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Former Dallas, Arlington and Grand Prairie, Texas Chief of Police David Kunkle has died at the age of 72, his family confirms.

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In 2019, Kunkle and his wife revealed that he was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, which is a type of Alzheimer's.

We find ourselves in an insanely fraught moment for a new chief of police to start in Dallas. These times are not normal by any measure. What makes it worse is that we’ve had some terrible chiefs before. We have also had great ones. But in this moment, when we look at a new chief, is there some measuring stick by which we might at least guess what may lie ahead? And, by the way, because of magazine deadlines, I am writing this fully two weeks before the decision is announced. I have my own fa...

The Love Affair That Rocked City Hall He’s been divorced four times. She is 23 years his junior. But what really got the gossip going: he’s the chief of police, and she’s a tenacious TV reporter The debate had been raging all day at the Dallas Morning News. On Wednesday, September 20, Metro columnist Sherry Jacobson had written a story for the next day’s edition breaking the news that Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle was dating CBS Channel 11 City Hall reporter and news anchor Sarah Do...

The Devil in David Kunkle’s Brain Dallas’ former chief is disappearing. Sarah Dodd knew something was wrong with her husband in November 2019. Though, if she’s being honest, she began to worry at least a year before that, probably longer. Something she couldn’t yet define, something still more feeling than fact. Just that thing, said the former television reporter, “when you’re around someone you love and you know when that person is not …” A pause. A deep breath. Then a choked...