expand the initiative<\/a> into Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin, deploying what he called \u201cintelligence-driven operations\u201d focused on repeat violent offenders.<\/p>\nAbbott launched the Houston task force months after signing a package of bail reform laws that he said would help keep violent repeat offenders behind bars.<\/p>\n
He has described the initiative as a partnership between DPS and local and federal law enforcement agencies. Dallas police and U.S. marshals have said the DPS task force would build on repeat-offender work already underway in North Texas.<\/p>\n
Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux has said he supports Abbott’s directive.<\/p>\n
Exact details of how the DPS effort will fit into existing operations in\u00a0D-FW remain unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Abbott delivered his remarks in a news conference in Arlington, where he promoted his public safety plan for the next legislative session as part of his reelection campaign. The Republican\u00a0his seeking a fourth term.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also pushed for creating a statewide prosecutor\u2019s office, a proposal aimed at district attorneys he says are not aggressively prosecuting violent crime.<\/p>\n
“I realize we got 254 counties in the state of Texas. I would bet about 250 of them have\u00a0DAs that are doing a good job,” Abbott said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under Abbott’s plan, the office would be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Asked about the hypothetical office’s budget, Abbott said the details have yet to be worked out with the state Legislature. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“But conceivably we’re going to need sufficient resources to step in,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2013 Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that the presence of state troopers in North Texas will grow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-313021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}