There are over 150,000 juveniles arrested every year in Texas, and more than 50,000 are incarcerated at Texas Youth Commission (TYC) and local detention and postadjudication facilities. The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC) monitors these local lockups. Also, some 68,000 Texas youths are on probation or parole.
Too many Houston crimes go unsolved. Here’s how to change that.
The latest HPD scandal underscores a national problem. Commit a crime, get caught and go to jail — directly to jail. It’s the justice lesson we learned growing up, but it’s far from reality in cities across the nation, where clearance rates are abominably low. News out of Houston is compounding the issue of unsolved crimes after the Houston...