Grits for Breakfast

Go read Keri Blakinger's new Houston Chronicle story on the topic . Keri writes that, "female officers also have to contend with ha...

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

The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee the other day held an under-attended hearing  (hardly anyone in the audience and no quorum ...

In 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed life saving "Good Samaritan" legislation that would have let people call 911 when their friends o...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to respond to the Santa Fe school shooting by  cutting subsidies aimed at luring video game manufacturers to Texa...

My wife didn't previously know Milwaukee had an NBA team and couldn't pick Giannis Antetokounmpo out of a lineup. But the  Sterling ...

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

Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: Pam Colloff kicks ass Pam Colloff...

Officials in Tom Green County are telling the press and the public that the state owes counties some $2.6 billion for indigent defense costs...

Does God have a Texas accent? Mandy Marzullo and I address this and other pressing questions on the latest edition (May 2018) of Just Libert...

Before reading the rest of this post, relax, breathe, and follow the swinging pocket watch. Feeling suggestible? Great, now we can begin...

A Grits commenter suggested a fascinating and viable theory regarding the source of radical reductions in DWI arrests across Texas in recen...

Here are a few odds and ends that will simultaneously clear my browser tabs and point readers to a few interesting items about which I don...

An observant commenter suggested declines in DWI cases may have contributed to plummeting misdemeanor probation caseloads , and he raises a...

Here are a few odds and ends that merit readers' attention: Learning the ropes Politico ran a nice feature on Nueces County DA Mark G...

In response to federal heat litigation, reported Gaby Banks at the Houston Chronicle , "Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas ...

Grits recently calculated the ten-year change in rates for the proportion of adults under control of the correctional system in Texas from ...

On Twitter, Texas Observer editor Forrest Wilder came up with this blast from the past: An old Ann Richards tuff-on-crime commercial from 19...

Here are a few odds and ends to clear Grits' browser tabs of items which deserve readers' attention, even if I haven't gotten ar...

Now that the new Annual Statistical Report for the Texas judiciary is out, let's take a quick look at data on capital murder cases in T...