Showing posts with label sex crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex crimes. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

What the jury didn't hear, against SWAT raids for routine search warrants, bail explainers, courthouse architecture, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Margaret Moore, Rosa Jimenez, and what the jury didn't hear Wei...
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Thursday, February 06, 2020

Alleged staff-on-staff sexual assault at Stiles Unit

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A recent lawsuit alleged three prison guards at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont sexually assaulted a female colleague, The Appeal reported in  a...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Sheriff candidate targeted for refusing to train detectives in Reid technique, prioritizing rape victims ... and this is an attack, how?

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Until now, Austin PD brass, investigative reporters who studied the case, and Sgt. Liz Donegan all agreed: Donegan was removed as head of th...
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Monday, December 16, 2019

Texas should raze last, large youth prisons in light of high sex-victimization rates

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics came out with a new report last week declaring that one in seven youth prison inmates in Texas are sexuall...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Humpty Dumpty, the Castle Doctrine, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Humpty Dumpty and the Castle Doctrine The judge in former Dallas ...
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Friday, February 15, 2019

Austin's Chief Manley blames victims for misunderstanding his victim-blaming comments

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Austin Police Chief Bryan Manley apologized if rape victims felt he had blamed them in his department's coverup surrounding inflated se...
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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Austin Police Chief is the last person who should be giving other chiefs advice on rape-clearance rate data!

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Bizarrely, Austin Police Chief Bryan Manley is scheduled to speak to the Major Cities Police Chiefs' Association in Washington D.C. thi...
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Friday, February 01, 2019

Third party will review rape-clearance data that spurred ouster of Austin PD division chief

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Last night, the Austin City Council voted to have a third party review years worth of cases to discover the extent to which the Police Dep...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

More than a clerical error: DPS audit proves Austin PD forced out sex-crimes chief for refusing to fake clearance rates

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Auditors from the Texas Department of Public Safety  confirmed allegations that the Austin Police Department pressured the head of its sex-c...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Conflation of punishment with price system distorts justice in sex-assault cases

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We live in an era when "justice" has been defined largely in terms of the price system, as though it were subject to laws of suppl...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Austin police chief needs better responses to whistleblower allegations of improperly cleared rape cases

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After the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX aired complaints in a podcast from an Austin PD whistleblower claiming she'd been p...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Whistleblower: Austin PD fudged rape clearance rates to boost numbers, pretend hundreds of crimes were solved when no arrests were made

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A former Austin police sergeant who was in charge of APD's sex crimes unit claims she was forced out after refusing to clear cases where...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018

So many questions about H-Town sex-robot ban

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Even the Chronicle's headline, " City Council may move to block sex robots near Galleria ," raises so many questions .... ...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

New TJJD sex-abuse allegations recall similar, but different '07 scandals

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For anyone paying attention a decade ago, news of sex-assault allegations against staff at a Texas youth prison in Gainesville brings on a  ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Most TDCJ sex assault victims housed in just a few units, most victimized by staff

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Here are a few highlights from a recent report on sexual assault in TDCJ put out by the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and the Pr...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Acting Houston chief declined to engage in Halloween sex offender hype

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Source Grits has complained for years   about law enforcement hyping the dangers of sex-offenders on Halloween. IMO they're politic...
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