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President Donald Trump is pushing a federal show of force in U.S. cities and Houston finds itself sharing similar crime data with the places under Trump’s scrutiny.
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When George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis under a police officer’s bent knee, it sent shockwaves more than 1,200 miles away in Houston.
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HOUSTON – A special symposium scheduled to be held at Texas Southern University aims to address challenges to campus safety. The Urban Community Safety
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The civilian side of the Houston Police Department, already hollowed out after years of cuts and attrition, faces an exodus of as many as
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Violent crime increased by nearly 5% in Houston in 2024, Mayor John Whitmire’s first year in office, an uptick that brings to an end a
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The Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University has taken a significant step towards understanding gun violence and police shootings. Their latest research,
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A new study recently published in the Delaware Journal of Public Health provides a candid look into the perception of young Black males in
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Speaking At an Erie, Pennsylvania rally just two days before of the vice presidential debate, former President Donald Trump made a bold statement: Police
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Research has documented the many ways individuals’ environments (e.g., community, neighborhood) affect their health.
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After years of anticipation, the murder trial of retired Houston Police officer Gerald Goines is scheduled to begin Monday. The trial is happening more
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At a critical juncture in our nation’s history, this issue of Race and Justice provides timely and vital scholarship on pressing concerns around policing,
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When the Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair — or C.R.O.W.N Act as most people know it — was first passed
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Most people outside of metropolitan Memphis have probably not heard of Shelby Farms.
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For years, the purpose of an unmarked warehouse down the road from a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police station has remained unknown to the city’s
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A year after Jalen Randle was fatally shot by a police officer, Tiffany Rachal still has many questions about the circumstances leading to her
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A former Colorado police officer last week became the first to be convicted by a jury of failing to intervene after jurors found she
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A teenager in Louisiana was fatally shot after going to the wrong house while looking for a Halloween party.
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Last week, officers with the Farmington, N.M., Police Department responded to a call of a domestic violence incident.
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The cycle of listening to residents, acting on their feedback and communicating results back to the community will continually increase trust over time
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We sat down with Howard Henderson, founding director, Center for Justice Research, and professor of justice administration at Texas Southern University
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Some people who have been pushing for police reform say it feels a lot like 2020 again.
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Texas Southern University will launch the HBCU Criminal Justice Research Hub to conduct research on reducing mass incarceration and violent crime.
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With Houston having a higher-than-average crime rate and Harris County’s incarceration rate reportedly the highest in Texas, researchers at Texas Southern University are taking
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Texas Southern University will use a new $350,000 grant to develop the first-ever HBCU Criminal Justice Research Hub. The hub will study how to
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A recent wave of political ads and warnings from some in law enforcement paint a picture of a Houston in which crime is out
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A Los Angeles program designed to divert nonviolent 911 calls related to people experiencing homelessness to unarmed mental health professionals saw 173 deployments in
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The hands of about two-thirds of the teens in a Texas Southern University auditorium shot up Saturday afternoon when asked whether they knew someone
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Louisville Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg was at his campaign headquarters preparing for a meeting when a bullet grazed his sweater on Monday morning.
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Researchers are tackling the correlation between high-crime communities, guns, and young Black men.
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A wave of high-profile attacks on police officers risks creating a new political crisis for Joe Biden and the Democrats, who face an uphill
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At least 10 law enforcement officers were shot or killed – most around major U.S. cities – in about a week, in what criminal
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The issue of bonding out criminal defendants is a hot-button topic in local politics right now, and a Houston councilmember is now jumping into
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The Orlando Police Department created a new unit in 2021 that sends behavioral health experts instead of law enforcement officers to respond to 911
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Houston saw another increase in homicides in 2021, with police investigators having responded to 469 deaths of that nature in the city over 12
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Nearly every member of Houston City Council voted to approve a contract with ShotSpotter. But at least two of those “yes” votes came from
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The 87th Texas Legislature passed more than 660 bills this year during what seemed like an endless number of sessions. Most of them have
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Night after night, hundreds of people marched the streets of Oregon’s largest city, demanding racial justice after the murder of George Floyd by a
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“When we saw the disproportion of suspensions between our students, we knew that that had to be addressed. We want to do right by
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When police killed Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, in April, it drew swift community and official reaction.
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The Texas legislative redistricting maps released within the last two weeks are a work in progress. They will not look exactly like this when
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An amendment that would let judges deny bail to people accused of certain offenses advanced through the state Senate in a lightning session on
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The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last year set off calls among liberals to “defund the police,” and now that
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As the delta variant has COVID-19 infection rates climbing in Texas, another public health crisis is flourishing statewide.
