Senior Corporal Greg Phillips of the Dallas Police Department was our guest speaker at Tuesday’s meeting.  Officer Phillips encouraged neighborhood awareness of crime statistics and referenced dallasareawatch.com and dallaspolice.net as resources.  These websites make crime incident data available to the public. The City of Dallas uploads the data onto their Dallas Police Department web site every morning about 6:00am. The data consists of public information about crimes reported the previous day as well as updates to earlier crime incidents. In commenting on the current Amber Guyger situation, Officer Phillips made it clear that the Dallas police are trained to stop a threat, not to kill. The City of Dallas recently provided a significant raise to its officers, making police salaries competitive with surrounding cities.  Officer Phillips says that this will certainly assist in reducing the current shortage of officers.

October 1 2019.Exchange