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  Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Tased, Threatened Handcuffed Man, Arrest Warrant Says

  January 17 at 2:48 p.m.

  Newly released documents paint a disturbing picture of the incident that lead to the arrest of a Dallas County Sheriff's Department deputy Thursday evening. Deputy Austin Palmer is charged with assault causing bodily injury and official oppression, both Class A misdemeanors, after he allegedly tased and threatened a handcuffed man...

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  City Coughs Up 414 Pages of 911 Calls from Car Wash Begging Cops to Come

  January 13 at 4 a.m.

  Study after study blames violence and social dysfunction in poor, racially segregated neighborhoods on a roster of causes, from extreme poverty to environmental pollution to segregation itself, but the elected leadership of old South Dallas has insisted for 15 years that their crime problems are caused by a car wash...

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  Missing Records, Lax Security and Ignored Complaints: City Audit Skewers DPD Handling of Alleged Misconduct

  January 10 at 4 a.m.

  The Dallas Police Department is promising reform in the wake of a new city audit, which uncovered widespread faults in the department's processes for investigating and addressing misconduct complaints. Last year, auditors found hundreds of inexplicably missing records in an internal database that tracks misconduct complaints. Internal Affairs Division officials...

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  DPD Got More Than 900 Calls About Gunfire this New Year’s Eve

  January 3 at 4 a.m.

  This year, as in past years, the Dallas Police Department asked revelers to refrain from celebratory gunfire because it's illegal, dangerous and punishable by a fine and jail time. But, between 10:00 p.m. December 31, 2019 and 2:00 a.m. January 1, 2020, DPD recorded 933 calls reporting random gunfire – 16 more than during the same period last New Year's Eve.

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  Mayor Has ‘Concerns’ About New DPD Crime Reduction Plan

  January 3 at 4 a.m.

  The Dallas Police Department promised to implement a "data-driven approach to reduce violent crime" and laid out crime-reduction goals for the upcoming year in a report released Thursday. Mayor Eric Johnson demanded the report be released by the end of 2019, a particularly violent year in Dallas. In a statement released...

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  Federal Judge Found No Pattern of Official Abuse in Botham Jean Murder

  Monday, December 30, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Let’s get this one straight before it rolls away from us. A certain amount of misrepresentation is going on about the meaning of a federal judge’s recent action dismissing the city as a defendant in a civil lawsuit arising from the Amber Guyger/Botham Jean murder case. This is not a...