by Kara Mendelson," will work this term to create a new comprehensive public safety policy that "sets a vision for the years ahead." He said the policy "will guarantee that our war on violent crime will continue as long as there are victims of crime in this city." The address also named a task force to build a new police academy and said Tonelle Atkins will chair that effort to deploy state and local funding toward construction and training.

The mayor thanked Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire Rescue personnel and singled out Police Chief Daniel Como for "his leadership and for welcoming the largest academy class in years." No new ordinance, budget vote, or formal council action was recorded in the speech text itself; the remarks described future committee work and a task force assignment rather than final decisions.

What comes next: the mayor said the council committee will draft policy and the appointed task force will advance the academy project; the speech did not provide a timetable or implementation dates for the policy or academy.