Fort Worth Crime Control & Prevention District Expands Funds To Back Community Programs

By Jason Allen, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

September 13, 2022

Community programs are in line to receive more funding and a larger role in addressing crime when Fort Worth leaders have a public hearing and vote Tuesday on the $117 million Crime Control and Prevention District budget.

For the second year, the fund expands its backing of programs including gang intervention, after school efforts and youth mentoring. It also increases money going to crisis intervention teams and homeless outreach. Cameras, cars and direct funding for initiatives like school resource officers still get a large portion of the fund.

The beneficiaries of the move to a long term strategy of addressing crime includes organizations like Operation Progress Fort Worth. Established in 2020 as an expansion out of a similar program in Los Angeles, OPFW currently works with 15 children in the Como neighborhood. It gives them academic assistance, learning opportunities outside the classroom, and a lifetime mentor who is also a law enforcement officer, but connects with the student and their family in a non-enforcement way.

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