Grits for Breakfast

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&#...

Conversations about crime data and police and prosecutor files most frequently pertain to the news of the moment: Did bail reform cause crim...

Speeding with light and sirens is among the most dangerous things police officers do on the job, and about as likely to get officers or civi...

Your correspondent has not been writing here recently because I'm in the process of evaluating the continued effectiveness of making fac...

Let's talk for a moment about public safety in Austin. The argument for Prop A - the GOP-backed initiative to force the city of Austin t...

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg issued a 56-page report disputing the findings of federal bail monitors overseeing the settlement...

The following is a guest blog post co-authored by Elizabeth Rossi of Civil Rights Corps and Amanda Woog of the Texas Fair Defense Project. T...

Your correspondent hasn't been writing on Grits during the latest special session because it wasn't a time when Texas state leaders ...

Everybody hates speed traps. There are few things more annoying than driving along a state highway at 70 mph then having it ratchet down to ...

In Austin, the Republican-led group that ran a successful ballot initiative criminalizing homelessness has put another one on the ballot for...