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31 Jan 2021, 5:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Meanwhile, with Austin considering decoupling its 911 call center from police department (as Houston and many other jurisdictions have done), I was interested to see this academic article, "Calling the Police: Dispatchers as Important Interpreters and Manufactuers of Call for Service Data. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 9:34 am by John Floyd
Releasing non-violent, low-risk arrestees will ease the burden on local sheriff’s departments and allow jail space for more serious, high-risk defendants. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 12:09 pm by John Floyd
Nonetheless, in 2012, the voters of Ft Bend County elected Nehls as their county sheriff. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But in Houston, the discretion lies entirely with the Chief, who resists releasing video when it makes the department look bad.IPOB members complained that some cases lacked BWC footage because officers didn't turn on their devices. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 1:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Sheriffs were in charge of that process.After the Civil War, municipal police departments (then called City Marshals) began undertaking their own patrols, starting in Austin and Houston. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 7:31 am by [email protected]
Between March 13 and May 5, there were 57 homicides in Houston, according to the Houston Police Department. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 4:18 am by Texas Legal News
At this time, the Houston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating to determine the cause of the crash. [read post]
29 Aug 2020, 11:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While Grits cannot claim to have performed a comprensive search, among local departments (excluding Sheriffs, who have a separate history) the Nacogdoches Police Department, established in 1837, was the oldest police force in Texas your correspondent can identify. [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 11:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 Just under 90 percent of the motorists stopped by Todd Ganey, a Richmond Police Department officer assigned to the team, were Black or Hispanic, according to 2019 records from the Fort Bend Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the task force. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See also a video "community conversation" sponsored by the Austin Justice Coalition on the topic of social workers and policing.SWAT for ShowIn Williamson County, the Sheriff would deploy the SWAT team to execute search warrants to make things more exciting for a reality TV show that was filming at the department. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 12:30 pm by John Ross
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Disloyal sheriff's deputies get the ax and Euclidean policing. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 1:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Their proportion of local budgets have grown.We're not just talking about the state's 254 county Sheriffs or its 1,800 or so municipal police departments. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 11:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
We ramped up and provided law enforcement and the police departments so many protections and really loosened the accountability metrics through state legislation and even local policy. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 12:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Meanwhile, the Houston Chronicle has called for beefing up civilian oversight at Houston PD and the Harris County Commissioners Court wants to create oversight mechanisms for the sheriff and constables' offices at the county level. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 4:26 am by Texas Legal News
At this time, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the cause of the crash. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 11:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Tom Coleman worked for one of (at the time) 51 multi-county "regional narcotics task forces" which employed more than 700 narcotics officers across Texas. [read post]