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30 Aug 2018, 7:32 am
Later, reported the Texas Tribune, "Before settling the lawsuit, the department conducted its own research and the cost dropped to $11 million. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 1:26 pm
Houston Leads Texas Cities in Fatal Police Shootings The Post report revealed that more than 2,500 police departments shot and killed at least one person between 2015 and 2019. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 4:37 am
Further evidence the Texas Senate has become a black hole for #cjreform.Pretrial diversion nixedAn agency bill proposed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice would have expanded pretrial diversion programming in ways that would have an undetermined but not insignificant de-carceral effect. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 1:08 pm
Let's clear a few browser tabs with a roundup of odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention:Austin city council ready for its close up on police reformFirst, on Thursday, the Austin City Council will hear 5 #cjreform resolutions including a directive to strengthen Austin PD's use of force policy and another calling for a reduction in the police department's budget. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 1:39 am
More than 2,400 Texas law enforcement agencies, including 253 of 254 Sheriffs' Departments and most Texas police departments, fall under the Texas Public Informatin Act, which is quite generous about what records are available to the public. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:51 am
Also check out a recent letter from social workers to the Austin City Council supporting a shift in responsibility from the policing profession to theirs. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 12:39 pm
Texas is second in the nation in fatal police shootings, with Dallas and Houston being among the top cities—and those shootings involve Black Americans at a much higher rate than the national average. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 5:40 am
As much as one might like to, I don't see how it's possible to legislate away the discretion of elected District Attorneys to exercise routine lenience toward criminal defendants employed by police departments. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 9:53 am
Despite widespread calls to "defund the police," Austin appears to be the only major city in Texas and one of the only large towns nationwide to reduce the police department budget significantly. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 2:19 pm
Most larger Texas police departments wrote fewer traffic tickets in 2011Why are Texas cops writing fewer traffic tickets? [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 1:53 pm
Most Dubious Delay in Providing Police Use of Force Records Corpus Christie Police Department A Texas woman made a selfie-style video as she was put in a chokehold by a police officer in a Whataburger parking lot. [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 3:27 pm
City of Austin, No. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 2:10 am
List of Names Texas Police Excessive Force: Concern Isn’t Just the Police Officer, It’s the Entire Police Department Police Brutality in Texas? [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 9:48 am
A listing of all defendants with outstanding arrest warrants from the Plano Municipal Court is available at: http://www.plano.gov/Departments/Police/Pages/warrants.aspx. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 7:54 am
Abbott applied to Austin for Mayor Price to backpedal from a partisan interpretation.To be clear, it was always a pile of horse hockey to blame crime trends on partisan affiliation, or for that matter Austin's modest budget cut to the police department. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 5:11 am
SCOTUS may eventually knock this down, but the Texas Legislature should codify a warrant requirement for cell-phone location data and make it clear to everybody what the government can and can't see without probable cause.The fight over civilian oversightAdvocates in Dallas want to empower that city's civililian review board, which was created to investigate police misconduct. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 7:00 am
Even if the suit were dropped, the city should insist there's no such provision in any future contract, ever.OTOH, while it's fine to call for a return to the negotiating table, if the city wins the lawsuit there's also just the option of setting salaries and benefits without one, as happens routinely in the overwhelming majority of Texas police departments. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 12:01 pm
Sex trafficking operations typically combine the resources of many police departments and federal agencies. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 12:01 pm
Sex trafficking operations typically combine the resources of many police departments and federal agencies. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 8:10 am
The Texas Observer has published a lengthy investigative feature by Emily DePrang titled "Crimes Unpunished: At Houston Police Department, a lax discipline system keeps negligent cops on the street," (July 10). [read post]
