ccording to the Star-Telegram.<\/a> More homes have also been added over the years.<\/p>\nThe largest category shifted, too \u2014 from theft and larceny in the earlier years to vandalism more recently. There has been at least one aggravated assault reported every year going back to 2021, as far as the data set extends.<\/p>\n
Robby Carruthers, whose house and car were hit Friday, has rented in the neighborhood with his wife and two children since 2020. He said crime has grown worse every year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to stand my ground,\u201d Carruthers said. \u201cWe\u2019re not leaving. We\u2019re going to force these people to leave. This neighborhood is a good neighborhood. My kid rides his bike to school every day. I\u2019m not leaving. I\u2019m not going to run.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s being done about security?<\/p>\n
City Council member Chris Jamieson, who represents District 10 and sits on the Crime Control and Prevention District Board of Directors, said more patrols are on the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a member of the CCPD Board of Directors, keeping our neighborhoods safe through proactive law enforcement is my highest priority,\u201d Jamieson said in a written statement. \u201cI am actively collaborating with the Fort Worth Police Department leadership to expand visible patrols and step up security presence throughout the Sendera Ranch area.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sendera Ranch Homeowners Association is also weighing the installation of Flock cameras, according to Carruthers. Those cameras photograph vehicles passing through an area and retain the images for 30 days in a database that law enforcement can access. Many homeowners already run their own doorbell and rooftop cameras.<\/p>\n
Jamieson supports adding Flock cameras, saying they would give police \u201ca critical tool to track criminal activity, deter bad actors and prevent future incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n
The homeowners association declined to comment on the rising crime and the solutions it is considering.<\/p>\n
A divided conversation among neighbors<\/p>\n
Not every family agrees on the cause \u2014 or the fix. Online, some residents have blamed Housing Choice Vouchers, commonly known as Section 8, for the shift.<\/p>\n
Sendera Ranch resident Tristen Robinson pushed back, saying that framing sweeps up good people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese things are happening, and it\u2019s terrible and inexcusable,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cBut there\u2019s also innocent children, innocent Black people living in this neighborhood who are being lumped into this violence and the crime that\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robinson said she worries a neighborhood-organized patrol could lead to someone calling police on her younger brother without cause.<\/p>\n
What parents can do now<\/p>\n
For families weighing their morning routines, the practical takeaways from the reporting are concrete: response times from far north Fort Worth are longer than in other parts of the city, home and vehicle cameras are already dense in Sendera Ranch, and both HOA-level Flock cameras and expanded police patrols are on the table.<\/p>\n
Neighbor Daniel Bryant, who lives next door to where the shooting happened, said he and his wife are among those thinking about moving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what this world is coming to, you know, in our own front yard,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cI told my wife, that hit pretty close to home right there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 10,000 homes planned, Sendera Ranch is one of the largest developments in the Northwest school district. M.L.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-397119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397119","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=397119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}