DALLAS - The Dallas City Council received an alarming update from police on Monday about a recent warrant roundup.

The department said of the 70 people arrested, 25 have already been released and some of them had prior felonies on their records.
"As I look at this, it's frightening,” said Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Adam McGough.

In an interview with FOX4 on Friday, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot spoke about the problem, saying he has called a meeting of the presiding municipal judges to talk about the importance of having all of the information about an offender when setting bond -- keeping Dallas' most violent offenders behind bars.

"The DA, Creuzot, is actively working on trying to develop a system, trying to make sure...the magistrates that are setting the bonds have enough information,” said Assistant Chief David Pughes.

One week ago, Abbaney Matts and her sister, Deja, were gunned down on the campus of Texas A&M Commerce.

The week before the murders, Matts' ex-boyfriend, Jacques Smith, got out of jail on a $15,000 bond sent by a magistrate judge in Garland after Smith allegedly beat her with a lamp, TV and frying pan, according to police. The affidavit states that he told her he would kill her.

Smith is now charged with capital murder in her death.

Records show Smith has a history of assault, and was even on probation -- yet he was able to bond out of jail.

“We just had a gross failure of the system,” said Dallas County Commissioner JJ Koch.

Koch agrees that the DA and judges need to meet and make sure this does not happen again.

“That's an instance where we just have to be so, so good at catching people in that net when they're in our hands. There is just no excuse of someone who is that evil,” Koch said.

According to the DA, judges see an offender's criminal history when deciding a bond amount, but might not receive all the specifics of the crime they are accused of, unless they contact the DA's office, or a prosecutor is present.

“We need to make sure that we're using the resources we have, in a wise fashion, to protect our citizens. We're not,” Koch said.

McGough spoke Monday, concerned about the issue, as Dallas is working to decrease violent crime.

"The folks that are already committing violent crimes and have violent crimes on their record are more likely to commit violent crimes, and that's the issue we're dealing with more than anything else right now, so until we address this, I don't know that much of what we're doing has a substantial impact,” McGough said.

You can't fix stupid.

and you hire this in Philadelphia.............just like the dallas one.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/philadelphia-police-chief-starts-amid-surge-homicides-68863540

with the last name of Outlaw

Let the cities burn

Ed • 2 days ago

A whole city falls prey to #METOO and the race hustlers. ...a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Amazed they didn't try to blame the gun.

Well Hades he beat her with a lamp, TV and frying pan and that didn't work............he had to get a gun

Out on bond, where did he get the gun?

This is just one example of why I think progressives are nuts! They keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

Tonya McClary calls herself both a community whisperer and a police whisperer.

“It concerns me—there’s no question,” said Teare.

“I can tell you in my 34 years of doing this business, I have never seen so many suspected criminals on our streets, and that’s just the way it is,” said Herman. “I mean these folks are having cases dismissed. They’re having low bonds and sometimes not even any bonds.”

I've been getting warrants signed by judges for 25 years. Some are liberal and give low bonds, some are conservative and give high bonds. My favorite judge to take problem people warrants to, has a portrait on his chamber wall of Judge Roy Bean's Courthouse. Typically this issue has nothing to do with money, it's all about social and political beliefs. This is how it is in Tarrant County, I can't speak of Dallas County issues. The whole government there from the city, county and schools are so corrupt, that there's no end to what goes on as far as the corruption.