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8 Oct 2011, 6:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The US Justice Department awarded Houston PD a three-year COPS grant for 25 new officers, paying for their salaries and costs for three years before the city will be expected to pick up the tab. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A program in Houston raises the question: Should they be deployed along with or instead of police officers? [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 6:56 pm by Michael O'Hear
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]
27 Dec 2009, 9:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Potentially, Mayor Annise Parker could avoid this particular battle by making sure the new police chief is on board with removing Houston's crime lab from the police department altogether and making it independent - possibly collaborating with other jurisdictions to create a long-discussed regional crime lab. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As much as one might like to, I don't see how it's possible to legislate away the discretion of elected District Attorneys to exercise routine lenience toward criminal defendants employed by police departments. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 7:00 pm
The incident is the basis of a federal civil rights lawsuit against the officer and the city of Houston, alleging that Archer raped the woman and that the Houston Police Department allowed a sexual predator to patrol the streets. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 7:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In reaction, Lillian Aguirre Ortiz from Mental Health America of Greater Houston forwarded me a couple of documents assessing outcomes of a pilot program at the Houston Police Department. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 10:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I don't care if he votes against it, but the fear is he'll refuse to give the bill a vote.Progressive policing modelEvery city council member in the state should read this article on improvements to policing practices in Milwaukee. [read post]
11 May 2011, 8:27 am by Judicial Watch Blog
Among them are the Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and District of Columbia police departments. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 12:00 pm by Charles Johnson
The Best Houston DWI lawyer will be familiar with the city and county of your offense and should know how that jurisdiction treats DWI cases like yours. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 8:54 am by Heather Mac Donald
Fryer found that police officers in Houston were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot blacks than whites (p. 50; he concluded that there was no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings there. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 2:46 pm by Dani Selby
The same day that New York repealed 50-A, Houston’s district attorney concluded that Gerald Goines, a narcotics officer with the Houston Police Department, likely lied about a drug deal for which he arrested George Floyd in 2004. [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 9:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Credit first-rate reporting by the Morning News, but also the luck of the draw that Eiserer and her colleagues don't happen to work as reporters in a jurisdiction where most police officer discipline remains secret, as would have been the case in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and around 70 other departments out of the 2,600+ law enforcement agencies in Texas. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 2:41 pm by AWoog
  The most dangerous city in Texas, Odessa, has not reported a single officer-involved shooting since September. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 1:26 pm by John Floyd
  Houston Leads Texas Cities in Fatal Police Shootings    The Post report revealed that more than 2,500 police departments shot and killed at least one person between 2015 and 2019. [read post]
21 Sep 2019, 7:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Despite the rarity of such developments, the head of the local police union was quoted saying the indictments were evidence of anti-police bias.DPS out of Dallas, with mixed reviewsThe Department of Public Safety has ended its deployment in Dallas launched by the governor earlier this year. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 9:37 am by Naureen Shah
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will deploy Border Patrol’s special forces-style unit, known as BORTAC, and other Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents — dressed in plainclothes — into Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit, and Newark. [read post]
28 Feb 2021, 8:28 am by John Floyd
Located in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay area, the city’s police department has a history of heavy militarization, systemic racism, excessive force, failure to enforce body camera policies, and a range of other misconduct issues. [read post]