Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia is recommending that the City Council change the laws related to sexually oriented businesses.

Why it matters: Police believe crackdowns on SOBs will help reduce the crime rate in Dallas, especially on the Northwest side of the city.

What’s happening: Police recommend city ordinances change so that SOBs will be required to close at 2am.

• The city will also change the minimum employment age at these businesses to 21, to comply with a new state law.

Driving the news: The public safety committee will be briefed today on crime data around strip clubs. Another council committee has requested a task force examine the issue and present a report next year.

By the numbers: Police have made 2,082 arrests at adult businesses since 2019, most of which occurred between 10pm and 6am, according to a Dallas Police Department report.

• There have been 549 aggravated assaults this year in the northwest patrol division, where most of Dallas’ strip clubs operate.

What they’re saying: "This is to address being able to better regulate hours of operation for businesses that we have seen have criminal activity and where it’s been most prominent, and there’s data to support that with the presentation," Council member Adam Bazaldua said at a meeting last month.

The other side: City Council member Omar Narvaez has said he’s waiting on more information before making a decision on the change. "Sex work is not anything that any of us should be looking at as derogatory or something that’s shameful," he said at the same meeting.

The bottom line: Mayor Eric Johnson has been supportive of Garcia’s plan to reduce crime. That’s likely to continue.

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A relocation company based in McKinney is helping conservatives move to North Texas.

• Conservative Move manages a network of politically like-minded real estate agents, homebuilders, moving companies and mortgage bankers that assists blue state expats with their move to red Texas, according to this new profile of the company in D Magazine.

Why it matters: Exit polling has shown that people who moved to Texas voted for conservatives at a higher rate than people born here.

• Paul Chabot, Conservative Move’s founder, is running for the Texas House of Representatives.

What they’re saying: "We moved our children here to live the American dream," Chabot told a group of prospective Texans over a Zoom that D’s Peter Simek watched.

Details: Chabot says his company doesn’t only help people move to Texas. They move people from New York, Seattle, Portland and Chicago to places like Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina and Idaho.

Of note: As Axios reported in October, studies have shown that the biggest reason out-of-staters move to Texas is the still relatively low cost of housing.

The intrigue: Groups like Conservative Move seem to be selling an exaggerated version of Texas, a conservative haven free from political strife. The reality here is obviously a lot more complicated.

The irony: The more Californians move here, the more sprawling suburbs like McKinney will have to deal with Californian problems like rising home prices, prolonged commute times and crowded schools.

Dallas absolutely dominated most of yesterday’s game in Washington, rolling up an 18-0 lead before the end of the first quarter.

• Defensive end Randy Gregory tipped a pass to himself for an early Cowboys interception.
• Then a few minutes later, Micah Parsons sacked Washington quarterback Taylor Heinicke and forced a fumble that Dorance Armstrong picked up and ran back for a touchdown.

Yes, but: After Heinicke was injured, Washington made it a game. After a long drive and a Dak Prescott interception returned for a touchdown, Washington came back to make it a one-score game.

In the end: Dallas held on. The Cowboys are 9-4, three games up in the division with only four games left in the regular season.

Our thought bubble: It’s been a long time since the Cowboys had a defense this good.

• Sometimes hope hurts.

🧑‍🚒 A fire captain in Plano who allegedly exposed himself to a Chicken Express employee was suspended and demoted but not fired. (Daily Beast)

👨‍🍳 Chef Gordon Ramsey is moving his restaurant headquarters to Las Colinas. (DMN)

👧 A Collin County girl considered missing since July was found safe in a foreign country officials won’t name. (NBC DFW)

🥅 Stars goalie Ben Bishop, who has missed all season with a degenerative knee injury, will likely never play again, according to team officials. (ESPN)

🧛‍♀️ Author Anne Rice, who used to live in North Texas, died at 80. (NYT)

For 15 years, an elaborately decorated leafless pecan tree in the tiny town of Bartonville — 30 miles northwest of Dallas — has been making people emotional.

How it works: The so-called Bartonville Tree on Barbara Nunneley’s 10-acre ranch stands 50 feet tall, and it’s wrapped in more than 60,000 white lights.

• It takes a crew of eight people up to 20 hours to decorate the tree.
• They use a cherry picker to get the lights all the way to the top.

Context: Nunneley began hiring people to light the tree in 2005, mostly for her family.

• It’s become a beacon of hope and a spot for quiet contemplation for the entire community.

Worthy of your time: Check out Texas Monthly’s 2020 story about the Bartonville Tree.