Crime & Police

An “outside vendor” may help the Dallas Police Department track the off-duty work of its officers.

When the Bexar County sheriff held a livestream press conference on Monday, he didn’t hold back from letting everyone know he was angry. In fact, he said he was “furious” over a stunt last week that saw dozens of migrants recruited from Texas and shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. On…

While there was some divide in opinion when it came to total bans of assault rifles, a survey by the University of Houston and Texas Southern University found “overwhelming” bipartisan support for more gun control measures in Texas.

To hear the state’s top cop tell it, he backs the blue harder than the blue’s ever been backed. But on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took a different tack. A day after the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced it was investigating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant plane to…

The Lew Sterrett Justice Center’s time in Dallas may be up as the county’s commissioners consider replacing it.

Like they did back in July, Dallas Water Utilities customers were sent fraudulent notices over the phone claiming they needed to pay their bill or service would be disconnected.

In August, local attorney Mark Melton accused a clerk at a Dallas County Justice of the Peace court of forging a notice in his client’s eviction case. Since then, Melton has deposed clerks with the court who claim they didn’t see the notice in question in his client’s file until he came around asking questions about it. The judge and clerk accused of forging the notice completely deny the claims.

At a press conference Wednesday, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia apologized after news broke that an officer had created and tried to sell a racist commemorative challenge coin. Speaking at the event with the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, Garcia said the officer, whom he didn’t name, had been…

In undercover footage by video outlet The Undercurrent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said the FBI needs to clean house.

A Plano woman could be looking at hate crime charges following a confrontation on Wednesday in which she hurled her fists, racist insults and even threats of violence

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has been subpoenaed on allegations of sexual abuse of members for decades

In the wake of the mass shooting that left 21 people, including 19 children, dead in Uvalde, Texas officials and lawmakers have floated a few out-there ideas about how to keep students safe in the classroom. Some suggested more guns on campuses, an idea that likely doesn’t sit well with…

A Dallas County grand jury decided on Friday not to indict Brad Cox, a former Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic who was caught kicking an unarmed, mentally ill man several times while he was on the ground.

If Dentonites approve this ballot initiative, the city’s cops may have a harder time citing and arresting for misdemeanor marijuana possession.

Kyle Vess sued the city and the former paramedic who kicked him several times during an incident in 2019. The city and former paramedic, Brad Cox, have tried to have the case dismissed, but a judge recently ruled it could move forward.

The Garland Police Department says a contract driver for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) sexually assaulted a young woman who has a mental disability. The driver, 44-year-old Samson Assefa Lemma, was arrested at his home in Wylie Tuesday night. Garland police officers learned earlier this month that he allegedly…

Seven Texans were arrested in Idaho trying to incite a riot at a Pride event.

Teachers are scared, gun reformists want change, and so far politicians haven’t done anything different.

Mobile service providers, such as T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon, have been fined millions of dollars in previous years for failing to connect calls to emergency services. Last week, T-Mobile customers in Dallas, again, couldn’t get through to 911.

The SBC is working to make it better for victims to come forward to report abuse and to make the abusers known instead of hiding them.

Laderrick Dedemon Smith, 22, pleaded guilty in August to sex trafficking children. He was working out of a hotel in Plano, including during the COVID-19 lockdown.