Showing posts with label Houston Police Department. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston Police Department. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Addendum to a botched drug raid

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Here is a link to the actual warrant for the botched drug raid. The article states that the warrant had been uplifted to Scribd, but when...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Anatomy of a botched drug raid

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Last month five officers from the Houston Police Department were injured - four were shot - in a drug raid gone incredibly wrong. At the tim...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Dancing with the stars

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Once upon a time there was a strip club on the North Freeway called Fantasy Plaza. Now, believe it or not, drugs were sold at the club and m...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Taking away freedom on the cheap

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One of our worst nightmares is being wrongly arrested by the police and getting lost in the criminal (in)justice system. Thanks to a cheap d...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy Fourth (or not)

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association carried on a tradition born four years ago with the annual reading of the Declar...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

288 and counting...

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The Houston Police Department is on a 288-0 win streak . There have been 288 officer shootings without a single indictment since Arthur Char...
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Warriors for a new tomorrow

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No, that's not an armed invasion of the City of Houston. It's just the latest example of the increasing militarization of the pol...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Criminalizing the homeless

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Sec. 39-2. - Disturbing or removing contents of containers. (a) It is unlawful for any person to intentionally, knowingly or recklessl...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Smile! You're on camera

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According to Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland, up to 100 officers will be wearing miniature cameras attached to their glasses or arti...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

HPD's dirty little ticket secret

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We all know that it's hard to win in traffic court. The officer has his shiny gadget that tells him how fast you may or may not have bee...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Police kill double-amputee over a pen

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He lost his right leg and right arm when he was hit by a train. He was confined to a wheelchair. He lived in a group home. He had some menta...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Another lethal shot from a non-lethal device

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A man who died after he was stunned with a Taser by a Houston police officer this weekend had a drug addiction and lengthy criminal history...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012

We're the police and we're here to help

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He was acting strangely. His hair was wet. His eyes were "big." He told the clerk at the hotel he needed help.  He wouldn't co...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

The verdict was neither right nor wrong

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A jury in Harris County found former Houston police officer Andrew Blomberg not guilty of official oppression in the beating of teenager Cha...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Searching for a reason (any reason)...

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Of course something had to be done. There was a fight. There were the police. We can't possibly expect the police to climb back in their...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Harris County's runaway grand jury: a blawgosphere summary

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On Monday morning, two high-level prosecutors in the Harris County District Attorney's Office will appear in the 185th Judicial District...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Police union targets city official who spoke out against police brutality

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It would seem that Houston city councilwoman Jolanda Jones is paying the price for speaking out against the police. Ms. Jones has spoken out...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Police look to change uniforms

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According to this article in the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Police Department is looking to retire its light blue over dark blue unifor...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Driving while black remains a reality in Houston

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New data released by the Houston Police Department shows that black motorists are more likely to be stopped by police than any other ethnic...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Holy piece of junk, Batman!

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There were some folks who thought I was a bit off the mark when I dared to criticize HPD's BATmobiles . Turns out I was right . We...
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