Grits for Breakfast

Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the ...

I had cause this morning to dig around in Texas' 2023 traffic-stop data, so decided to post a few high/lowlights. This data, published a...

The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Alway...

An old-school tough-on-crime campaign has been launched in the Travis County Democratic primary by Some Guy I've Never Heard Of named Je...

My next neighborhood history zine, Icarus in Heels and Fur, comes out February 22nd. Without exaggeration, I think it may be the best thing...

My mind has only partially been on anything criminal-justice related, lately, as I finished up the second of my little neighborhood history ...

Having taken all of 2023 off, my spouse absolving me of all income generation responsibilities for the year, I left this humble blog to lie ...

For folks in Austin, please come to Grits' zine launch Sunday, July 23rd, from 2-4 p.m.. We're going to record interviews w/ me and ...

With the paltry rate of posting on Grits, you might have thought I was no longer writing. But I'm pleased to announce a new zine I'v...

I.C. Lord was the City Marshal in Houston following the Civil War who is credited with turning the Houston Police Department into a modern p...

On Saturday, per his request, I spoke at Jeff Blackburn's memorial service about our work together in the aftermath of the Tulia drug st...

While I've been away from the blog recently, much of my time has been spent on a side project researching negro-league baseball in Texas...

For the past year, Austin has deployed a group of community folks and city staff to analyze the curriculum at the police academy and suggest...

During my three decades working on criminal-justice reform, when abortion came up, your correspondent always took the attitude, "That...