Judges in urban counties such as Dallas- Fortworth, Texas have always come down heavily on drunk driving, suspending licenses to prevent people found guilty of alcohol impaired driving from…
Around 300 law enforcement agencies around Texas are getting ready for this year’s Great Texas Warrant Round Up, which will occur on March 6th. For those living in Texas with outstanding warrants…
North Texas is Reaping the Rewards of Population Growth More than Just Economically!
Surprisingly, the spate of population in the suburbs of Northern Texas has created an…
Problems along the southern border of the United States is not fresh news to anyone. Issues such as drug trafficking and illegal immigration have plagued the border for years. Recent headlines…
In 2010 the CDC completed a survey that included information on stalking in the United States. It found that in Texas, nearly one and a half million females will will be victims of stalking within…
In response to the recent wave of illegal immigrants being bussed into American cities, Texas militia groups are preparing to assemble at the border to stop illegal immigration. Usually, when…
After being called out to the Key Truck Stop more than 50 times in less a year, a Harris County police officer sought the help of assistant county attorney, Jorey Herrscher.
Herrscher dug…
Jerry Patterson, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas claims that homicides are down 40% since the passage of a bill he championed. The claims appeared in a recent campaign video; his…
Texas law enforcement agencies can now obtain search warrants established on the prediction of potential future crime.
Back in 2010 Parker County Police officers arrested…
In 2012, The Texas Department of Public Safety issued new crime statistics that show a continuous downward trend. Violent crime experienced an average decrease of nearly 10%, almost 6% more than…
Any person who has been found guilty of sex crimes is entered in the sex offender registry. Thus, even after serving their term, sex offenders have to live with a sex criminal stigma for their…
Everyone knows it’s illegal to carry a gun on a plane; right? Then why does the TSA seize more than a thousand guns every year at airport checkpoints; a number that has been steadily rising since…
Undocumented Immigrant Checkpoints Target Low Income Areas Including Children’s Schools. Several Mexican-American neighborhoods in Southern Texas are reporting an increase in immigration…
Texas Department of Criminal Justice has reported a severe shortage of pentobarbital – the drug used for the lethal injection executions. In this coming September there will be no means available…
Based on a study that has been recently carried out by American Civil Liberties Union, Texas scored second on the list of detentions for the illegal possession of marijuana across the nation in…
Texas turns out to be a safe haven for Internet privacy. On June 14, a new law became effective in the state after the governor had signed it. This new law (HB 2268) obligates law enforcement…
A new law recently passed in Texas will enable police in cases of online harassments to press charges in the county where the victim resides even if the crime’s origin is in a different county or…
Crime rate are on the increase in Texas, even in place which have been considered safe up until recently.
The city of Round Rock is a noticeable example. According to police official…
The governor of Texas has recently authorized a new bill according to which any law enforcement agency in Texas will be forced to have a warrant if it is interested in gaining access to a private…
In the recently released Uniform Crime reports, the FBI reports that the rates of both murder and manslaughter in the city of Austin and around the rest of the country have dropped. In Houston,…
In 2006, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was established on a national level to create a uniform sex offender registry across the country. However, Texas and Arizona, Arkansas,…
Every year, two different federal agencies release their findings about crime rates for the previous year. This year, despite the U.S. Bureau of Justice finding that violent crime and property…
After the Sharptown stock fraud scandal in the 1970s, Texas has made an effort to make as much information available to the public as possible. Now, however, officials in many different cities are…
In recent years, there have been an alarming amount of officer fatalities, despite a Texas law requiring drivers to move over or slow down for stopped emergency vehicles. Since 1999, 175 officers…