Fort Worth Voters Decide To Keep Crime-Fighting Sales Tax

(Fort Worth, TX) — Fort Worth residents are keeping in place a sales tax that provides funding to the police department.

Voters approved the half-cent Crime Control and Prevention District Tax in 1995 in response to a violent crime wave. Fort Worth has nearly doubled in population since then, but crime is down more than 60%. The tax funded about a quarter of the city’s police budget. With 93% of the precincts reporting, voters favor keeping the tax by 65% of the vote to 35%.

Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price declared a victory.