Jacob Vaughn , a former Brookhaven College journalism student, has written for the Observer since , first as clubs editor. More recently, he's been in the news section as a staff writer covering City Hall, the Dallas Police Department and whatever else editors throw his way. Contact: Jacob Vaughn. Follow: Twitter: officialjacobv.
Don't Miss Out. Join Today. Sign Up. I Support Learn More. Latest Stories. More ». Sign Up Now No Thanks. Become a member and go ad-free! But "it wasn't as prevalent as it is now," he told me last week, noting that pimps occasionally keep watch from the monstrous pedestrian bridge at the Walnut Hill-Harry Hines intersection.
Watson said DPD saw a sharp uptick in prostitution in April, after which some 20 Harry Hines-area businesses formed a crime watch. These are somebody's daughters, mothers, sisters.
It blows my mind. Northwest officers spend a few hours a week on sex-worker patrol, but service calls come first — and cops in my part of town have their hands full. Last month the City Council was told violent crime's way up in northwest Dallas — by almost 34 percent , a startling number considering most parts of this city have seen double-digit declines since this time last year.
And Northwest has 40 fewer officers than it had in Every time TV news reports on the return of Harry Hines streetwalkers , you hear the same thing from northwest Dallas business owners: This is all because Chief U. Renee Hall broke up vice and scattered its 20 officers to different departments during an investigation into the unit's practices. Cops concur. The chief said there were "only 22 vice officers, and realistically we knew they could not handle all the complaints in the city.
It's always been a joint operation between patrol and the vice unit, but when we shut down vice, per se, we immediately stood up narcotics to do vice operations. Hall said the vice unit will return "by the end of the summer.
Robert Wilonsky , Special Contributor. Robert Wilonsky, former city columnist for The Dallas Morning News, is communications director for Heritage Auctions and a frequent contributor to these pages. By signing up you agree to our privacy policy. A year ago, Cohen built a razor wire fence he thought would help. But he says police ignore his repeated complaints to address his neighborhood. The department has also formed a business crime watch in the area in which you refer to address business owner concerns and to collect information with respect to street level prostitution.
While the Vice and Narcotics operation successfully carried out yesterday will not eliminate the problem of street level prostitution, the Dallas Police Department remains dedicated to reducing prostitution, illegal gambling and illicit massage businesses along with other vice related issues about which our residents are concerned.
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