Police reform roundup

Let's clear a few browser tabs; here are some odds and ends that recently caught my attention and may also interest Grits readers:

• Houston Chronicle: Chief Harris County trial prosecutor resigns over post comparing Black Lives Matter to Nazis.
• Houston Chronicle: Houston City Council hears calls for police reform, improved oversight board, reduced police budget. Here's another article on Houston's weak and ineffective civilian oversight board.
• SA Express News: Arbitrator reinstates SA cop fired for using the N-word. The police union says it's no worse than the mayor saying "Goddamn" (as in, "Everybody knows about Mississippi, Goddamn!").
• Austin Statesman: A state lawmaker asks about a cop's duty to stop other cops' transgressions.
• Dallas Morning News: Texas should make police bodycams and citizen complaints public. 
• Texas Tribune: A Fort Worth police officer whose uncle died in police custody hopes departments can change.
• Austin Gonzo: APD's Budget: What would you get rid of?
• New Yorker: How police could be defunded.
• Vox: How police unions became so powerful and how they can be tamed.
• NY Times: Watch this protest turn from peaceful to violent in 60 seconds.
• Here's the Colorado police reform bill including elimination of qualified immunity in state civil rights cases. Here's the Denver Post's summary of the bill.
• Congressional Research Service: "No-Knock" Warrants and Other Law Enforcement Identification Considerations.
• From academia: Pension forfeiture and police misconduct.