
Texas Cities Prioritize Police over People
Fort Worth spends six times more on criminal justice than community services.
Since 1954
Fort Worth spends six times more on criminal justice than community services.
Some 500 protesters withstood the brutal heat to demand justice for those lost in the May 24 school massacre.
In 2018, Austin created the Office of Police Oversight to try to increase police accountability. But has it really worked?
A judge declared a mistrial this week in the murder trial of Billy Chemirmir, leaving the families of more than 20 victims waiting for answers.
Fear and propaganda weren’t enough to save an expensive proposal to swell the police department in Texas’ bluest city.
Almost 50 years after his murder, Dallas is finally taking steps to memorialize Santos Rodriguez. But justice for his family may forever be out of reach.
Bills before the state Legislature this session would subject precious metal buyers to more scrutiny and protect assisted living residents.
A proposal to end collective bargaining, on the ballot May 1, aims to spur police accountability in Texas’ second-largest city.
The push for an omnibus reform package named after George Floyd underscores how outrage over his death changed local and state policy debates around policing.
The office of constable may have made sense back when Texas was a sprawling frontier. Instead, constables basically now run their own little personal fiefdoms.