With that kind of output, I've no illusions too many people will go back to read Grits' voluminous archives, but if you're interested in sampling what I've been writing on this blog in 2005, I've compiled a more or less representative linkfest below:
January
- Senate testimony in Houston on flawed crime labs
- Brandon Moon: Give prisoners open records access
- A Fourth Amendment for the 21st century
- TX troopers teach profiling to mounties
- Accuracy optional in forensic science?
- Guest blogger Alan Bean: Daily coverage of Tulia cop Tom Coleman's perjury trial
- Fiscal note fantasy world
- Oklahoma meth law overhyped
- Drug task force cites Grits in federal court motion
- Unaccountable drug task forces boost liability everywhere
- Snitching undermines justice institutions
- A snitch in time
- Ending drug task force boosts drug enforcement in Lubbock
- Whither loyalty in the war on meth?
- Police oversearching not all about race
- Austin drivers refuse searches when they know they can
- Bleeding Red Ink: Why LBB is to blame for bloated prison budgets
- How often do drivers refuse consent to search at traffic stops?
- Safer with surveillance cameras or just more exposed?
- Why surveillance cameras don't reduce crime
- Biometric passwords risk gravest form of identity theft
- Drug courts = solution to meth epidemic in Piney Woods
- Passing along police lies
- Pack your pistola and hit the road
- Why drug task forces must go 101
- Texas criminal law not just for criminals anymore
- Left and right join to bash Byrne grants in D.C.
- LBB hasn't learned there's no free lunch
- 'Strange coalition' backs consent search ban
- Senator faces police retaliation over bills
- Using camera phone at movie theater Texas' most likely 1,942nd felony
- Texas right confronts 'overcriminalization'
- Where are the small government conservatives? (links to biometrics coverage)
- Prosecutor: War on drugs is just like beating your dog
- Task forces get more supervision instead of the axe
- Federal 'No More Tulias' legislation filed
- Written consent protects Texans' rights and prosecutors cases
- Written consent preferred by Texas prosecutors' manual
- Texas Lege avoided $1 billion in new prisons
- Perry vetoes key public safety bills
- Perry's vetoes worse than reported
- Harris revokes probation most among big Texas counties
- Illegal drugs 14% of world ag exports
- Blogs' role in political campaigns
- Blogs, Jazz and Message Development
- Failure to treat dyslexia increases crime
- Sun Tzu and the Art of Opposition Research, Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six
- HPD crime lab showed 'indifference to right and wrong'
- Texas prisons overflowing, now what?
- Cameras wrong response to London bombings
- Making sure ex-prisoners can find employment
- Tradeoffs: Mexican cartels boost meth involvement
- Harris County bail and jail series linked here
- Drug war no longer a growth industry in Texas
- ACLU vs. police union on interpreting racial profiling data
- Silver linings: Probation strengthening measures Perry didn't veto
- Texas news sources and methods
- Will .0056 grams of meth get you high?
- DEA nostalgic for alcohol prohibition
- Texas' new carry law: What does it mean?
- Bail policies juice Tarrant jail overcrowding
- Does Tarrant County need a public defender?
- Do Texas counties violate drug offenders' right to a speedy trial?
- Why are Texas county jails overcrowded? Pretrial detention
- Oklahoma meth law not working
- Hutchison immigration plan harms public safety
- Tell me immigration opponents, what's the big deal?
- Grits on Travis County's probation department: Parts one, two, and three
- McLennan County 'snuffs' Agriplex task force
- Tom DeLay sees everyday Texas justice
- Blame game misses point on Hidalgo jail overcrowding
- Governor getting one-sided advice from CJAC appointees
- Rocha case shows Austin police oversight toothless
- Biometrics slope got slippery awfully quick
- The surprising economics of unsanctioned immigration
- New Hidalgo public defender spurred by jail overcrowding
- Grits' best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding
- Research needed to tell if fewer arrests increases crime
- Mexican border wars
- Are Texas courts one big plea mill?
- Seeds of a new centrism?
- Don't snitch, Jack (with links to other Grits snitch clips)
- Tarrant County bail politics keeps jail full
- Bad idea from Texas exported to Britain
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1 comment:
Happy New Year, Scott. May 2006 treat you better. Thanks for reading my blog and for the quotes.
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