Posted on · Houston Matters discusses the latest political stories with an eye for how they might affect Houston and Texas. And we revisit the story of the Camp Logan Riots on the 100th anniversary of the infamous event.
Posted on · A University of Houston researcher is developing a system that would allow security cameras to recognize potential threats to public safety before they happen and send an alert to law enforcement.
Posted on · We’re continuing to follow developments on a human smuggling case out of San Antonio that officials are calling ‘tragic.’
Posted on · Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo takes your questions and comments.
Posted on · Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo takes your questions and comments. We discuss whether the oil and gas industry is at odds with Energy Sec. Rick Perry. And we meet some of the folks behind the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale.
Posted on · A year ago today (July 7, 2016), a gunman opened fire on a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas. When the shooting was over, five police officers were dead.
Posted on · A crackdown on violent crime is the focus of a new partnership between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
Posted on · The annual Houston Area Survey, produced Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, finds fewer than 20 percent of respondents fear becoming a victim of a crime, down from more than 40 percent in the mid-1990s.
Posted on · Gov. Greg Abbott announced a plan to stop gangs in Harris County, but did not notify local law enforcement about his plans.
Posted on · (Above: Sandra Bland’s booking photo at the Waller County Jail from July 2015. Photo: Waller County Sheriff’s Office via AP) Texas State Rep. Garnet Coleman, a Houston Democrat, has introduced House Bill 2702 at the Texas Legislature, what many are calling the “Sandra Bland bill.” It aims to protect minorities and the mentally ill during interactions […]
Posted on · Officers will use a device to make sure vehicles keep a minimum safe distance when they pass a cyclist.
Posted on · “It sounded like big booms of fireworks," says a woman who was near the scene.
Posted on · Texas Senate Bill 4 is often referred to as the “Sanctuary Cities” bill. But the bill as worded could go much deeper than the city level to target undocumented immigrants.
Posted on · Houston Matters host Craig Cohen talks with Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler, in advance of his lecture Thursday night (Feb. 16, 2017) at the University of Houston Law Center. Butler, a former federal prosecutor, has written and spoken extensively on criminal justice and race relations, including in his 2009 book Let’s Get Free: A Hip […]
Posted on · Amid a White House characterizing the media as the “opposition party,” instant feedback – both positive and negative – via social media, coarsened public discourse on, well, everything that seems to even challenge objective facts, and long-standing debate in the public – and in media itself — over the role journalists should play, it can […]