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18 Nov 2016, 8:30 am
This piece was originally posted in the Houston Chronicle.Dee Arellano had just parked her car in downtown Houston when she was approached by a police officer on horseback. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 10:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Certainly not most taxpayers in Houston footing the bills.Bottom line, like so many US cities, politicians in Houston promised police and firefighters unions far more in benefits than taxpayers could afford, drastically underfunding pensions and assuming way-too-high rates of return on investment. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 6:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In those and ten other Texas cities, local control of police and fire pensions has been wrested away by the Legislature and vested into independent bodies on which cities have a voice but unions (and the Lege) have ultimate control. [read post]
17 Sep 2016, 1:34 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In Houston, notably, local police refuse to share details of the device's use with prosecutors, citing the confidentiality agreement now largely mooted with the release of these documents. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 8:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  Then for the folks who can’t afford to pay bail, at that point, they sit in that booking location, their local lockup - the Houston Police [Department’s] jail is one of the main ones - and until a van shows up from the Harris County Jail. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 10:57 am by John Floyd
  These same sheriffs’ and local police departments also aggressively seek out poor people who do not (in most instances, cannot) pay fines for misdemeanor violations and traffic offenses. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 9:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Houston police union and the acting chief want the department to regain control of crime scene technicians who investigate police shootings, reported Lise Olsen at the Houston Chronicle, after that authority was transferred to the city's independent crime lab two years ago. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 7:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reported the Dallas News (Aug. 18):The Dallas Police Department has discontinued its policy of waiting 72 hours to interview officers involved in police shootings.The announcement came late Thursday as part of the department's response to a 14-point list of demands made by the Next Generation Action Network. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 2:30 pm by Steven Boutwell
When he tried to board a bus to Houston with his small white dog, a police officer had to take the dog away from the boy. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 4:31 pm by Michael B. Stack
  They hired me to work in their First Aid Department and train all the first responders. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 4:11 pm by Michael Lowe
Working with the Dallas Police Department and DPS (the Texas Department of Public Safety), these defendants were allegedly involved in a drug business operating in Dallas County. [read post]
27 Jul 2016, 12:37 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
There's nothing dull about its contents, however.Last year, the Texas Legislature mandated that police departments report all police shootings to the Attorney General, whether or not the victim dies. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 8:54 am by Heather Mac Donald
Fryer found that police officers in Houston were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot blacks than whites (p. 50; he concluded that there was no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings there. [read post]
16 Jul 2016, 9:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Houston Police Department, which monitors more than 5,000 registered sex offenders, employs 14 people — 10 of them officers — who do nothing else.In an office behind the Austin Police Department’s reception area, officer Adrian Valdovino processes a steady stream of registering offenders. [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]
11 Jul 2016, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Both times, the health departments brought along the police, even though the customers were buying a legal food product. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The reason the potential impact is so large is because several area police departments contract with League City for its breath alcohol work. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The mayor’s transition team report calls Houston’s Municipal Courts Department a “profit center” designed to rake in as much in fines and fees as possible, disproportionately punishing the city’s poor in the process.Despite reforms her department has implemented in recent years, Presiding Judge Barbara Hartle says a number of factors can [read post]
25 May 2016, 3:06 am by Michael Lowe
    Dallas Police Department Reveal Names of Alleged Sexual Assault Victims Online (With Age and Home Address) The Dallas Police Department has its own website (you can check it out here). [read post]