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13 Jul 2017, 4:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston’s operates largely in private and only takes cases referred to them by the internal affairs bureau of the department. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 1:07 pm by Neal Davis
Also, the Harris County/City of Houston Joint Processing Center is involved in processing DWI suspects. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 12:24 pm by johntfloyd
Continued Scandals in Houston, Harris County Criminal Justice System Beg for Independent Regional Crime Lab By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The “crime lab” for the Houston Police Department (HPD) has become a hotbed of flawed forensic evidence. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 3:32 pm
  LINKThe Houston Police Department crime lab is close to resuming DNA testing, officials told a City Council committee Monday, six months after the lab was forced to suspend such analyses for the second time in recent years. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 8:17 am
Four and a half years after the first signs of problems in the Houston Police Department Crime Lab emerged, an independent investigator has issued his final report,  The Houston Chronicle has, "Investigators urge new tests in HPD crime lab final report. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 12:57 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Elsewhere in Texas, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio have all increased police budgets in the wake of the George-Floyd protests, and few other cities except Seattle have enacted IRL budget reductions. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 2:58 pm
"HPD's crime lab asks for $1.25 million," is the report in today's Houston Chronicle.The Houston Police Department is asking City Council to approve $1.25 million to hire outside scientists to review all tests done by the recently reopened DNA crime lab. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 8:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 That includes the major cities—Dallas (4,144), San Antonio (2,077), Fort Worth (1,018) and Austin (407). [read post]
29 Aug 2020, 11:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Lord was credited with turning the Houston City Marshal's office into a "proper" police department. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 4:07 am by gbaumgartner
Buses fill an important role in our nation’s cities and towns, large and small. [read post]
17 Dec 2006, 4:08 am
The recent arrest and use of a Taser against a black professional football player has once again put the police department of the nation's fourth-largest city under scrutiny. ...Police data show that in almost 1,000 Taser deployments since December 2004, 63 percent of the suspects were black. [read post]
30 Aug 2014, 7:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Many wearable apps struggle to find useful things or interesting things to do with data they generate, while corrections folks know what to do with data about their subjects - whether it's video, their location, blood-alcohol levels, etc. - and exhibit a voracious appetite for it.In related news, Houston police chief Charles McLelland asked city hall this week "for $8 million to equip 3,500 police officers over three years with small body cameras to… [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 1:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
This week, several organizations formally called on Houston ISD to eliminate its police department and instead contract with local agencies who would respond only to emergency situations, reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 7:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But a city employee was recently surprised to stumble upon a different product: 123 bags of illegal drugs mistakenly shipped over in a file cabinet by the Dallas Police Department Property Unit. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 6:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And it's certain they're not unique.It's great that a city the size of Houston gets this sort of in-depth, research-based coverage, but there's no reason Pinkerton's methodology couldn't be reproduced by media in other jurisdictions. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 8:30 pm by Michael O'Hear
  This is a six-member citizen board that oversees the city’s fire and police departments. [read post]
30 Aug 2020, 8:13 am by John Floyd
” This Jo DePrang written article pointed out that half of all police stops by the Houston Police Department were against African-Americans, although they represented one-quarter of the city’s population. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 10:44 am by Sandra Thompson
After the debacle of the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory, the City of Houston in 2014 spun off the crime lab, making it a new organization, independent of law enforcement, now called the Houston Forensic Science Center. [read post]
27 May 2010, 11:39 am by Walter James
The Houston Police Department has a history of, to put it politely, aggressive investigations of alleged environmental criminal activity. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 11:04 am by John Floyd
  Area police, sheriff’s departments, the DEA, FBI, and the U.S. marshals are relentless in their efforts to apprehend and prosecute drug offenders. [read post]