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How the Grand Jury System in Texas Works Grand juries have been in the news often in the last year. And Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson wants to change the method Texas uses to select grand jurors to serve. So how do grand juries...

Texas Counties Could Stand to Save Significant Amount of Money Last year, I wrote about Dallas County how plans to start issuing tickets for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Dallas County realized the overwhelming financial costs stemming from...

Bill Would Create Funds for Statewide Body Cameras on Officers Who Frequently Stop Vehicles This seems to be the way things are headed. For better or for worse, rampant technological innovations are catalyzing police officers and law enforcement...

Highest Number of U.S. Exonerations Ever in 2014 There were a lot of bad convictions in the U.S. that were overturned or dismissed in 2014. The National Registry of Exonerations claims that 125 individuals were falsely convicted and subsequently...

Off-Duty Fort Worth Police Officer Arrested for DWI A veteran of the Fort Worth Police was detained and arrested on suspicion of DWI early Monday morning. According to a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article, the officer is a veteran, and has been on the...

Maybe Your Dad Was Right All Along About Your Friends From High School Recently, researchers finally admitted that they may agree with with your dad. A group of researchers now report a possible link between chronic marijuana use and smaller, shrinking...

Civil Forfeiture: Police Spending Relies on Seized Assets Law enforcement throughout the county rely on the money seized under civil forfeiture law to finance increasingly escalating spending on new police toys: guns, armored vehicles, and surveillance...

There has been a national hysteria about a heroin epidemic in the United States. The widespread fear has grown in light of highly publicized and devastating events like the overdose death of Philip Seymour Hoffman in February. To be fair, there is some...