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City address: 61 homicides, police bonuses and a push to expand 'Anaya's law'
Summary
Unidentified Speaker reported 61 homicides in 2025 (unchanged from the prior year), said violent crime fell more than 25%, announced recruitment and retention bonuses for Montgomery Police Department that could total $10,000 per officer annually for up to three years as funding allows, and called for expanding Anaya's law to keep repeat violent offenders jailed while cases proceed.
Unidentified Speaker reported that Montgomery ended 2025 with 61 homicides—"61 lives lost"—the same total as the prior year and stressed that count is "61, too many." He said public-safety trends were mixed: violent crime fell by more than 25% and nonviolent crime fell by more than 12%, while nonfatal shootings were down 14% and overall crime declined about 15% citywide.
The speaker framed those numbers as progress that still leaves work to do. "We ended the year with the exact number, that we had the prior year. 61 lives lost and that's 61, too many," he said, while…
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