Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston. 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, September 28, 2018

Whips, chains and Racehorse Haynes

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Hey, I've pitched this podcast before - and if you're not listening to it yet, you need to. The current episode of Criminal  is ab...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Judge finds that City destroyed evidence in jail litigation

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Quick. What is the worst thing you can do when you are the defendant in a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging you held people in jail for ...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood

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My wife pointed out the following post on some local community website for our neighborhood. Now first I have to set the table for what you...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Free parking (no more)

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Earlier this week I had to bid goodbye to a good friend. You see, for the past couple of months there was a parking meter - not too far from...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Who's really to blame for network fiasco?

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So now Houston mayor Annise Parker has decided to get herself in the middle of the fray between the Astros and Rockets' regional sports ...
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...
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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Friday, September 14, 2012

Dem bones

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I've lived in and around Houston all my life. Now Houston will never be a tourist destination like Austin and San Antonio are. Folks com...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

An alternative to jailing the homeless

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Once again kudos are due to a target of my barbs. This time it's Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston, who is presiding over the construc...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

City to subsidize development of luxury apartments rather than affordable housing

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It's a well rehearsed mantra any time a professional sports teams asks the government to use public money to fund a private business (wh...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Have you seen this meter?

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You gotta hand it to Mayor Annise Parker. She, and her colleagues on City Council, have come up with a brilliant way to raise additional rev...
Friday, April 27, 2012

HCCLA packs METRO board meeting

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association made its presence felt at the monthly Metropolitan Transit Authority's (METRO) ...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Too much, the magic bus

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If you were thinking about hopping on that Metro bus for any reason, you might want to think again. According to an article in the Houston C...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Mussolini made the trains run on time

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It was bad enough when airport harassment security was handed over to the newly-formed TSA following the attacks on 9/11. Of course the rea...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The mayor's plan to rid downtown of the homeless

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Well, if you can't figure out a way to resolve the homeless issue in Houston, the least you can do, Mayor Parker, is get those folks out...
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...
Monday, February 13, 2012

City to evict occupiers

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This is how the world ends This is how the world ends This is how the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper.   " The Hollow ...
Friday, February 3, 2012

On crime and car repairs

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A storm is a-brewing in Houston over the cost of auto repairs. City Council is expected to pass a new ordinance that would require repair sh...