With so many sweeping and often ambiguous criminal laws, including those that are created every week by regulatory agencies without the approval of elected officials, it is impossible for any person or business to regularly stay abreast of the line between what is legal and what is criminal.
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...