Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Four stories let public peer into soul of Houston justice system

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The justice system can be difficult to understand for experts and darn near impossible for laypeople. Grits believes that's in part beca...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

Houston Mayor's Policing Task Force Recap, Part 3: Mental-health first response, What counts as diversion?, the 'all-purpose panacea promoted by people who oppose policy change,' and other stories

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Here's Part 3 of Grits' tripartite, annotated analysis of the new report from the Houston Mayor's Task Force on Policing Reform...
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Thursday, October 01, 2020

Task Force on reforming Houston police: Empower oversight board, remove civil-service barriers to accountability at #txlege, and have someone besides the DA prosecute police misconduct (Grits has a suggestion)

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"The loss of public trust and credibility makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the police to forge partnerships in local communit...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

On the dangers of dick-ish drug enforcement, racist cop rose in Austin PD ranks, indigent defense denied in Amarillo, and other stories

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Just in time for the drive to Grandma's house, here's the November 2019 episode* of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

The Art of Deflection: HPD chief shows how to blame judges for policing failures

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Police chiefs in Harris County continue to attack bail reform - most recently Houston police chief Art Acevedo - but the examples given neve...
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Sunday, September 15, 2019

Local press calls out Houston mayoral candidates' false statements on crime

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Challengers in local political races love to engage in demagoguery about crime and try to blame the incumbents. That becomes a tad more diff...
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Saturday, February 16, 2019

Why we know so little about the bad cop at the center of the botched Houston drug raid

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A couple of weeks ago, Grits raised numerous questions about a drug-raid-gone-bad in Houston that left four officers shot and two homeowner...
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Saturday, February 02, 2019

Eleven unanswered questions about the botched police raid in Houston

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Four officers were shot and two suspects and their dog are dead after a botched narcotics raid in Houston. Friends and family of the decease...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Do ankle monitors on parolees make anyone safer?

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In response to episodes where two different parolees being supervised by ankle monitors reportedly committed murder, one of them allegedly k...
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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Suggested rules for using Precision Immobilization Technique

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At the Houston Chronicle, St. John Barned-Smith has a story on Houston PD's decision to use the "Precision Immobilization Technique...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A few facts and an observation about labor economics, immigration politics, and the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

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If readers will forgive an off-topic aside, here are a few facts and a quick observation regarding Texan labor economics, Hurricane Harvey, ...
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Monday, January 02, 2017

How Houston police officers are (not) held accountable for bad shoots

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The Houston Chronicle's Lise Olsen and her colleague James Pinkerton have been pulling back the curtain on Houston PD police shootings o...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Underfunded police pensions plague big Texas cities

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Texas police and fire pensions in the big cities are a mess the legislature is ill-prepared to deal with in the coming 85th session. The cos...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Bodycams and transparency: Houston PD edition

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Just got an email from the good folks at KHOU. It read in part: In an era of smartphones and social media, body cameras have become increa...
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Monday, November 07, 2016

Houston PD pension mess could spur officer departures. Should we care?

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Houston PD could see more officers retire soon as a result of the proposed pension deal Mayor Sylvester Turner negotiated with the unions, r...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Police pension bailouts, dreaming of Oklahoma, and other nightmarish scenarios on Halloween

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A few things, while I've got you: Lab delays spur boost in Nueces Co. personal bond use In Corpus Christi, prosecutors have enacted a...
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