Dallas Police Association FOP 716

10/08/2026

Texas FOP is at the table—and fighting for Texas law enforcement.

Texas FOP representatives are joining leaders from 11 other states at a National Legislative Summit focused on the issues that directly impact law enforcement officers and their families.

The agenda includes critical issues such as Brady/Giglio, Collective Bargaining, and the growing Workers’ Compensation crisis—issues that demand strong advocacy and a unified voice.

Representing Texas are Texas FOP President Clint McNear, Vice President James Parnell, TMPA Legislative Team members John Wilkerson and Bryan Flatt, and Dallas Police Association FOP 716 President Sean Pease.

We are here to build relationships, share strategies, protect the rights of our members, and make sure the voice of Texas law enforcement is heard at the national level.

Texas law enforcement deserves a seat at the table. We’re making sure we have one.

10/05/2026

In the early morning hours of September 20, 2026, an officer with the Roanoke Police Department was involved in a serious motor vehicle collision.

Officers were conducting traffic enforcement along SH 114 in response to numerous complaints involving motorcycles traveling at high speeds in the area while attending an event at Texas Motor Speedway.

The officer, who was operating a police motorcycle, attempted to stop a motorcycle when the rider fled from the officer. During the incident, both the officer and the fleeing motorcyclist were involved in a collision with another vehicle on SH 114, just west of I-35W.

The officer was transported to a local hospital and is currently listed in critical condition.

The suspect is in custody and is also being treated at a local hospital for injuries sustained in the crash.

At this time, we do not have any additional information regarding the collision or the officer’s condition. We ask that you keep our officer, his family, and the entire Roanoke Police Department in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

10/05/2026

Statement from Sean Pease, President, Dallas Police Association concerning Dallas Police and Fire expired contract

The City of Dallas continues to tell the public that public safety is its highest priority. What is happening at the contract negotiating table tells a very different story.

Dallas Police and Dallas Fire are working under an expired agreement (as of October 1st), and City Management has failed to seriously negotiate a competitive contract. Instead, the City points to a nominal raise already built into the budget as though that settles the issue.

It doesn’t.

Our members are watching the cost of living eat away at their paychecks. The Consumer Price Index is up 3.4%, and fuel costs alone have increased 27.4%. At the same time, the departments competing directly with Dallas for experienced officers are moving forward with significant raises. Our regional data shows Plano at 5.86%, Richardson at 5.5%, and Denton at 7.03%.

And while surrounding cities are improving compensation, Dallas is taking benefits away.

The City eliminated the PPO health insurance option that police officers, firefighters, other City employees, retirees, and their families relied upon. So whatever nominal raise City Hall wants to advertise must be weighed against inflation, dramatically higher fuel costs, rising health-care expenses, and the loss of a significant medical benefit.

That isn’t a competitive compensation package. It’s asking our employees to work harder while accepting less.

Dallas already struggles to recruit and retain enough police officers. Yet City Management continues acting as though Dallas operates in a vacuum and our officers have nowhere else to go. They do. Every surrounding department is competing for the same men and women we are trying to recruit—and many are offering better pay, better benefits, or both.

You cannot say public safety is your number-one priority while refusing to competitively compensate the people providing it.

You cannot say you want more police officers while making it easier for surrounding departments to recruit ours.

And you cannot take away health-care benefits, offer raises that fail to keep pace with the market, refuse to meaningfully negotiate, and then call that progress.

Dallas Police and Dallas Fire are tired of speeches about being a priority. We want City Hall to prove it.

Get back to the table. Negotiate in good faith. Fix our health insurance. And bring forward a compensation package worthy of the police officers and firefighters who protect this city every single day.

Sean Pease
President
Dallas Police Association

09/08/2026

Dallas Morning News: OPINION

Dallas can’t build its way to public safety

City must prioritize officers over costly projects

By Sean Pease

Every election season, Dallas politicians tell police officers and voters the same thing: Public safety is their top priority.

Then the election ends. Promises are forgotten. Priorities suddenly change.

Today, Dallas remains 600 officers short of the 4,000-officer objective voters put into the city charter. Compensation remains well below the competitive market. Healthcare faces cuts, and overtime used to cover a chronically understaffed department is being cut.

At the same time, City Hall wants the Dallas Police Association and Dallas Fire Fighters Association to help convince voters to approve $443 million in new public safety bonds.

There is an obvious question: Who is going to work in these new buildings?

Buildings don’t answer 911 calls.
Police academies don’t patrol neighborhoods. Fire stations don’t fight fires.
People do.

Dallas has shown time and again that it has the ability to spend. The convention center redevelopment is measured in billions, including a construction contract approaching $1 billion.
Those kinds of projects can be debated on their merits. But they demonstrate something important: When City Hall decides something is a priority, it finds a way to pay for it.

