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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 ...

Debates around the Texas George Floyd Act have revived discussions of accountability in drug enforcement that first arose two decades ago fo...

In 2020, the phrase "defund the police" captured the public imagination, for good or ill, and became the centerpiece of conservati...

State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa called this morning to reminisce about the effort to rein in and, ultimately, de-fund, Texas' ...

On Twitter, a reader came up with a blast from the past, asking whatever happened to Texas' multi-jurisdictional drug task forces, whic...

Inimai Chettiar of the Brennan Center will speak at the LBJ School in Austin today and as fate would have it she just co-wrote an essay in T...

In the course of twenty years in Texas' criminal-justice reform movement, Grits has enjoyed the good fortune to work with a bevy of amaz...

A team of corrupt Hidalgo County deputies and the son of the former Hidalgo Sheriff were sentenced to federal prison this week, concluding a...

A few, disparate items that caught my eye: J. Salvador fiasco impacts first case beyond Galveston The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has...

Long-time readers know that Texas eliminated its statewide system of drug task forces - funded through the federal Byrne grant program - in ...

Just a few odds and ends that didn't make it into their own, individual posts: Narcotics task force cops robbed drug dealers instead o...

Photo via The Texas Observer . Charles Workman, a Baptist minister, former city council member, and civil rights advocate in Hearne, Tex...

Long-time readers may recall that this blog's first couple of years devoted extensive coverage to the downfall of Texas system of region...

Long-time readers will recall that in Grits' earliest days ('04-06), this blog focused a great deal on the flaws and fallacies under...

A frequent theme on this blog is that support for Big Government solutions in the criminal justice arena is usually bipartisan, and here are...

Looking at the fine print of the new federal budget deal , several criminal justice items jumped out: $415 million for state and local law ...

Whenever I see reports of large drug stings like the one described this week in the Wichita Falls Times-Record News (" Sheriff expects ...

Back during the fight to shut down Texas' network of Tulia-style drug task forces, one of the key revelations that discredited those now...

Following news that the "Tulia law" requiring corroboration for informants in undercover drug stings is still working as intended ...