Law enforcement misconduct roundup

I noticed several Texas police misconduct incidents that merit Grits readers' attention:

In Midland a constable pled guilty to a misdemeanor for misrepresentations to the state peace officer licensing agency (TCLEOSE), including allegedly tampering with documents submitted for licensing for a pair of officers. I found this notable because "the investigation was between [the constable] and the state. The county didn't bring any action" against him.
 
Fired Harris County Sheriff's deputy Richard Nutt was indicted for conspiring with three others to rob drug dealers. When he was arrested, a co-defendant "was driving and Nutt - wearing his Harris County Sheriff's Office police uniform and carrying his gun - was sitting in the front passenger seat, under which the packages of cocaine were hidden, reports show." 

Two Beaumont police officers received deferred adjudication and a year probation after allegedly falsifying records and tampering with documents related to a drug conviction which was overturned because of their misconduct. Bizarrely, the city is considering hiring them in a non-law enforcement capacity.

A Tarrant County jailer was given a two-year sentence for punching an inmate.

Having noticed these cases, I popped over to Injustice Everywhere which had recorded these additional recent incidents:

For starters, "the police chief of Gregory TX was arrested on criminal mischief and trespass charges on allegations that he, his wife, and a third person vandalized a car, though specifics weren’t available."

"A Center TX police detective has been charged with perjury over his grand jury testimony about a fight between two Shelby County deputies."

"A Houston TX police officer is under investigation after two witnesses stepped forward to contradict his version of a fatal shooting incident that left a young woman dead. While the officer claims he shot the robbery suspect when she pointed a gun at him and refused to drop it, the witnesses are saying they saw no gun and the officer opened fire immediately after he stepped out of his cruiser and announced himself."

"Three Houston TX police officers are under investigation on allegations that they rammed a woman’s head into the door frame of a police cruiser then beat her in a holding cell while she was cuffed after arrested on drunk driving charges."

Finally, though not "misconduct" per se, I was interested to read that the Corpus Christi PD witnessed "a year-over-year more-than-doubling of narcotics-related money seizures." That could be due to one or two large seizures and not necessarily indicative of a trend, but IMO it becomes problematic when agencies shift policing resources for the purpose of boosting asset seizures. It's one thing when that money comes in as a result of routine policing, quite another when forfeiture becomes the goal of routine policing. If that's a metric by which CCPD is judging "success," it's a bad idea.