Homicides and aggravated assaults were up in Dallas in January. The city has reported a drop in violent crime over the last two years.
"Homicides are up 9.52%, and what that translates to is 2 more victims than we had through January of last year," said Dallas Police Major Jason Scoggins at a meeting of the Dallas Public Safety Committee on Monday.In addition to homicides, aggravated assaults were also up nearly 15% in January compared to the same month last year.
"If you look at the month of January, we had our lowest incident count as it pertains to aggravated assaults, homicides and robbery incidents that we've had in 5 years, unfortunately we've had several incidents, one shooting incident equaled 19 victims and, as Major Soggins pointed out, 6 shooting incidents equated to 76 victims," Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia explained.
The police chief said the city is continuing its strategy of increased police presence in the highest crime areas of the city, which it refers to as grids.
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