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1 Mar 2011, 8:30 am
Such carelessness is so egregious that local police have arrested the women running the day-care center. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 5:08 am
It's hardly clear that the Houston police are any more brutal or abusive than any other police department, but the video of Chad Holley being used as a kicking bag is the sort of thing to galvanize interest. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 4:31 am
In Houston, police brutality incidents caught on video have spurred calls for a civilian review board (with "supboena power," of course), or perhaps a police monitor like we have here in Austin. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 5:16 am
Also today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and HHS announced the expansion of Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations to two additional cities – Dallas and Chicago. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 12:34 pm
The Houston Police Department has once again announced another Houston DWI Initiative aimed at reducing the number of DWI accidents and DWI fatalities in the Harris County area. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 6:04 am
Comments from a former police chief, now on the Houston city council, sum up the common, gut-wrenching reaction:"Having worn the uniform of the Houston Police Department for 24 years, I am thoroughly embarrassed by what I see on the tape," said Councilman C.O. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 8:30 pm
This is a six-member citizen board that oversees the city’s fire and police departments. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 6:56 pm
The Milwaukee Police Department recently supplied the members of the Fire and Police Commission (including yours truly) with some quite interesting data on violent crime rates within the nation’s 50 poorest cites. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 12:44 pm
In Houston, about 16,000 rape kits, some dating back decades, sit in the police department’s property room, said Irma Rios, assistant director of the department's crime lab. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 1:55 pm
There is no reason to exclude arson from the scope of the commission, since scores of people sit in our prisons based on arson investigators' testimony.It is frightening that even though they can't produce a scientist who doesn't believe the Willingham arson investigation was botched, both the Corsicana Police Department and the State Fire Marshal's Office maintain that it was a good investigation. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 11:46 am
A suspected intoxicated driver crashed into a Houston Police Department vehicle early today according to news reports. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 10:00 am
Houston. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 1:59 am
It was after that Houston parks and police officials began pressing the permit issue.The Herrings and officials with the Department of Health and Human Services were talking past each other on Friday as the story of "Houston forbids good Samaritans from feeding homeless" went viral. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 3:25 pm
City Council is considering a bill that would move the crime laboratory from police control into a new department of forensics under the mayor. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 7:41 am
The state’s two largest districts with stand-alone police departments, Dallas and Houston ISDs, could not provide any requested student arrest data. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 2:30 pm
Yahoo http://ow.ly/3wXfQ # Ethan Zuckerman on Public Spaces, Private Infrastructure: private co's often de facto gatekeepers of 1st Amendment, http://ow.ly/3x4cj # Similar in-depth piece on public/private overlap in policing information from Jillian York http://ow.ly/3x4ge # the long dark tea time of my soul is almost over @dsilverman Verizon iPhone 4 accessories appear . . . very briefly. http://bit.ly/hyRJ8S # Fascinating history of the forces shaping the destiny of the world's… [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 4:20 pm
Now that the federal FY 2010 has come and gone, here's an account of grants given to Texas recipients in the last year from the National Institute of Justice, compiled from this source:City of Austin, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $182,097 Houston PD Crime Lab, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $1,143,339 Bexar County, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $127,119 State of Texas, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $2,401320 Tarrant County, Forensic DNA Backlog… [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 7:53 am
One recent Gothamist report ran with an image of a NYC police car parked atop the green bike lane. [read post]
6 Nov 2010, 6:47 am
The May 2009 contract has a termination clause that requires the city to provide the company with a 120-day notice of cancellation, a period when the cameras will still be in full operation and civil fines issued, according to the city attorney.Now the Mayor says elminating the cameras will require multi-million dollar cuts to the police department budget:Mayor Annise Parker acknowledged the referendum has exacerbated ongoing challenges with the … [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 8:09 am
"The Houston Police Department joined Secure Communities and started using the same databases in mid-December. [read post]
