With over 1,500 crimes listed outside the penal code, Texas criminal law is unwieldy and unjust. HB 2804 proposes a commission to review these offenses and to recommend eliminating them or consolidating them in the penal code.
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...