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ABC13, Houston’s most-watched television station, presented a one-hour virtual town hall Thursday night to discuss the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color.
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Dallas Police Chief Edgardo Garcia’s focus on individuals who commit the most violent and offensive crimes while maintaining public trust may be a model
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In Houston and across much of the country, crime is up. This includes petty crime, violent crime and seemingly random crime.
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In Houston and across much of the country, crime is up. This includes petty crime, violent crime and seemingly random crime.
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In the year since George Floyd’s murder there have been calls for change nationwide. NBC News’ Dasha Burns reports on the red state police
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Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers
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Five weeks after ex-Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, three Washington state police officers pleaded not guilty Friday in the
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The Washington state attorney general on Thursday charged two Tacoma police officers with murder and another with manslaughter in the death of Manuel Ellis,
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Residents in Ventura County, California are pushing for more police reform following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of former police officer
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed one of the nation’s most ambitious packages of police accountability legislation, prompted by last year’s outcry for
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Several successor bills to House Bill 88 have advanced to the Senate, but they do not include one significant part of the original bill
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Elaine Maestas remembers her sister, Elisha Lucero, going out of her way to help people.
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One week ago, people celebrated in the streets of Minneapolis as a judge read the guilty verdicts in the trial of former police officer
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How far has America come in enacting meaningful police reform since George Floyd’s death nearly one year ago?
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If you were to talk with experts about the current state of the justice system in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, they will
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Following the nationwide protests on police brutality, Texas lawmakers are pushing to pass House Bill 1272, a bill that would restrict magistrates from issuing
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As America grapples with yet another killing of an unarmed Black man, many across the country are wondering if reforming the criminal justice system
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Sir Romeo was 5 years old when he was struck by a stray bullet from a gunfight outside his Sunnyside apartment while watching television
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KPRC 2 Investigates looked at four different categories of crime reported over a period of five years — from 2016, before Art Acevedo became
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Sweeping police reform legislation is being considered both in Congress and by the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature, after the death of George Floyd renewed nationwide
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George Floyd’s death at the hands of police last year set off months of mass protests across the United States and the world, as
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In January, Gov. Greg Abbott paid tribute to State Trooper Damon Allen in his State of the State message, calling for the creation of
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The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed the U.S. House on Wednesday, and now moves to the Senate, where it faces a tougher
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When Latoya Jenkins talks about her mom, she likes to focus on happy memories like the games she used to play with her kids.
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HOUSTON (CW39) Black History Month is starting off Big for dozens of local organizations, all because of help coming from the Houston Endowment.
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The Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol a week and a half ago had been public about their plans for violence. But police
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Two races, four candidates and with half a billion dollars spent in the last two months, any word used to describe the implications of
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You may not think of the millions of people behind bars as your neighbors, but when it comes to COVID-19 they are.
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NEW FROM THE TRACE: Last-gasp Trump rule may force banks to lend to gun companies. Officials from the Office of the Comptroller of the
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In the “Truth Seekers” series, Flipboard aims to highlight thoughtful, objective voices to provide insights on the divisive issues of the day.
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Two Texas lawmakers have filed a bill inspired by the killing of George Floyd that would ban police from using chokeholds statewide.
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The Center for Justice Research (CJR) at Texas Southern University supports innovative, data-driven solutions for the creation of an equitable criminal justice system.
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On Sunday, Texas Southern University gave KPRC a preview on a series of action briefs taking on police reform. This comes nearly six months
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Arbitration is taking center stage in the city’s debate over police reform. But just how likely is it that the process will change?
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Amid a violent year in Houston that escalated Monday with the deaths of six people, including a Houston Police Department sergeant, the number of
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City commissioners in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday rejected a budget amendment that would have slashed another $18 million from the Portland Police Bureau amid
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Drive about 20 minutes southwest of downtown Chicago and you will notice the change in landscape as you approach 26th Street and California Avenue. Just
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A Washington Post editorial this week warned that the fear of foreign interference in the election can make Americans distrustful of democracy — and
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Law enforcement agencies in Kentucky have a new way to bring more transparency to the process of obtaining a search warrant, but police in
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Damian Daniels was a former Army sergeant who was shot and killed in front of his Bexar County home during a mental health crisis
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In the aftermath of the choking death of George Floyd, one of the major demands of demonstrators was and is for police reform.
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In May 2020, amid the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest spurred by the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man,
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