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12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That's because police-misconduct records in civil-service cities were made confidential by law in 1989, with departments forbidden even from sharing the information with other law enforcement agencies. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 7:15 am by Steven Cohen
Discussion:  Clark has been hired to opine on the City of Houston’s police training, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement standards on the use of force, and the Houston Police Department’s procedures relating to investigating excessive-force claims as well as disciplining officers who have used excessive force. [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]
10 Jun 2019, 4:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Debates surrounding the bill centered mostly on innocence cases - particularly the Houston drug convictions based on faulty field tests - but it also could have implications for people with unreasonably long sentences or even problematic death-penalty convictions. [read post]
9 Jun 2019, 1:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Police departments across the country, from major cities like Houston to towns with fewer than 30,000 people, have offered free or discounted Ring doorbells to citizens, sometimes using taxpayer funds to pay for Amazon’s products. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 4:25 am by SHG
They just aren’t possessed lawfully, at least according to the regulations of the New York City Police Department, charged with issuing permits for the possession and carry of a firearm. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" The analysis relies on the new racial profiling reports which came out March 1st, analyzing information for Texas police departments in cities with more than 50,000 people, and sheriffs in counties with more than 100,000. [read post]
12 Apr 2019, 2:35 pm by opseo
And once the petition was issued, a simple majority of those landholders could vote to create the MMD and seek the required approval from the City Council and Texas Legislature. [read post]
9 Mar 2019, 9:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The city has a reputation as liberal, but these data evidence quite authoritarian policing practices compared to other large Texas jurisdictions.However, this isn't just a capital-city story. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:47 pm by [email protected]
A few weeks later, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he intends to restrict the department’s use of these raids, reported Texas Monthly. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:47 pm by [email protected]
A few weeks later, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he intends to restrict the department’s use of these raids, reported Texas Monthly. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 2:30 pm
Law enforcement leaders such as the Major Cities Chiefs Association say that entangling federal immigration enforcement with state and local policing, as 287(g) does, is mistaken. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 5:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The no-knock warrants are going to go away like leaded gasoline in this city," declared Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at a town hall meeting after police killed two people (along with two dogs) and four officers were shot while serving a search warrant, reported the Houston Chronicle.The chief said he no longer "sees the value" in such raids, which were criticized earlier this month in a Texas Monthly story. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 8:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For example, in Fort Worth, the police department is under the civil service code and the Sheriff is not. [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 4:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Bizarrely, Austin Police Chief Bryan Manley is scheduled to speak to the Major Cities Police Chiefs' Association in Washington D.C. this week to share "hard lessons he's learned" about how police categorize sexual assault cases.He's not ready. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 9:41 am by William K. Berenson
My guess is that DFW area police would have the same results here as in Houston since we know we have a major problem. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 2:30 am by Tinker Ready
Dror is a researcher at University College London, frequently teaching at agencies like the FBI and New York Police Department on ways to minimize personal beliefs from influencing casework. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 9:26 am by Michael Lowe
  Sometimes, sophisticated routes are established between cities or states so prostitutes can rotate from place to place. [read post]
24 Nov 2018, 9:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
DWI enforcement has plummeted in recent years, along with traffic enforcement, as police shifted to other priorities and the Department of Public Safety increasingly sent its traffic-patrol force to the border. [read post]