Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Advice for Texas police reform activists outside the big counties: Interview with Chas Moore, plus was George Floyd set up by a crooked Houston narcotics cop? Texas' anachronistic 'riot' laws, and other stories

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Better late than never, here's the June episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, co-hosted by me and Amanda Marzullo...
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Monday, June 29, 2020

Police reform roundup

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Let's clear a few browser tabs; here are some odds and ends that recently caught my attention and may also interest Grits readers: Ho...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Rodriguez must navigate attack over botched #SandraBland vote

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Regular readers will recall the ignominious fate last year of Rep. James White's legislation, inspired by the Sandra Bland case, limitin...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Reform updates from Dallas, Houston, and Austin, a police-union hissy fit, how police spend their time, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends related to policing that merit Grits readers' attention: Big D Demands for Police Reform Check out a...
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Policing budgets and outcomes: A Catch 22

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Viewed broadly, America finds itself essentially at the bottom of a thirty-year crime decline. But as police have had less crime to respond ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Imagining a "George Floyd Act" for Texas

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has already suggested he'd be open to signing a "George Floyd Act" next legislative session, and legi...
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Monday, June 15, 2020

Roundup on policing and COVID in prisons

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Here are some recent articles Grits found enlightening that may interest readers as well: Policing More police-reform polling : Peop...
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Data sources on racial disparities in the Texas justice system

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Been asked a few times now by reporters where to get data about racial disparities in the Texas criminal-justice system. Were I assigned tha...
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Time to consider disbanding police departments in Texas (and no, I'm not calling to "abolish" police)

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Grits has been thinking a lot recently about the barriers to meaningful police reform in Texas and ways around them. Chief among those barri...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

George Floyd is Texas' new favorite son: Small-town protests change police-politics landscape, and make history in East Texas

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Protests in the big cities have received the most attention, but one of the most remarkable developments on the civil-rights front in Grit...
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Family: More to death-in-custody of Enrique Quiroz than official reports let on

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The police abuse cases that receive national attention like George Floyd typically are ones where a bystander captures the incident on cell-...
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Hundreds of complaints filed against police over Austin protests

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The Austin Office of Police Oversight received complaints from 606 people between May 29 and June 10, and is  recommending 227 separate com...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Austin Council demands reform; police chief touts toothless half measures

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Whether history will view the resolutions passed at the Austin City Council yesterday as a true turning point for policing in this city rema...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Big D city-council majority endorses defunding police agenda; other Texas cities may follow suit

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The Dallas City Council is considering its own defunding police agenda. Reported the Dallas Morning News : as the council tries to address...
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Protest fallout, remembering George Floyd, abolishing police in schools, coronavirus and the courts, and other stories

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Let's clear a few browser tabs with a roundup of odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Austin city council ready f...
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Man begged for his life while Williamson County deputy repeatedly tazed him, then he died

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At the Austin Statesman, Tony Plohetski has the story of a man killed by Williamson County Sheriff's deputies last year while reality-T...
Sunday, June 07, 2020

Austin City Council to consider limiting police use of force, no-confidence vote for police chief, in wake of recent protests

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Next Thursday, the Austin City Council will consider several resolutions related to policing issues in response to recent protests. Two in ...
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Saturday, June 06, 2020

Video of injured Austin protesters, Texas Monthly interviews Grits and Chas Moore, local TX GOP chairs tell on themselves, when cussing is (not) a crime, and other stories

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There's been so much coverage of policing issues in the last few days, rounding it all up would be an impossible task. But here are a fe...
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Friday, June 05, 2020

If Austin Police Chief Brian Manley won't resign, he needs a new job title

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In Austin, city legal staff has told City Manager Spencer Cronk that the state civil service code won't allow him to fire Chief Brian Ma...
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