Hicks Family Invests in Police Body Camera Company

Hicks Holdings, the Dallas-based investment arm of the family of former Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks, announced Tuesday that it’s throwing its considerable weight behind a company that makes body cameras and in-car video systems for police departments and transit authorities across the country. The investment in Georgia-based Utility…

Dallas Police On the Lookout for Suspects After Weekend of Murders

On Sunday afternoon, Dallas police announced the end to a tragic weekend. Just before noon, police said, they’d been called to the 3000 block of Rochester Street in southeast Dallas. When they arrived, they found a woman’s body floating in the creek. The unidentified woman had been murdered, according to…

Study Using DPD Data Ignites Debate Over Race and Use of Force by Police

A new study published in July’s American Journal of Public Health attacks one of contemporary policing’s biggest questions using data culled from the Dallas Police Department. The central question: Are white police officers more likely to use force against nonwhite suspects? The answer in Dallas appears to be no, according…

Suspect in West Dallas Voter Fraud Arrested

The only suspect in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation into voter fraud in May’s City Council election is in custody. Miguel Hernandez has been on the lam for more than a month; a warrant was issued June 2 for his arrest on illegal voting charges. A grand jury…

Suspect Fires at Dallas Police During Attempted Arrest in Oak Cliff

Dallas police have confirmed that a suspect took a shot at officers as they tried to serve an aggravated assault warrant at an apartment complex Thursday morning. At about 6 a.m. Thursday, U.S. marshals and Dallas police officers attempted to arrest the suspect at the Rosemont at Cedar Crest Apartments…

Arlington Jailers Get Probation for 2015 Death of Inmate

A Tarrant County judge sentenced two former Arlington jailers to one year of probation Tuesday for their role in the 2015 death of inmate Jonathan Paul. Pedro Medina and Steven Schmidt both pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges. Each initially received a felony charge of criminally negligent homicide. Arlington police picked…

AG Jeff Sessions Turns Back the Clock on Drug Reform at Grapevine Speech

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave the keynote speech at 30th Drug Abuse Resistance Education International Training Conference in Grapevine on Tuesday afternoon. Ostensibly, the attorney general was on the program to talk to the drug-prevention educators at the conference about the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in Texas and…

Dallas Police: Drugstore Security Guard Chases, Kills Shoplifter

On Tuesday, Dallas police arrested Julio Ruvalcaba for shooting and killing Christopher Geddes on Sunday. The incident started at a CVS Pharmacy on South Buckner Boulevard on Sunday afternoon. Surveillance video recorded at the store shows Geddes, 31, shoplifting from the store. According to DPD, Geddes headed to the parking lot after taking the…

Fugitive Indicted in West Dallas Voter Fraud Case

A Dallas County grand jury issued its first indictment in the ongoing investigation into mail-in ballot fraud in West Dallas on Monday. The grand jury charged Miguel Hernandez, 27, with illegal voting, a second-degree felony. Investigators in the case believe Hernandez is responsible for at least one of the tainted…

One Year After Our Police Massacre, White Supremacy Mars the Memory

The cruelty, grief and alienation that spring from racism are all still with us, continuing to deform our day-to-day lives, because white supremacy is still with us. White supremacy is a social chasm across which people can barely see each other, let alone hear and understand. None of that will…