Police departments across North Texas are gearing up for a surge in calls related to fireworks and celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve. A neighborhood in southeast Dallas is taking matters into its own hands to cut down on illegal activity.  The Marsalis Park Homeowner’s Association is spending its own money to hire off-duty Dallas police officers to patrol the community’s 11 streets Tuesday evening. Setting off fireworks or firing guns in the air is not only illegal, it’s dangerous.   Read the article…………………………….