Dallas Police Chief Hall has had a rough couple weeks and it is just got worse.
Amidst rising violent crime rates in the city of Dallas, now Chief Hall is being called out by the National Latino Law Enforcement Organization (LLEO), which is demanding her resignation.
Rising Crime Rates
The Dallas murder rate, if it stays on its current pace, is going to be the highest in more than a decade, shattering last years total of 196 homicides in Dallas.
Two of her most recent gaffes that have raised more than a few eyebrows were the blaming of “lack of opportunity” in the city for its crime and disbanding the vice unit.
Those crimes will now simply go unpunished in Dallas.
This has been working in conjunction with a DA that is no longer willing to prosecute non-violent theft cases of under $750.
Almost immediately after that policy was announced, Dallas started seeing more assaults and the common sense thinking is that non-violent crimes were turning into violent crimes specifically because criminals thought it was open season in Dallas for petty theft.
The DA clearly did not take into account the fact citizens would arm themselves and actually fight for their belongings.
She Must Go
When Chief Hall first took the job, she seemed like a decent pick.
She had positive community relations and the minority community felt as though it would have a continued voice at Police Headquarters.
That sentiment has since changed, at least somewhat, due to rising crime rates in a city that nets about 500 new residents every day.
With such massive expansion and more and more companies and small businesses moving to Dallas (so much for the argument of lack of opportunity), the city simply cannot afford to become the Chicago of the South.
LLEO Dallas Chapter President George Aranda says the honeymoon is over with Chief Hall and he wants her gone.
He stated, “We need to go in a new direction before this summer really takes into play.
“We need a new crime fighter here.”
Aranda pointed to several complaints from officers calling out Hall for her lack of leadership, using the disbanding of the vice unit as well over-disciplining some officers as examples.
He stated, “She fails to listen to our rank and file.
“She doesn’t want to take any advice from the organizations.
“We’re the pulse of the police department.”
Aranda also stated there were times that Chief Hall had either suspended or fired officers when he felt it would have provided a better teaching moment for the entire department.
Other minority groups in the city are pulling the race card, saying the motivation behind her hiring is racially motivated and they are quite happy with Chief Hall, she just needs to be given more time.
That is a tough argument to back, though, considering the former Chief of Police was Chief Brown, an African-American, who was very well-respected and generally like and supported by his fellow officers.
There were at times some grumblings about his measures to make the Department more transparent, but that is going to be expected in any administration.
Clearly, the honeymoon phase is over and with national attention now on Hall, she is going to have to deliver far better results than what the people of Dallas as well as her fellow officers have seen from her thus far.
Source: NBCDFW5
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