The plain version

Deer Park polices itself — the Deer Park Police Department answers to the city, not the county sheriff. And here's the part most residents never learn: a significant share of its funding comes from a dedicated special district, the Crime Control & Prevention District, that voters created and periodically have to renew at the ballot box. So public safety isn't just a line in the city budget; it's partly carried by a voter-authorized sales-tax district with its own board and its own expiration date.

This page gathers who runs public safety, how it's funded — including that district — and when the renewals that keep it going come up. The sourcing rule holds: every figure names its document, and anything we can't source stays off.