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A Dallas Morning News staff editorial last week touted blogger Awesomely Luvvie's platitudinous clickbait suggestions for what white ...

The Dallas Morning News editorial board has struggled of late to discern a viable path forward in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of fi...

For mostly historical, family reasons (both sides of my family are from the Texas Panhandle, with ties to Oklahoma), Grits has always enjoye...

Meagan Flynn at the Houston Press is right that Texas is ahead of the feds and the rest of the country right now on forensic science reform...

Among the settlement terms leaked to the press in the Sandra Bland case this week was a statement that the Texas Department of Public Safety...

Here are a few odds and ends which merit Grits readers' attention while I'm focused elsewhere today: Williamson County to allow ci...

With the Texas House County Affairs Committee poised to consider racial profiling at traffic stops, Grits went this morning to see if the n...

I appreciated Michele Deitch the other day offering an analysis of the Sandra Bland settlement from the perspective of regulating county ja...

Here are a few odds and ends which haven't made it into independent posts but merit Grits readers' attention: Beating (up) Devon A...

In the wake of the Austin Statesman's revelations regarding DPS racial profiling data (see Grits' earlier discussion , the House Co...

Today's news about the $1.9 million settlement of the lawsuit filed by Sandra Bland's family against the Waller County Jail and the ...

The Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission continues to trundle along months after your correspondent left its ranks and is scheduled to...

Recently the Texas Fair Defense Project joined with a national group and local counsel to sue Harris County over a money-bail system that ja...

The Austin Statesman's investigative team today published an excellent analysis of DPS racial profiling data regarding discretionary se...

With Labor Day off, let's take an opportunity to clear Grits' browser tabs of stories which won't immediately make it into indiv...

Nueces County DA Mark Skurka, having been ousted by voters in his primary and facing lame duck status, has clearly entered his "To hell...

Nota bene, Robert T. Garrett and other journalists covering the state budget process: When the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) c...

Perhaps the toughest part of police reform is that one is battling not just a few "rogue" officers nor even merely bad laws and po...

Grits contributing writer Eva Ruth Moravec, a former cops-and-courts beat reporter for the San Antonio Express News who's also covered t...

When Black Lives Matter activists approached Democratic congressional campaigns about criminal justice reform, the DCCC advised candidates a...