And while we're talking Houston news
Just thought I'd put this up. I don't know how these numbers compare nationally, but this is what's going on down here. "Being black on a sunny day" car searches.
I actually don't live in Houston. I live in a small town within Houston which used to have a horrific rate of this, until the former police chief (12 man department) was busted for 4-6 hours a day of internet porn in his office in the police department. Our new chief leaned the department up, and it's much better now.
In Houston, according to the study, police officers were almost four times as likely to search blacks as whites — one of the highest rates among police agencies in Texas. Hispanics, meanwhile, were searched by HPD officers almost twice as often as whites. The numbers were basically unchanged from 2003.
I actually don't live in Houston. I live in a small town within Houston which used to have a horrific rate of this, until the former police chief (12 man department) was busted for 4-6 hours a day of internet porn in his office in the police department. Our new chief leaned the department up, and it's much better now.
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1:04 PM
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(with tongue planted firmly in cheek)...you mean the old chief didn't have the brains to justify the porn by saying they were looking for leads to child pornographers??? an indefensible position if it wasn't, I guess...
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Anonymous, at 6:11 PM
No, it was absolutely ridiculous. I know one of the cops and the gossipy story was that after a few inopportune walkins where they caught him in flagrante, everybody started calling from their desk saying, " I need to see you in five minutes chief," whenn the whole police station isn't 50 feet across.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:52 PM
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