Big projects and their beneficiaries that fund political campaigns get attention. Contracts worth hundreds of millions move forward. Wealthy developers get wealthier. While police officers get another promise.

Dallas residents have already told City Hall what they want. They approved Proposition U, putting a 4,000-officer requirement into the city charter and establishing a competitive compensation benchmark. The city’s own 2025 Community Survey also identified police response times and neighborhood visibility as top public safety priorities.

Council members hear it from residents. They see it in polling. And voters put it in the charter. Yet Dallas still has only about 3,400 officers, and City Hall is pushing policies that will likely result in a net loss of officers.

To help address the officer shortfall, police and fire associations have proposed moving compensation toward the Texas market. Yet, the city’s offer falls far short of where we believe Dallas needs to be to recruit and retain experienced first responders.

Then there is healthcare. The city estimates its proposed cuts in our insurance will generate $9.9 million in savings.

Officers understand rising healthcare costs. They are asking the city to ensure that officers and their families retain meaningful flexibility to choose trusted doctors and access needed care.

Consider the contrast: Dallas can advance projects measured in billions while eliminating an important employee benefit to save less than $10 million.

Officers notice that. So do competing police departments. The best recruiting tool suburban departments have is Dallas leadership. I have never seen this many officers preparing résumés and considering opportunities elsewhere.

Businesses are taking note, too, and the stunning downtown of the heart of Dallas is proof.

Downtown office vacancy is approaching 30%, and Dallas’ 10 largest downtown office towers are reportedly 48.8% vacant. Major employers are leaving the central business district, while some businesses in Deep Ellum have closed or announced departures, partly due to concerns about crime.

We saw this coming. For years, the Dallas Police Department has warned city leadership that fewer officers means more crime, and more crime impacts economic viability.

Still, City Hall behaves as though public safety is something to negotiate after everything else has been funded.

Dallas can approve expensive construction contracts and finance billion-dollar projects. But when police officers and firefighters ask Dallas to compete for the people who protect this city, we’re told the money isn’t there.

The city manager and city council keep treating public safety as another negotiation, but residents live with the consequences: families waiting for officers, business owners wondering whether customers will come downtown and officers deciding whether Dallas is worth a career.

Before asking DPA and DFFA to help sell another $443 million public safety bond package, City Hall should prove its promises mean something.

Dallas doesn’t need another campaign speech telling us public safety is the city’s “top priority.”
We’ve heard that one before. We need a budget and a contract that proves it.

Sean Pease is president of the Dallas Police Association.

09/04/2026

08/11/2026

DALLAS POLICE ASSOCIATION STANDS WITH DALLAS FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION AGAINST THE CITY’S PROPOSED HEALTH INSURANCE CHANGES

City Management’s message to Dallas first responders has become painfully clear:

Work harder. Pay more. Accept less.

Dallas police officers and firefighters are already being offered a compensation package that fails to move Public Safety where it needs to be competitively. Now, City Management wants our members and their families to absorb higher health care costs for reduced benefits.

That is not an increase in compensation. It is taking money right back out of our members’ pockets.

And let’s be clear: we recognize that other hardworking City employees are facing furloughs, layoffs, and tremendous uncertainty. They did not create this financial situation, and neither did Dallas police officers or firefighters.

These are the consequences of decisions made by City Management, not the workforce.

Meanwhile, City Management continues to claim Dallas Police and Dallas Fire are among the highest paid in the region by selectively using non-base / incentive pay and changing the measurements used for comparison.

That is not transparency. It is a shell game.

If Dallas is truly competitive, prove it. Compare base pay to base pay, benefits to benefits, and total compensation to total compensation.

I am tired of hearing City Hall call Public Safety its “top priority” while its actions repeatedly demonstrate otherwise.

Priorities are not press releases or talking points. Priorities are where you put your money and how you treat your people.

Dallas residents have made their support for Public Safety clear. It is time for City Management to do the same.

Dallas police officers and firefighters deserve competitive pay, afordable quality health care, and leadership that keeps its promises.

The Dallas Police Association proudly stands with the Dallas Fire Fighters Association. We will continue fighting until City Management stops calling Public Safety a priority and finally starts treating it like one.

- Sean Pease
- President
- Dallas Police Association

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Dallas Firefighters Association
Statement on Proposed Health Insurance Changes

The Dallas Fire Fighters Association is deeply concerned and strongly opposed to the proposed changes to the City’s health insurance plans that would require our members to pay more while receiving fewer benefits.

We were made aware of the proposed changes on Friday and immediately communicated to City Management that these changes are unacceptable. Throughout every Meet and Confer negotiation, the DFFA has consistently asked the City to explore alternative options that would provide Dallas firefighters and their families with better, more affordable health care coverage. Unfortunately, in our current negotiation Process the City is not held to discussing or negotiating these concerns or engage in substantive discussions about alternatives.

