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2 Dec 2009, 9:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The title of this post is the headline of a Nov. 28 op-ed in the Houston Chronicle by Bill King argued that spending more on patrol officers won't reduce crime but redeploying them from patrol to investigations might:there is one recurring theme I have encountered in my research on this subject, and that is the size of a department's investigative force. [read post]
31 May 2011, 10:22 am
There are over a dozen little bergs and suburbs in the greater Houston area. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 1:11 am
After a large-scale fistfight on Tuesday night in which 9 inmates and three staff were injured at the federal detention facility in downtown Houston, one attorney "said that housing inmates awaiting transfer to federal prison for serious crimes under the same roof with pretrial defendants is a 'a recipe for disaster,'" reported the Houston Chronicle.A couple of Mark Bennett's clients were in the facility at the time, the Chron reported, so maybe he'll… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:54 pm
Reports the Dallas News:At least 2,600 Houston-area DWI arrests are now in question, after a Department of Public Safety contractor failed to inspect breath analysis equipment - and faked records to show that she hadMORE: Here's a longer story from the Houston Chronicle, which informs us that:The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Friday that it suspended the certification for a woman who contracted to keep the breath test machines accurate for the Clute,… [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 6:01 am
Loren Steffy, the Houston Chronicle's business columnist, has been having a hard time lately. [read post]
21 May 2008, 8:44 am
The Houston Chronicle reported that: It sounded like a foolproof recipe for a death sentence: an admired and respected police officer shot in the back by an illegal immigrant whose history included criminal convictions for drunken driving and indecency with a child as well as deportation. [read post]
22 Apr 2007, 3:26 am
The Chronicle reported that "Psychiatrists hired by TYC diagnosed him with major depression, bipolar and schizoaffective disorders and drug dependence. [read post]
25 May 2012, 12:56 pm by Steve Hall
That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle on the case of Carlos DeLuna. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 1:43 pm
That's the title of a Saturday Houston Chronicle editorial regarding the Supreme Court ruling in Snyder v. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 3:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A Houston Chronicle op ed by Emilie Farenthold, an attorney with a doctorate in public health, identifies the challenges facing whoever is hired as Harris County's juvenile probation director after the last one was fired last fall over a highly publicized security breach. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 3:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A Houston Chronicle op ed by Emilie Farenthold, an attorney with a doctorate in public health, identifies the challenges facing whoever is hired as Harris County's juvenile probation director after the last one was fired last fall over a highly publicized security breach. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 8:26 am by Steve Hall
"Junk science and the death penalty, a toxic combination," that's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle, and it begins the latest Todd Willingham news coverage. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 2:24 pm
Sixteen years after being convicted and sentenced to death for his involvement in the horrific murders of two women and four children in rural Sommerville, Texas, Anthony Graves was freed from prison yesterday years after evidence of his innocence surfaced.Graves' first stop in the free world was his mother's house, the Houston Chronicle reported. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 8:10 am
That's the title of Lisa Falkenberg's latest column in the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 4:54 pm
"Race for DA puts justice system on trial," is Alan Bernstein's report in the Sunday Houston Chronicle. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 4:29 am
The Houston Chronicle recently published an early update on how county juvenile probation departments are spending new diversion money aimed at keeping more youthful offenders out of the Texas Youth Commission ("Breaking the cycle of youth crime," Nov. 28): State lawmakers this year approved $50 million over the next two years to support juvenile diversion programs. [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 4:00 am
This op-ed in the Houston Chronicle, entitled "Think outside the cell," proposes alternatives to new prison spending. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 6:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire, D-Houston, received a threat a year ago from a death row inmate using a smuggled cell phone. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:56 am by Steve Hall
That's the title of Harvey Rice's report in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]