Dallas Police Chief: 'Crimes Against Persons' Not Lost Evidence

DALLAS, TX —According to Dallas police Chief Eddie García, his IT department says it hasn't lost evidence of most of its recorded information regarding interpersonal violent crime.

The April data loss is still under audit, and García admits that he's still unsure what exactly is unaccounted for. García told The Dallas Morning News that those looking into the evidence loss don't believe that their "crimes against persons" server was among those adversely affected.

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So far, says the police chief, his detectives haven't been able to find issues with cases that encompass sexual and aggravated assaults, robberies and murders.

In García's words, that appraisal is both conditional and a preliminary conclusion that he sums up as "more likely than not" that violent interpersonal crimes were not part of the data loss.

A separate investigation is underway at the Dallas County district attorney’s office, where prosecutors have declined to offer any insight into what they've learned so far.

While the police chief feels some level of confidence about the evidence that's not been lost (and a full review of the loss will be released in a report due Sept. 30), it's less clear what exactly is missing. And García says that will likely remain undisclosed until the internal examination is complete.

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