Harris County Commissioners to Consider $40,000 per Month for No-Bid Contract for “Executive Protection Services”
On tomorrow’s Commissioners Court agenda (Item No. 201) is a request from the Purchasing Department to approve a no-bid contract...
Crime
Harris County SAM Party Urges the Bail Bond Boardto Adopt a Minimum Fee for Violent Crimes
Harris County is experiencing a spike in violent crimes. Numerous media reports have shown that a significant portion of the increase...
Clearance Rates for Crimes Continue to be Abysmal
The Texas Department of Safety has finally released its annual crime report by jurisdiction for 2019.1 This is the only...
Violent Crime Continues to Climb in Houston, but Pandemic Slows Some Crimes
Crime Continues to Climb in Houston
Proposed City Budget Will Add 625 Employees but Cut Police Officers
I am guessing that if you asked the average Houstonian how they would feel about increasing the number of City...
City Continues to Tread Water on Number of Police and Fire Fighters
For as long as I can remember, every candidate for mayor or council in Houston has pledged to increase the...
FBI Crime Statistics for 2018 Confirm Violent Crime Up Significantly
Yesterday the FBI released the crime statistics for 2018. Those numbers confirm precisely what I have been saying on the...
City’s Sweetheart Deal with Strip Clubs is Not So Sweet for Victims of Human Trafficking
In 2013, the City of Houston entered into an agreement with sixteen of Houston’s most notorious strip clubs. The agreement...
Turner Accepts $50,000 in Campaign Contributions from Strip Clubs While Human Trafficking Flourishes in Houston
In what is unquestionably the most disturbing pay-to-play discovery to date, we have uncovered that Sylvester Turner has accepted...
Rapes in Houston Up 121% in Last Four Years
The Texas Department of Public Safety recently released its annual report for crime in Texas for 2017. There are several...
Don’t Leave Anything Visible in Your Car!
I had dinner last week with some friends at a restaurant in the River Oaks area. When I went to...
HPD Annual Arrests Continue Long-Term Decline
According to the City’s annual report, HPD made 51,910 arrests in FY2016-2017, down almost 10,000 from the previous year. The...
HPD 2016 Crime Stats Show Small Uptick in Crimes — Mixed Performance in Solving Them
I recently obtained a report from HPD that shows the number of cases reported and the percentage of...
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