{"id":140393,"date":"2025-08-12T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140393\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:01:11","slug":"proposed-city-budget-gives-boost-to-dallas-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140393\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed City Budget Gives Boost to Dallas Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under next year&#8217;s proposed city budget, the Dallas Police Department would see a nearly $40 million increase in funding as the agency plans to hire 350 new officers by fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> Everton Bailey Jr.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong> The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n<p>What to know<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Dallas\u2019 proposed $5.2 billion budget taps $758 million for the police department, up from $719 million adopted last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The city plans to hire 350 new police officers and raise starting pay to $81,232, with plans of reaching a 4,000-officer force by 2029.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The proposal boosts the Police and Fire Pension System contribution to $221 million this fall, with gradual annual increases aimed at full funding within 30 years.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under next year&#8217;s proposed city budget, the Dallas Police Department would see a nearly $40 million increase in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-140393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017344036242908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}