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5 Jan 2018, 9:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
MORE: Here's a new academic piece on body cameras from Seth Stoughton for the to-read pile.Private prison company gets rep on Windham task forceOne of the governor's new appointees to Texas' task force on "Academic Credit and Industry Recognition" at the Windham School District (which operates educational programming at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice) works for a private prison company, reported the Longview News Journal.Maybe time to… [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 9:52 am by Carl Takei
Indeed, the first municipally-funded police department in America was the Charleston City Watch and Guard, a specialized form of slave patrol that monitored Black social gatherings, shut down underground meetings, and sought to block enslaved Black people from organizing resistance to or escape from bondage. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 6:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
By June, the Austin City Council unanimously issued a "no confidence" vote after the department injured numerous protesters and appeared to instigate more violence than they prevented. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 10:34 am by Eva Ruth
Critics say the tactics are time-consuming when time is particularly of the essence.Still, police in Dallas, New York City, Kansas City, Seattle and Los Angeles have recently added training on the subject. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 9:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
His brother has joined the group Mothers Against Police Brutality and the article described his dissatisfying efforts seeking answers about the incident from the department, including confronting the police chief at a public forum.Feds may step in after El Paso grand jury cleared cop who shot handcuffed manAn El Paso cop who shot and killed a handcuffed suspect in 2013 may face federal charges. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 8:53 am by Judicial Watch Blog
That’s probably because the city of about 2.4 million residents has long offered illegal immigrants sanctuary and even forbids its police department from asking suspects’ about their legal status. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 9:56 am by [email protected]
” Hall has defended the controversial deployment of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in the city in 2019. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 9:56 am by [email protected]
” Hall has defended the controversial deployment of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in the city in 2019. [read post]
3 Oct 2023, 10:10 am by Dave Maass
With tentacles reaching into 13 Mexican cities and a data pipeline that will channel intelligence all the way to Austin, Texas, the monstrous project will be unlike anything seen before along the U.S. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 1:53 am
This is not a Texas case but the difficulties faced by the Boston PD in disciplining bad cops come up again and again in the Lone Star State, particularly in agencies whose employment policies are governed by Texas' civil service code. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 5:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
He notes that, with the notable exception of Seattle, many cities have announced that the police department will decide who gets to see video and when. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 10:21 am by Michael Lowe
FBI Sting Nabs Sticky Fingered Texas Cop The backstory unfolds last December, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) got a tip that there was a veteran police officer on the Mesquite Police Department that was a thief: he was routinely taking money from cash taken during police searches. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 11:31 am by Michael Kraut
A report in the Chicago Tribune says that the Chicago Police Department sets up DUI checkpoints almost exclusively in African American and Latino sections of the city. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 11:31 am by Michael Kraut
A report in the Chicago Tribune says that the Chicago Police Department sets up DUI checkpoints almost exclusively in African American and Latino sections of the city. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 7:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Good for the Austin city council for taking this on.Austin police chief orders arrests for crimes cops can't proveIn other Austin PD news, Grits finds bizarre Chief Bryan Manley's position that the department will continue to arrest and cite people for marijuana possession after the City Council forbade them from doing the lab testing to prove THC levels were above .3% and the substance could be distinguished from hemp. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 8:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See Chuck Lindell's Statesman coverage, the majority opinion, and Keller's dissent.Houston On the HookA federal judge refused to let the city of Houston out of a lawsuit over a bad police shooting in part because the department has never in recent memory held officers accountable when they unjustifiably kill someone.UnpreparedWhat's a judge to do when neither the DA nor defendants are prepared for trial? [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:47 pm by [email protected]
A few weeks later, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he intends to restrict the department’s use of these raids, reported Texas Monthly. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:47 pm by [email protected]
A few weeks later, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he intends to restrict the department’s use of these raids, reported Texas Monthly. [read post]
28 Aug 2021, 1:17 pm by John Floyd
  The permitless gun carry law came when the Houston Police Department reported on the 172nd day of 2021 that Houston had 66 more homicides this year than it had last year at the same time—222 homicides 2021; 156 in 2020. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 7:52 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
To understand why car thefts rose in 2022 while other types of crime fell, USAFacts compiled data from hundreds of police departments and requested more specific data about Kia and Hyundai thefts from over 60 departments nationwide. [read post]