By Robert Wilonsky. As in: "Sis is back on the track, keeping it sexy in a cute Ivy Park athleisure wear outfit. My friend Candy doesn't have to go far to collect her stats. Except now I'm driving. And my year-old son knows what's up. Doesn't matter how hot or cold; doesn't matter how light or dark.
And on some nights, women are "in middle of the street, along the sidewalk. It's gotten crazy. Maybe it's the cheap hotels and apartments, easy access to highways and light-rail stations, the nudie joints and adult book stores and massage parlors that give some slices of northwest Dallas all the charm of s Times Square.
Or maybe it's just the history, the inability to wash the past off this grimy stretch. Warren Mitchell said. 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.
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 β 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 β 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 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. Hall said the vice unit will return "by the end of the summer. Robert Wilonsky.
