DALLAS — A Dallas group is threatening to sue the city if it does not comply with a controversial proposition passed in November, which requires the city to employ hundreds more police officers. 

The 60-day notice was submitted to the city of Dallas despite the city recently approving hiring 300 more police officers for 2025.  

According to the Dallas Police Department website, they currently have around 3,100 officers, making them about 900 short of Proposition U’s 4,000 minimum.  

Dallas HERO, the group that is looking at taking legal action, was the organization that put Propositions U and S onto the November ballot. Dallas residents overwhelmingly passed them into the city charter despite city, county, and even local law enforcement speaking out against them.  

Prop S allows Dallas HERO to take legal action against the city for not following the law.  

“Even though I had some really positive conversations, as a whole, we felt, like, that we weren’t moving the ball forward,” Dallas Hero Executive Director Damien Leveck said.  

Leveck says this letter of intent isn’t because the city hasn’t met the 4,000 police officer minimum. Still, it’s more about the city’s lackadaisical approach to improving officer pay to keep and recruit, which is also a part of Prop U.  

All of this comes as the city is also navigating major revisions to the development of a new police academy on the UNT Dallas campus.  

“We are not asking for the city to hire 900 officers in the next 60 days. We are asking for a good faith effort to be made,” Leveck noted.  

When asked about the letter of intent, a Dallas spokesperson responded to an email, saying they “have no comment to make at this time.”  

Leveck says they’re prepared to go to the court if they must.