Politics & Policy
March 17, 2021
Why Is Art Acevedo Leaving Houston?
Political insiders say the police chief’s move to Miami follows a turbulent year in which his hopes of being elected mayor began to look delusional.
Houston Police Department
Music
March 10, 2021
A Houston Punk Band’s Protest Anthem Still Resonates, Forty Years After Its Release
The city’s police union sued AK-47 in 1981 for naming victims of brutality in the song ‘The Badge Means You Suck.’…
The Culture
February 10, 2021
How the Country’s First Latino Homicide Squad Transformed Houston Policing—At Least for a While
A new podcast explores the history of the “Chicano Squad” as part of a Houston police department effort to repair its broken relationship with the Latino community.
Politics & Policy
June 4, 2020
The Hero Myth of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo
He has become a national celebrity for publicly supporting the George Floyd protests. But Acevedo’s record is decidedly less progressive than his rhetoric.
News & Politics
February 20, 2019
Houston Police Chief Says He’ll End No-Knock Warrants After Botched Raid
The announcement comes amid growing questions about the legitimacy of the investigation that led to the deadly raid.
News & Politics
March 29, 2018
Fatal Police Shooting of Danny Ray Thomas Tests Houston’s Progressive Law Enforcement Leaders
Thomas was unarmed when a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week.
The Daily Post
January 3, 2017
Houston’s New Police Chief, Art Acevedo, Has Plans For the Department
Acevedo has set his sights on two priorities for the Houston Police Department: body cameras and investigating officer involved shootings.
The Daily Post
March 5, 2015
No, Sharpstown, Texas, Did Not Fire its Police Force and Bring About a Huge Drop in Crime
There’s no such town, no cops were fired, and the drop in crime is debatable. The rest is spot-on. …
The Daily Post
December 16, 2014
Stories of Police Violence in Texas Are All Over the Internet Right Now
Post-Ferguson, post–Eric Garner, post–Tamir Rice, relations between police and the people they’re tasked to protect and serve are especially strained—even as far from where those events happened as Texas.
The Daily Post
September 19, 2013
Texas Officers Put Their Policing on Social
Cops take to their cameras with #tweetalongs—but is it fair for officers to tweet out pictures of the people they stop?…
Bum Steers
January 21, 2013
Houston Woman Busted For Warning Motorists of Speed Trap
Natalie Plummer's handwritten grocery-bag sign warning motorists near downtown of a speed trap led to her arrest for "walking in the roadway." She claims she never left the sidewalk. …
January 21, 2013
HPD Crime Lab To Be Revamped?
Houston Mayor Annise Parker suggested making the city's crime lab independent and adding a Innocence Project representative to the board overseeing it.
Feature
January 1, 2006
Why Can’t Steven Phillips Get a DNA Test?
For that matter, why can’t any incarcerated man or woman with a good reason get one?…