This Week's Top Stories:

Fatal Shooting Leaves 24-Year-Old Dead, Murder Continues to Rise

Another murder just north of Deep Ellum. Officers didn’t locate the body until morning; the victim didn’t have a chance. The suspect has now been arrested, but with every new victim, city leadership just gains more blood on their hands while residents suffer the loss of the lives and futures of their loved ones.

Dallas Residents Are Ignored By the City Council, Frustratio n Builds

Short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb provide little to no accountability for oper-ators, who are increasingly comprised of corporations with no presence in Dallas. The city’s inability to stop the proliferation of party houses results in more disturbance, noise, and even crime in once quiet neighborhoods.

Man Shot After Violent Encounter With Strip Club Security

Minor interactions spiral into violence because criminals realize — especially in Dallas — there's a decent chance they might not be punished. This time the perpetrator was wrong, but they often aren't. Many Dallas residents victimized by criminals will never see justice served because of the inaction of city leaders and the DA who releases them back into the streets.

Drive-by Shooting Wounded 10-Year-Old i n South Dallas

Last Wednesday afternoon around 1pm, a 10-year-old was wounded in a drive-by shooting along South Belt Line Road, the perpetrators are still at large. Criminals are so emboldened by the DA's refusal to prosecute that they operate in broad daylight, now this young child must live with the consequences.

Dallas' Housing First Initiative Does Not Work

"Now that 20 years have passed, the results of the Housing First experiment are in, and it hasn’t worked. Nationwide street homelessness has increased by nearly a fourth and here in Dallas there are around 4,410 homeless individuals on the streets on any given night, an astounding 92% increase just from 2019."

"In Dallas, the city council has allocated millions to this failed policy initiative, most recently $72 million in 2021, and homelessness has only gotten worse throughout the city."

Click the link below to read the KDS' full article:

The Dallas Express - Housing First Does Not Work

Weekly Camp Update:

As a city we need to make it easier to get off the streets, and much harder to stay on the streets — its the only way to solve the homelessness and vagrancy problems.

Giving cash to vagrants and panhandlers only enables and hurts them by supporting their addictions. We must make them get the help they deserve and stop enabling the destructive cycle they live in.

Each week, Keep Dallas Safe takes a trip around the city's districts to document encampments with the purpose of informing the city of their locations, and advocate for the enforcement of the laws protecting residents and businesses from the problems these illegal camps produce.

We currently track more than 100 encampments around Dallas. Here are the top 3 highlighted this week:

"Couch Potato" Camp

Location: Councilman Chad West's District 1

This location has earned the title of "Couch potato" camp because those living here lounge on the couch all day instead of fixing their situation.

As you can see from the photo, the homeless at this camp have managed to move an entire couch under the highway. The homeless population in Dallas knows that the city will not bother them, so furnished encampments like this are becoming more common.

The "Dallas Fly Trap" Camp

Location: Councilman Omar Narvaez's District 6

This location earned the title of "Dallas Fly Trap" camp because since being so undisturbed by any enforcement officials, it is now overgrown with vegetation and the camp itself has grown to become a wild fly trap.

This camp is located right off of Harry Hines, an area where residents and business owners have recently reported vagrants scaring off customers and threatening their safety.

"Blockade" Camp

Location: Councilman Omar Narvaez's District 6

This location earned the title "Blockade" camp because as you can clearly see from the photo, traversing along this sidewalk is impossible.

Homeless and vagrants need our help, but they do not have the right to use our collective sidewalks and overpasses as their personal dwellings. Officials must enforce the city’s ban on urban camping.

If you see an encampment in your area, please notify your district councilman with the date and camp location via email.

Chad West, District 1	Chad.West@dallascityhall.com
Jesse Moreno, District 2	Jesse.Moreno@dallascityhall.com
Casey Thomas, II, District 3	richard.soto@dallascityhall.com
Carolyn King Arnold,District 4	Phil.foster@dallascityhall.co m
Jaime Resendez, District 5	jaime.resendez@dallascityhall.com
Omar Narvaez, District 6	Omar.Narvaez@dallascityhall.com
Adam Bazaldua, District 7	Adam.Bazaldua@dallascityhall.com
Tennell Atkins, District 8	maria.salazar2@dallascityhall.com
Paula Blackmon, District 9	paula.blackmon@dallascityhall.com
Adam McGough, District 10	adam.mcgough@dallascityhall.com
Jaynie Schultz, District 11	sophia.figueroa@dallascityhall.com
Cara Mendelsohn, District 12	cara.mendelsohn@dallascityhall.com
Gay Donnell Willis, District 13	gay.willis@dallascityhall.com
Paul E. Ridley, District 14	paul.ridley@dallascityhall.com
To Report an Encampment:	Dial 3-1-1 or Call: (214) 670-3111

Mission Statement:

Keep Dallas Safe exists to address crime and homelessness in Dallas with the goal of transforming Dallas into the safest large city in Texas for residents and businesses. We aim to have a City Council that prioritizes crime rate which directly determines the quality of life in Dallas. We do this by fighting against the "defund the police" movement, holding accountable our city leaders' efforts towards lowering district crime rates, and highlighting our city's homelessness problems by pushing for enforcement of the prohibition of urban camping.

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