Sunday, December 20, 2009

Do small police agencies need redundant SWAT capacity? Budget crisis changing the debate

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With the TV show Dallas SWAT, the Dallas PD's SWAT team gained national fame, but less attention has been paid to the fact that, accord...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Austin chief can't bypass officer for promotion who visited brothel on vacation

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Police accountability in this state is seriously hindered by the state civil service code , which governs police discipline, promotions and ...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

'Strategies for Hiring the Hidden Worforce'

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The headline of this post is the title of an education workshop for employers sponsored yesterday by the local chamber of commerce in Waco, ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Can Dallas really trust declining crime statistics?

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Falling crime statistics in Dallas are great, editorialized the Morning News (" Crime statistics must be accurate ," Dec. 16), but...
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Evidence-based practices described to judges at state sentencing conference

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I wasn't able to take notes during Ed Latessa's lively lecture to the recent state sentencing conference for judges, DAs and probati...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Radnofsky responds defending open records stance

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After Charles Kiker forwarded her this morning's Grits post and my addendum in the comments that discussed her open records stance , I...
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Prosecutors' performance hard to measure: Excellent reporting out of Waco shows gaps in DA data

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The McLennan County District Attorney is facing his first serious electoral challenge in a generation next year, and the Waco Tribune-Herald...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

AG Greg Abbott presiding over dark hour for Texas open records

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Over the years I've sometimes praised Attorney General Greg Abbot for being reasonably good on his open records decisions, but data publ...
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Eyewitnesses miss big changes in their environment, like the person in front of them

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An alert reader points to this remarkable video of an experiment regarding "change blindness" to judge how observant (or not) aver...
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Travis County planning to launch veterans court

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Having written over the weekend about the rise of Texas veterans courts, I was pleased to see Travis County announce they'd also create...
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Forensic Science commissioner resigns to avoid revealing public info

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Somehow I'd missed that one of Governor Perry's recent appointees to the Texas Forensic Science Commission - Bexar County Medical Ex...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

Rumor of the Day: Shanda Perkins for TYC Ombudsman?

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This is probably idle speculation and I ignored it as highly unlikely when I first heard the rumor (which is all it is right now), but no fe...
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Duncanville's million dollar camera: Tribune expose' details red-light ticket revenue

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I mostly quit tracking minutiae regarding red-light cameras after I left the ACLU of Texas and nobody was paying me to follow what had becom...
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US Department of Agriculture needs to stay out of jail building business

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I make an effort on this blog to track as comprehensively as possible all the various sources of expansion in incarceration capacity in Texa...
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Elections, Judicial Conduct Commission, provide too little accountability for judges

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In the Dallas News, Diane Jennings has an article on the state Commission on Judicial Conduct (" State Commission on Judicial Conduct ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Mixed messages on graffiti in Nueces County: Will 8 year sentence solve anything?

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I'm sure the judge who gave this sentence did so believing it would "send a message," but the message it sends to me is that ...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Texas veterans courts an aggressive version of problem-solving jurisprudence

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During the 81st Texas Legislature a little-noticed amendment to SB 1940 may have launched the most comprehensive, aggressive brand of ...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Exonerees, lawyers fees and innocence compensation: A personal perspective on an ugly dispute

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I'm going to speak out of school a bit to offer a personal perspective on a dispute covered today in the Dallas News involving my former...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Tactics to reduce Nueces County jail crowding not so different from elsewhere

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The Corpus Christi Caller Times this week editorialized (" Jail population reduction should be a priority ," Dec. 8) that Nueces C...
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