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PBS Frontline last night broadcast a nearly hour-long feature story titled "The Real CSI," focusing on forensic errors caused by ...

Yet more allegations of serious safety issues at the Gidding State School, indicating five years of reform and merger of agencies into the n...

The Washington Post's Spencer Hsu tackles a subject at the federal level (" Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws ...

Grits has alluded before that I'm no fan of the PolitiFact reporting model or others who parse public statements - often in the most n...

An attorney forwarded me data related to month-by-month Texas parole rates for various classes of offenders showing a slight nut noticeable ...

Grits has no firsthand knowledge of Williamson County District Attorney race, but judging from endorsements and fundraising, incumbent John ...

In Houston, the Harris County Commissioners Court and the City Council are missing a huge opportunity to collaborate on a new, independent c...

Here are a few odds and ends that may interest Grits readers: Austin Statesman: " Texas judges misdeeds often kept secret by oversigh...

Yesterday Grits offered up an account of the investigative panel on the El Paso crime lab at the Forensic Science Commission, and I chose t...

The ghost of John Bradley's Forensic Science Commission chairmanship rose from the grave to haunt another FSC investigation this morning...

Here are few, disparate items that merit Grits readers' attention: Mexican cartels in Texas 241 cartel operatives have been arrested ...

Grits has discussed recently whether "accreditation" of crime labs provides meaningful oversight, citing an appeal last year to t...

A great deal of crime is circumstantial and/or opportunistic: Change the circumstances, maybe crime doesn't occur in the first place. ...

Okay, here's a strange one. The headline in the New York Times Monday read: " Even as Violent Crime Falls, Killing of Officers Rise...

Grits was interested to see a report out of California about a supportive housing program created for the 30 most expensive, chronic homeles...

See an interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor about a boat builder from Maine who runs a non-profit facilitating victim-off...

After the body count from the Mexican cartel wars has ramped up over the last five years, there's finally beginning to be more consisten...

The Texas Juvenile Justice Department is compiling a report on how students in Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs (JJAEPs) perf...

Most police departments have not yet complied with a statutory deadline to report the number of untested rape kits in their possession as re...

Grits offered up these musings about Easter last year and thought I'd reprise them today: Easter is strikingly filled with criminal j...