Our members are understandably frustrated by the prospect of increased insurance costs coupled with reduced coverage. Asking firefighters to pay more out of their paychecks while simultaneously reducing the benefits available to them is, in reality, a reduction in their overall compensation. For many of our members, these changes will directly affect their families and their ability to afford necessary medical care.

Health insurance is not simply an employee benefit , it is an essential part of the total compensation package provided to Dallas firefighters. When premiums, deductibles, out-of-pocket expenses, or other health care costs increase while coverage is reduced, the financial burden is shifted directly onto our members and their families.

This is also one of the reasons the DFFA strongly opposes the pay scale currently proposed by the City as part of the ongoing Meet and Confer negotiations. The proposal does not adequately recognize the work, sacrifice, and responsibilities of Dallas firefighters. It also fails to account for rising health insurance costs and the continued impact of inflation on our members and their families.

Dallas firefighters deserve better.

They deserve competitive wages, affordable health care, and a compensation package that recognizes the demands and sacrifices of the job.

The Dallas Fire Fighters Association will continue to advocate for our members and their families and will not stop pushing for a fair and meaningful agreement that reflects their value to the City of Dallas.

08/10/2026

The voters didn’t tell the City of Dallas to study whether competitive police pay was affordable someday. They amended the City Charter and told the City to put Dallas police compensation in the top five.

Today, Dallas starts a police recruit at $81,232. Allen is over $91,000. Grand Prairie is $90,000. Frisco and Plano are both over $86,000, and Lewisville is over $86,000. Several more departments are ahead of us.

And this isn’t supposed to be a guessing game. Proposition U specifically requires the City to hire an independent firm every year to determine where Dallas ranks. Before City Hall tells our officers or the public that Dallas is competitive, show us the survey, show us the methodology, and show us where Dallas actually ranks.

08/07/2026

Statement from Sean Pease, President, Dallas Police Association

Over the past 24 hours, the men and women of the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue have once again demonstrated exactly what it means to serve this city.

Our police officers responded to multiple violent, life-threatening incidents, including an attack that critically injured a fellow law enforcement officer. At the same time, Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel rushed into those same dangerous scenes to provide lifesaving medical care, often placing themselves in harm’s way to save both victims and first responders. Their courage, professionalism, and commitment to the people of Dallas never wavered.

These events are a powerful reminder that public safety is not an abstract budget item. It is the police officer running toward gunfire. It is the firefighter and paramedic treating victims in the middle of chaos. Every day, they willingly accept risks that most people will never experience.

What makes this even more frustrating is that these men and women continue answering every call, despite being in the middle of contract negotiations where the City of Dallas has refused to meaningfully negotiate with the very people who protect this community. Dallas voters spoke clearly when they approved the recent charter amendments calling for additional first responders and a stronger investment in public safety. Yet the City continues to delay the very commitments its residents demanded.

Our officers and firefighters have upheld their promise to this city. They continue to put on the uniform, respond without hesitation, and risk everything for complete strangers. It is time for City Hall to uphold its promise to them.

Supporting public safety is measured by actions, not speeches. If Dallas truly values its first responders, then it must honor the will of its citizens, negotiate in good faith, and provide the staffing and compensation necessary to recruit and retain the professionals this city depends on.

To every Dallas police officer, firefighter, paramedic, and dispatcher who answered the call over these past several hours: thank you. Your courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment have once again made this city safer. The Dallas Police Association will continue fighting to ensure your dedication is matched by the respect, support, and investment you have earned.

- Sean Pease
- President, Dallas Police Association

08/06/2026

It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Communications Manager Robin Thomas.

Throughout her courageous and hard-fought battle with leukemia, Robin displayed remarkable strength, grace, resilience, and a profound love for life, inspiring all who knew her. We mourn her loss deeply and hold her memory close.

Our deepest sympathies are with her family, loved ones, and everyone whose life was enriched by knowing her. We ask that you keep them in your thoughts during this difficult time.

May we remember Robin not only for what she accomplished, but for the lives she touched and the lasting difference she made.

08/04/2026

🚨 PRESS CONFERENCE – TODAY AT 10:00 AM 🚨

Unfortunately, this has become a tradition in Dallas.

Every contract negotiation, police officers and firefighters find themselves asking City Hall to keep promises that have already been made.

Today, the Dallas Police Association, National Latino Law Enforcement Officers, and the Dallas Fire Fighters Association will stand together to address the City’s proposed public safety contract, budget priorities, and the commitments made to the voters of Dallas.

The people of Dallas voted for stronger public safety. They voted for more police officers, competitive compensation, a stronger Police and Fire Pension System, a new police academy, and a new fire station.

It’s time for City Hall to honor those commitments.

📍 Dallas Police Association
1412 Griffin St. E
Dallas, TX 75215

🕙 Today – 10:00 AM

We hope you’ll join us as we discuss why investing in the men and women who protect Dallas must remain the City’s highest priority.