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28 Feb 2015, 5:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“I can’t say there has been,” [DPS chief Steve] McCraw responded. [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]
5 Dec 2014, 5:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw affirmed to the committee what anyone with access to Google already knew: That "there is 'no credible information that a terrorist has crossed or will cross' the Texas-Mexico border. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 1:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw had an op ed recently (Sept. 4) in the Dallas Morning News attempting to justify the agency's decision this year to begin collecting all ten fingerprints of driver license applicants and on renewals instead of merely a thumbprint as in the past.The Colonel claims that "the only reliable way to establish a person’s identity is to collect all 10 fingerprints," which seems an unlikely assertion at best. [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]
17 Jul 2014, 7:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw has been using to promote the state's beefed up border strategy. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 11:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw's testimony yesterday to the Texas Senate Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs and Homeland Security.According to McCraw, in the last three months local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have seized more than 350,000 pounds of marijuana in Texas' border region, as well as more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine, more than 125 pounds of heroin and more than 1,800 pounds of cocaine.The logic behind drug interdiction is to remove illegal drugs from… [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 10:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw announced the agency would cease using the controversial tactic unless the Texas Legislature explicitly approved it.9. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 5:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw informed us in a column in the McAllen Monitor (Sept. 30):This short-term effort was conceived as a response to various criminal activities and unsafe driving behaviors identified in South Texas. [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
During Director [Steve] McCraw's tenure, greater efforts have been made to re-vamp the evaluation system and roll out new evaluation procedures. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw of the Texas Department of Public Safety yesterday told the Senate Finance Committee that his agency is currently short of budgeted capacity by around 400 state troopers, with 10-15 more leaving every month. [read post]
24 Dec 2012, 5:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“I have confidence in Steve McCraw — I know he’s trying to professionalize the department. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 8:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Steve McCraw told the Transportation and Homeland Security Committee this morning. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 3:13 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Nelson, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw announced today that six San Antonio-based members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been arrested based on two federal drug indictments. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 3:13 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Nelson, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw announced today that six San Antonio-based members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been arrested based on two federal drug indictments. [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]
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]