‘The City Knows This is a Crisis’: Public Safety Committee Bumps Up Police Hiring Goal
Staffing within the Dallas Police Department seems to be top of mind for the Dallas City Council. In Monday’s Public Safety Committee meeting, council members voted to raise the department’s recruitment goal from 250 officers to 325 in the current fiscal year.
City council committee wants to scale back Dallas police hiring goal amid push for more officers
The original proposal would have directed the city manager to boost the hiring goal from 250 new officers to 400 for the current fiscal year. But on Monday, the Dallas Public Safety Committee recommended a lower target of 325 new hires.
Dallas Public Safety Committee recommends new police officer hiring goal
"I've said before, you don't order a Dallas police officer off of Amazon," said Council Member Gay Donnell Willis of the difficulty of increasing DPD hiring numbers.
Dallas council members recommend increased hiring goals for new police officers
A Dallas City Council committee is recommending the city boost its hiring goals for cops this year despite warnings from the interim police chief the new benchmark could impact other areas of the department.
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Council member Cara Mendelsohn said while the city's population has grown over the last decade, its police force has shrunk.
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