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17 Jul 2014, 7:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw has been using to promote the state's beefed up border strategy. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 2:04 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Go here to send an email to DPS Director Steve McCraw to encourage the agency to initiate rule making and adopt the proposed rules. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 7:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw of the Department of Public Safety told the House Committee on Emerging Law Enforcement Issues yesterday that it would take four years - two biennia - to deploy 500 troopers to the border. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 6:36 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Nelson and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw announced today that eight Hondo, Texas-based members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been arrested based on a federal drug indictment; an ninth TMM member, on a federal firearms charge. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 6:36 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Nelson and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw announced today that eight Hondo, Texas-based members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been arrested based on a federal drug indictment; an ninth TMM member, on a federal firearms charge. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 6:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee earlier this month that DPS plans to put metal detectors and X-Ray machines at the entrances to the state capitol to aid in "gun detection. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 5:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In order to justify massive amounts of border security pork and to bolster the Governor's anti-immigration bona fides, since 2006 the Governor and his former homeland security director Steve McCraw, who now leads the Department of Public Safety, have consistently overstated the amount of crime in border counties, raising the spurious specter of "spillover" violence from the cartel wars in Mexico onto the US side of the river.In reality, any close observer of border… [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 5:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So the state would have to hire 933 troopers to reach its goal for the next biennium, with another 250 in the pipeline by 2019.Regular trooper cadet classes graduate around 100 or so troopers, Steve McCraw told the House Special Committee on Emerging Law Enforcement issues last week, though the class expected to graduate in June will include only 56, bringing the number of unfilled positions down from 243 to 187. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 8:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw, btw.)No real conclusions to draw or policies to recommend from Colloff's story and it won't change anyone's mind about the death penalty one way or the other. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 12:03 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few odds and ends that caught Grits' eye while I'm focused elsewhere:More than 1,200 Texans have emailed DPS Director Steve McCraw in the last week urging the agency to adopt rules proposed by Just Liberty and its allies to rein in arrests by state troopers for Class C non-jailable offenses. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 7:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Certainly, it appears DPS honcho Steve McCraw had a particularly rough go of it:New York TimesDallas NewsHouston ChronicleAustin Statesman Houston PressTexas TribuneBreitbart News The NY Times article is particularly good, and the Breitbart piece highlights Tea Party "liberty" perspectives on the case. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 1:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Goes to show that it's possible to find bipartisan agreement if the goal is good policy instead of only scoring campaign points.Just Liberty has been told by the DPS General Counsel's office that members of the PSC will be briefed on the proposal in executive session, so the only opportunity to address commissioners will be during the generic public-comment section at the beginning of the meeting.As of this writing, nearly 4,500 Texans have sent emails to DPS Director Steve… [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 5:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“I can’t say there has been,” [DPS chief Steve] McCraw responded. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In a letter to Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Gov., Rick Perry, Lt. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 5:27 pm by Susan I. Nelson
The key player in the Texas border security model is a name that never appears in the governor’s stream of press releases and campaign ads about border security or in the get-tough pronouncements of Col Steve McCraw. [read post]
In a statement to the press, Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steve McCraw, dismissed concerns that the deaths were related to the buoys. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 12:03 pm
Steve McCraw, the Governor's homeland security director, said his office had come up with the idea "in house" in consultation with the Governor without speaking with DPS, but that it was "just a recommendation. [read post]