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8 Aug 2011, 5:51 am
A pair of recent stories about Congressional testimony last week, including from Texas DPS chief Steve McCraw related to Mexican drug cartels provided new information and deserve Grits readers' attention:El Paso Times: Report: Mexican Drug cartels adopting military tactics New York Times: US widens its role in battle against Mexican drug cartels Relatedly several other stories about the battle against Mexican drug smuggling merit mention: Reuters: Top Mexico trafficker claims… [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 12:23 pm
Steve McCraw, himself not a fan of the surcharge, told the commission that staff would be bringing them the rule changes soon.Several related issues Grits raised with commissioners:First, for whatever it's worth, I asked the PSC to consider holding another Amnesty sometime in the relatively near future, hopefully with a couple of upgrades to the process from this spring. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 7:09 am
That could just be because cartel leaders are smart enough not to s%*t where they sleep: According to Steve McCraw, head of DPS and formerly the Governor's top homeland security adviser, "command and control" of feuding Mexican gangs for the most part operates on the American side of the border.At the Texas Observer, though, Melissa del Bosque describes another type of "spillover" that crime stats don't account for ("Borderline Paranoia,"… [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 6:43 am
Reported Nolan Hicks, "DPS Director Steve McCraw testified that it could cost as much as $125 million per biennium to provide southbound operations for all of the checkpoints. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 11:29 am
") In particular, the idea of using checkpoints for immigration checks or nabbing asset-forfeiture income basically ran aground on the rocky shores of reality:A long parade of witnesses, including the El Paso District Attorney and DPS Director Steve McCraw, pointed out specific ways that drivers license checkpoints can run afoul of the 4th Amendment. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 1:41 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder and Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Cleve Foster and Humberto Leal contended that a DEA registration number used to purchase the three execution drugs is registered to a non-existent hospital — in possible violation of state and federal law. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:34 am
But outside that "point of no return," said Kepple, state law enforcement has no authority to conduct suspicion-less searches at checkpoints.DPS already has authority to do DL/insurance checkpoints, but has never prioritized them or implemented policies to perform them, DPS chief Steve McCraw told the committee (taking some of the wind out of Chairman Williams' SB 9, scheduled to come up later in the hearing). [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 9:12 am
The Statesman's Mike Ward reported ("Senators, DPS eye millions in seized drug money," Feb. 22):DPS Director Steve McCraw had just testified that federal officials now estimate that as much as $28 billion a year in cash goes from the United States across the border into Mexico.Two-thirds of that goes through Texas, he estimated. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 8:19 pm
Despite the hundreds of millions dollars spent for state-initiated border-security operations, neither the governor nor Steve McCraw, the state’s homeland security and public safety director, have provided documentation of the impact of Border Star. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 9:11 am
Steve Ogden in 2007, envisioned reducing fees for compliant drivers as well as those who'd defaulted. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 9:24 pm
What DPS director Steve McCraw calls the Texas “paradigm of border security” began coalescing in 2005, as Governor Perry was preparing his election campaign and as the national immigration debate was heating up. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 2:48 pm
"Yet neither Governor Perry nor DPS Director Steve McCraw have pointed to the central role of a private consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia in the design and implementation of the state’s border security strategy and operations. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 5:27 pm
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]
14 Oct 2010, 3:04 pm
Steve Ogden's legislation authorizing DPS' new rules. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 6:01 am
” When asked in a House Public Safety Committee hearing if the surcharge had reduced the number of DWIs or increased the number of Texas drivers with insurance, Department of Public Safety executive director Steve McCraw replied "No sir, not at all. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 12:08 pm
The current waiting period for forensic requests is 9.75 months, said McCraw, who admitted that was "unacceptable. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 11:17 am
Meanwhile, it's notable that the Michigan House of Representatives recently voted to eliminate their driver responsibility program entirely, despite persistent budget shortfalls, because of essentially similar complaints as those lodged against Texas' program, which even DPS chief Steve McCraw admits provides no tangible public safety benefit.Dallas constable traffic slots on chopping block Dallas County formally eliminated 80 positions in constable traffic divisions… [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 8:13 pm
I thought it curious that it was buried in the Opinion section of the Statesman, as "Commentary" by "Steve McCraw, Local Contributor. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 4:59 pm
Stephen Frost asked Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw whether there is any evidence that Texas' Driver Responsibility Program (DRP) improves public safety or has increased the number of drivers with insurance. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:09 am
Sylvester Turner's HB 2161, which requires Texas state agencies to facilitate getting drivers' licenses to former inmates upon release.Although Turner's legislation directed DPS to enter a memorandum of understanding with TDCJ and the Department of State Health Services to get departing inmates ID, DPS Director Steve McCraw testified at yesterday's House Corrections Committee hearing that he wasn't willing to commit to complying, claiming to do… [read post]
