In Los Angeles, the LA Times found that calls for police service are down by about ten percent. In all likelihood, the calls for service are probably down here in Houston as well.
The number of calls here in Houston is down. There were 21,177 calls for service in July 2024, and in July 2025, there were about 3,000 fewer calls for service, totaling 18,627 calls. That is nearly a 14% reduction in the number of calls. One month is not a trend, nor do the calls for service include calls like noise disturbance, where the officer does not write a report or incident number.
Last night, one of my neighbors was celebrating, and the music was pretty loud. I usually would have reported it, but I decided that an inconvenience for me would not be worth the possibility of a family being separated. I live in a neighborhood with a large number of residents who are not citizens. While all my family are citizens, and I am not known for being one who believes in open borders, neither is my heart so cold that I could be the reason that someone is detained and placed in a crowded place with people, and having to sleep on the concrete. From what I have read, they are being especially cruel to them in an effort to get them to agree to self deportation.
- A strawberry delivery driver was arrested by Border Patrol near Gov. Newsom’s Little Tokyo news conference, becoming “collateral damage.”
- Angel Minguela Palacios endured six weeks of harsh detention conditions, watching fellow detainees give up and self-deport.
- Over more than a month in detention, the 48-year-old father prayed he’d get back to his family.
The lights never dimmed and Angel Minguela Palacios couldn’t sleep. He pulled what felt like a large sheet of aluminum foil over his head, but couldn’t adjust to lying on a concrete floor and using his tennis shoes as a pillow.
He could smell unwashed bodies in the cramped room he shared with 40 detainees. He listened as men, many of them arrested at car washes or outside Home Depots, cried in the night for their loved ones.
From the LA Times
- Data obtained by The Times show a citywide decrease in calls for help to the LAPD during the weeks when immigration enforcement ramped up.
- The findings caused concern among advocates about domestic violence and other crimes going unreported due to deportation fears.
At the same time that federal immigration enforcement ramped up across the Los Angeles area this summer, calls for help to local police plummeted.
Emergency dispatch data reviewed by The Times show a major decrease in LAPD calls for service in June, during the weeks when sweeps by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies were met by large street protests in downtown Los Angeles.
In a city where roughly a third of the population is foreign-born, the steep decline in calls adds to long-standing concerns from advocates that aggressive immigration enforcement leads to domestic abuse and other crimes going unreported because victims fear triggering deportations.
In the two weeks after June 6, when the immigration raids kicked off, LAPD calls for service fell 28% compared with the same period last year — an average of roughly 1,200 fewer calls per day.
LAPD officers responded to roughly 44,000 calls for service in that two-week span — versus nearly 61,000 calls during the same days in June 2024.
The calls include reports of serious crimes, such as home break-ins and domestic disputes, along with instances when the public has sought help with noisy neighbors, loud parties and other routine matters.
The data analyzed by The Times do not include all 911 calls — only LAPD calls for service, which are typically registered when a squad car is dispatched. Though multiple people may call 911 in connection with a single incident, in most cases only one LAPD call for service is recorded.
Here in Houston often cars are dispatched for noise complaints but they do not show up in the crime statistics, if HPD maintains that data it is not available to the public or maybe I just did not find it.
