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The article said the problem was due to the city spending its money on land development deals. Not sure what that means exactly, but I assumed Dallas's problem was the same as Houston's: they can't afford the pensions for all the retired city employees.

When I was in New York City the last time I noticed that literally there is a police officer standing on every corner. I thought no wonder the crime rate is lower, its not the gun control, its all the police officers. (NYC has 50,000 police officers if you add up all the groups and 8.6 million people)

Here in Houston, I will go days without seeing a police car. I assumed the Houston police are patrolling the rough neighborhoods.

In my neighborhood we rely on paid constable patrols and they handle all the calls as we call them first. (Houston has about 5,000 police officers with a population of 2.3 million)

Dallas has 2500 police officers and 1.3 million people, really not much different than in Houston.

Its good there are so few Bad Guys. Or maybe Texas basically relies on the safety provided by its armed homeowners and Licensed Concealed Carry to keep the peace.