Do 17-year-old offenders belong in adult prison? Would there be benefits to raising the age of responsibility to 18 instead? The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, alongside several other groups including the ACLU of Texas and Texans Care for Children, are pushing to have the [...]
Are Dallas police able to mark your home or business to warn others that habitual crime takes place there? A newly proposed ordinance would allow it. The ordinance is part of a set of changes the Dallas Police Department is pushing to help better [...]
Sexual assault and harassment tales are a constant in the news ever since the breaking news story regarding movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. And if you are reading this, you may be facing accusations of sexual assault yourself. If you have been accused of sexual [...]
Holy guacamole! A South Texas man has been arrested after stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over nine years. The bizarre plot led to first-degree theft charges, a felony with a potential sentence of several years in jail. Gilberto Escamilla was a worker at [...]
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) recently released a free app for riders called Say Something. Named after the phrase “If you see something, say something,” the app allows riders to instantly report crimes in progress on the DART system. According to DART police, over [...]
Can the Reverse Mass Incarceration Act singlehandedly reduce both crime AND incarceration rates in the United States? The bill was introduced in the House in early October by Rep. Tony Cárdenas of California, following its introduction in the Senate by Senators Cory Booker and [...]
Viral videos from Houston recently showed two people firing guns indiscriminately out of their car window. The couple posted the videos on the social media platform Snapchat. At first, the police said that no one had reported anything about the shooting, so they could [...]
Since 2010, Texas has exonerated over 200 people for crimes they did not commit, based on evidence of innocence. Wrongful convictions, unfortunately, are a fact of life in Texas. Texas, according to the Innocence Project, is the state with the highest number of prisoners [...]
Who should have access to footage filmed by police body cameras? Are the police allowed to withhold this footage? Recently, Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. (D-Brownsville) asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton if police were allowed to withhold certain footage, not only from the public, [...]
A paranormal being. Two impressionable minds. A stabbing that shook Waukesha, Wisconsin to its core and sparked an investigation into the power of the Internet. What caused the Slender Man stabbing? In May 2014, 12-year-olds Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser led their friend, Payton [...]
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