It's Not Easy Replacing ‘mayhem' With ‘hope' When the Dallas City Council's Involved

The most notable thing about Maham Road, between North Central Expressway and Spring Valley Road in far North Dallas, is how it's pronounced: mayhem. Which is only fitting, given how the area has long been portrayed and perceived -- as a high-crime hot spot with grim stat sheets full of sexual assaults and homicides and break-ins, where homeless encampments and gangs hide along the nearby creek, where prostitutes and drug dealers once conducted business in a city park filled with weeds left high to act as a crime deterrent."If you're in and around that area for any length of time," said Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Rick Watson, "its reputation hasn't been the best." Watson, not long ago a contender for the DPD's top job, is very good at understatement.  Continue reading...

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