The Federal Highway Administration is asking Texas officials to hit pause on a massive highway widening project while it examines whether it violates Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
The families of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas say the city's policies and practices invited Fourth Amendment violations.
Meanwhile, he’s still trying to downplay corruption within his own force.
After breaking into Tuttle's home with no legal justification, police killed his dog and his wife.
So far a dozen narcotics officers have been charged as a result of the investigation triggered by the disastrous operation.
Despite the city's stubborn resistance, a judge will finally consider the family's request to depose police supervisors.
Trying to distract attention from the deadly corruption in his own department, Art Acevedo demands "action at the national level."
The charges, which grew out of a lethal 2019 raid based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit, suggest that cops routinely built their cases on lies.
The charges against six narcotics officers reveal a culture of shady practices that led to a deadly drug raid.
Contrary to what Police Chief Art Acevedo seems to think, his department has a systemic problem.
If Art Acevedo had any shame, he would be engaging in less grandstanding and more introspection.
The announcement brings the total number of suspect cases initiated by Gerald Goines to 164 over 11 years.
Defensive official reactions to corruption encourage the attitude that troubles the attorney general.
The ruling may well be both correct and consistent with the same court's earlier ruling in favor of a different set of plaintiffs arising from the same events. But the opinion does still have a few notable flaws.
After declaring another man arrested by Gerald Goines "actually innocent," the Harris County district attorney says prosecutors are re-examining cases going back to 2008.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says it's reasonable to presume that Gerald Goines also lied in other drug cases.
A new article argues unconvincingly that the sprawling Texas metro is less affordable than ultra-expensive New York City after accounting for higher transportation costs and lower incomes.
The city limits busking to its tiny Theater District, and it makes you jump through hoops even to play there.
Additional grand juries will investigate possible wrongdoing by other narcotics officers, including the way the raid was conducted.
Police Chief Art Acevedo's observations about the fallen nature of humanity are no substitute for reforms aimed at preventing such abuses.
A deadly raid based on a bogus tip and a fraudulent search warrant affidavit highlights loose police practices in Houston.
The Justice Department says Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were killed in an operation based on a fraudulent warrant triggered by a false report to police.
Although the warrant was based on a heroin purchase that never happened, Art Acevedo says, there was other, unmentioned evidence that would have justified a search.
The Houston Police Officers' Union is no longer covering the legal fees of Gerald Goines, who faces two murder charges.
While the narcotics officers charged with murder and evidence tampering were bad eggs, Art Acevedo says, their colleagues acted "in good faith."
Gerald Goines justified the raid, which killed a middle-aged couple, based on a heroin purchase that apparently never happened.
Evidence from the scene of the disastrous raid seems to contradict the official account.
Contradictory responses to a request for autopsy reports illustrate how law enforcement agencies take advantage of a broad exception to the state's public records law.
The physical evidence at the scene seems inconsistent with the story told by the officers who conducted the no-knock drug raid.
Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, who was shot twice, were pronounced dead shortly after police invaded their home based on a "controlled buy" that never happened.