New York City has funded an additional $200 million to the New York Police Department. Los Angeles gave its forces a 3% boost, and even places like the city Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., once ran as mayor, Burlington, Vermont, went from chopping the police budget to approving $10,000 bonuses for police to linger on the job, according to the Times.
Even liberal cities in deep-red Texas were cutting police funding, yet now Austin's budget has been jacked up to record heights, and Dallas Democrat Mayor Eric Johnson, who is Black, has moved to expand the size of the police force.
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"As an African American male who came of age in the 1990s, I remember a lot of people whose lives were devastated by violence," Johnson told the Times. "I don't want to go back there."
As the city roiled with demonstrations and last year's calls for defunding police, a surge of violent crime pointed to a 25% rise in homicides to 252, the Times reported.
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Though now, after Mayor Johnson wrote over the summer, "Dallas needs more police officers, the city has undertaken a 'hot spot' policing method, focusing forces where the most violent crime is occurring."
"When you talk about hot spots, these are still minority communities," Gerard Claiborne, 49, whose barbershop is in a predominantly Black neighborhood, told the Times. "I can't say his plan won't work. But it's a bigger fix that's needed."
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Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police movements attempted to defeat police focus on minority communities, yet hot spots do precisely the opposite.
"Hot spot policing is a polarizing subject, particularly in communities of color," Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia told the Times. "Nothing was working — we're on to something that seems to be working."
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Violent crime has fallen 6%, and homicides have slightly decreased, according to the report.
"Dallas stands out for the amount of investment that the local government is putting into the department," Major Cities Chiefs Association Executive Director Laura Cooper told the Times.