Showing posts with label HPD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HPD. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Does the S in SWAT stand for suicide?

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Someone calls in threatening to commit suicide ? Sure, send out the camouflage-wearing, automatic weapon toting play soldiers of the SWAT...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Mayor wants to build new crime lab

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Harris County already has a crime lab. It's called the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences . It was created out of the old medi...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Runaway grand jury closes up shop

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Yesterday the grand jury investigating the Harris County District Attorney's Office announced that it was not issuing any indictments . ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A demotion

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Now, lest anyone think I'm biased with regard to the unmitigated disaster known as the HPD breath alcohol testing van (BAT van) program...
Friday, December 16, 2011

I'll have a fifth, please

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On Thursday morning, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Rachel Palmer appeared before a grand jury looking into the troubled HPD mob...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Grand jury subpoenas top county officials in DWI probe

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Remember that "runaway" grand jury investigating the HPD BATmobiles ? Well, they're baaack... The county judge and two commi...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Judge calls top prosecutors on the carpet

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Oh, what tangled webs we weave... As you already may know (if you read Murray Newman's blog ), two top-ranking prosecutors and two co...
Monday, October 31, 2011

You can call it what you will, but it's still illegal

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You may remember Ruben Trejo , he's the former HPD sergeant who collided with a school bus on his way to work -- with an alcohol concent...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A rat in a trap

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As my colleague Murray Newman reported earlier today, four prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's Office were subpoenae...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Runaway jury

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The original purpose of the grand jury was to have a body that could review a case to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed. The...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Isn't it ironic? (Don't you think?)

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Sgt. Roy Marquez of the Houston Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Division (the guys in charge of the DWI task force) found himsel...
Monday, October 10, 2011

The sorcerer's apprentice: HPD version

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Somewhere deep inside the HPD fortress at 1201 Travis... Chief: So, we're looking for someone to take the helm of the DWI task force ...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

HPD officers disciplined for role in cover up

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The other shoe fell on Tuesday as seven police officers, including an assistant chief, were disciplined for their role in attempting to cov...

What a difference 12 hours makes

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Looking down from the 11th floor of the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center. In case you're not familiar with downtown Hous...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The wreckage of the batmobile

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I've written at length about the problems with the Houston Police Department's BATmobiles and I've written about the departure ...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Mayor Parker to voters: "Screw you!"

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In response to residents who voted to get rid of red light cameras, Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced that the cameras will being genera...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Today on candid camera...

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I guess sometimes the ol' eyes in the sky work to the benefit of the folks getting arrested. Angela Horton, who was relieved of her ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Accident rates decrease after red light cameras taken down

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You'd never know it if you relied on the Houston Chronicle's website, but splashed on the front page of yesterday's paper was an...
Monday, February 28, 2011

A look at HPD's history

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On the ground floor of HPD Headquarters at 1200 Travis Street is the HPD Museum that contains an interesting assortment of items from HPD...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

An inconvenient truth?

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The truth, that nebulous concept that floats in and out of the aether always just seemingly out of reach, has a way of rearing its ugly head...