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9 Mar 2019, 9:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The city has a reputation as liberal, but these data evidence quite authoritarian policing practices compared to other large Texas jurisdictions.However, this isn't just a capital-city story. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 3:32 pm by Mark Bennett
The Houston Police Department Chief’s Command issued a memo of questionable legality forbidding cops from talking to defense lawyers without permission. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 12:44 am
How much more justified, then, would the state be to raid the City of Houston, which leads the nation in the number of pregnancies under age 15? [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 6:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In those and ten other Texas cities, local control of police and fire pensions has been wrested away by the Legislature and vested into independent bodies on which cities have a voice but unions (and the Lege) have ultimate control. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
”—Dwight Watson, author of Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990: A Change Did Come“This is a remarkably intelligent and well-researched book that will contribute much to our understandings of the history of criminal justice in the South and urban life under Jim Crow. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 8:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In a local story from the Valley about a change of leadership at the police union in the McAllen police department ("Police officers union to move forward under new leadership," Jan. 7), I was interested to see a reference to the union's losses in their recent contract negotiations. [read post]
18 May 2024, 12:43 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Houston Mayor John Whitmire previously said at least four other people were killed in the city when the storms swept through Harris County, which includes Houston. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 9:53 am
He maintained his innocence, but prosecutors built a case on the victim's identification of Taylor and the now-discredited testimony of a Houston Police Department crime lab analyst. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 8:52 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Everyone knows the Chief is never going to be prosecuted for tampering with witnesses, but our government officials shouldn’t be in the business of committing crimes just because they know nobody is going to prosecute them.This episode not only speaks poorly of whatever dark forces in the Houston Police Department or the City Attorney's office generated this troubling memo, it also shows how blogging has grown up in recent years. [read post]
3 May 2010, 6:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston won't be the last city looking to cut police budgets, but how they choose to do so may set the tone for how other Texas cities handle similar situations. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 10:46 am by John Floyd
§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the City of Baltimore and its police department. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 10:46 am by John Floyd
§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the City of Baltimore and its police department. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 10:46 am by John Floyd
§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the City of Baltimore and its police department. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 8:26 am by The Murray Law Firm
As reported by WPSDlocal6.com, “[t]he Martin Police Department is investigating the death of 19-year-old Cameron Houston from Union City after an early morning shooting in Martin, Tennessee, resulted in Houston dying of fatal gunshot wounds. [read post]
25 Jan 2015, 7:13 am by John H Curley
Grievant was employed as a detective in the Houston Police Department, employed in the homicide division. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 7:09 am
  LINK  A news article follows the editorial.More than four years after the discovery of hundreds of incidents of mishandled evidence and botched testing at the Houston Police Department's crime lab, an independent investigator has completed a $5.3 million probe with a final report. [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]
19 Jun 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Tweet Tags: crime and punishment, Department of Justice, Enron, NYC, police, prosecution, San Francisco, wrong rightPolice and prosecution roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
22 Aug 2009, 11:51 pm
Equal protection: Non-civil service agencies in cities whose main police department is covered under the state civil service code can find themselves in a situation where different labor rules cover different law enforcement employees, even when they have the same employer. [read post]