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4 Jan 2019, 3:24 pm
Here is a DPS statement on the subject Continue reading [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 7:34 am
Auditors from the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed allegations that the Austin Police Department pressured the head of its sex-crimes unit to improperly classify rapes as "exceptionally cleared" when that was not the case. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 2:59 pm
Grits agrees DPS crime labs need more funding - it's why your correspondent supported user fees passed last session - but money won't in and of itself solve the false-conviction issue.One solution could be for agencies to simply stop using junk science this unproven forensic method:In 2017, a number of Texas law enforcement agencies (e.g., Houston Police Department, Pasadena Police Department, DPS state troopers, etc.) announced they wouldno longer use field drug… [read post]
1 Dec 2018, 7:20 am
You've got to hand it to outgoing Republican DA Faith Johnson: She's been more willing to charge officers in wrongful shooting episodes than any Democratic elected prosecutor in Texas, or for that matter, as she boasted in this 13-second clip from the campaign trail, any other District Attorney in the country:Lawsuit: DPS suffers from 'cronyism,' 'corruption'A federal lawsuit has been filed accusing the Texas DPS under Col. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 9:26 am
The Sex Business in Texas: Fastest Growing Business of Organized Crime In its latest “Texas Public Safety Threat Overview,” the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) described sex trafficking as “… the fastest-growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 4:08 pm
Today, just two agencies - Texas DPS and the Harris County Sheriff's Office - employ nearly all of the fewer than two dozen forensic hypnotists in the state.Indeed, forensic hypnosis appears to be a dying profession in Texas. [read post]
20 Oct 2018, 7:59 am
This evidence came through the testimony of a novice chemist working in the DPS lab. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 6:12 pm
DPS won't give the prison agency permission to include fingerprints for "pen packets" prosecutors prepare when a defendant is sent to prison.'The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System'Awesome long form historical perspective on Texas' prison litigation in the 1970-80s from Ethan Watters at Texas Monthly, told through the lens of a romance.Studying state jail feloniesThe Texas Criminal Justice Coalition just issued a… [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 6:12 am
Other times, with less severe injuries, the DPS will write a crash report and include the insurance information and basic facts. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 11:59 am
Here are a few browser-clearing odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention:'Overstated findings' by DPS analystThe Texas Forensic Science Commission dinged a DPS lab chemist for "overstated findings" in the blood-spatter case Pro Publica's Pam Colloff has been following. [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 2:01 pm
Greg Abbott rescinded new fees authorized by the Legislature last year after they cut the agency's crime lab budget, nobody has ever come up with the extra money, leaving Texas DPS crime labs poised to run out of operating funds before the end of the fiscal year. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 4:24 am
I really think that it's one thing for people to think the DPS deployment is a politicized thing, I'm not sure I support that. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 8:59 am
Florida does not allow suspension time to run while the offender is in prison.But as regular Grits readers know, Texas has more drivers with suspended licenses than any other state in the country, so many, in fact, that the situation has contributed to massive lines at DPS license centers that can take as long as eight hours to navigate. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 9:47 am
Evidence for that view is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.See prior, related Grits posts:Texas DPS acknowledges short-staffed call center in budget request to reduce license-center linesTexas DPS getting a bum rap over proposed driver-license center closuresHow the Driver Responsibility Surcharge contributes to long lines at DPS license centers [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 10:28 am
Those are the underlying pathologies and Texas won't resolve them just by throwing money at the symptoms (i.e., long lines).See related Grits posts:Texas DPS getting a bum rap over proposed driver-license center closuresHow the Driver Responsibility Surcharge contributes to long lines at DPS license centers [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 9:13 am
Here's what my co-host Mandy Marzullo, executive director of the Texas Defender Service, are discussing this month:Top StoriesLong lines at Texas DPS driver-license centers.Texas prison system can't keep rural prisons staffed.Death and TexasTexas' junk-science writ revisiting dubious forensics in capital cases.Interview:Scott Henson interviews Pam Colloff of ProPublica/New York Times Magazine on her latest feature on blood-spatter evidence and… [read post]
25 Aug 2018, 9:01 am
And I've yet to hear a Texas politician talking about any of them, at least in the context of this debate. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 12:05 pm
That was the reason Texas created a new form of habeas corpus writ - discussed recently in the Texas Tribune in the context of shaken-baby cases - to allow redress when the legal system bases convictions on junk science. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 8:10 am
DPS faces a big job managing Texas' driver licenses. [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 2:47 pm
As Grits catches up on all the Texas criminal-justice news that happened while the blog was on hiatus, let's clear some browser tabs with a roundup posts, on the off chance that some readers missed these stories, too:Massive 8-hour waits at DPS license shops worsened by state policyWhile there are many causes for continued, massive waits at Texas DPS drivers license centers, they're undoubtedly worsened by the nearly two million people who've had… [read post]
