Haven't heard much discussion of a BIG unfunded mandate in the Governor's anti-homeless legislation (#HB1925): If cops arrest under the statute, cities must store belongings at no charge. Will either be few arrests or significant ↑ costs. No space in overflowing evidence rooms.
Unclear if they must store ppl's stuff when arresting for unpaid warrants based on Class C tickets under #HB1925. If not, it would defeat the purpose of the provision: It's inevitable most ppl who receive these tickets won't be able to pay.
Interestingly, the bill forbids cities from establishing policies that limit these arrests, so if and when costs start racking up, the Lege will have taken away their ability to limit this expense.

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11 Jan
Texas cop unions have put out a website to oppose police reform called Texas Police Facts. But the "facts" presented are mostly either anodyne distractions or pretty brazenly misrepresented. texaspolicefacts.com
Citing a DOJ-BJS study, they say "claims that minorities are substantially more likely to be contacted by the police are inaccurate." bjs.gov/content/pub/pd… Check out Tbls 3 and 4. Black folks are overrepresented in POLICE-initiated contacts; whites in crime reporting.
That same DOJ-BJS analysis concluded that "Blacks were more likely to be pulled over in traffic stops than whites and Hispanics." So the linked source directly contradicts their claim.
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18 Nov 20
Been digging deeper into Texas' 2019 #SandraBland data and Houston is a big outlier.

Of agencies reporting to @TCOLE under Texas' racial profiling statute, @houstonpolice account for 3% of traffic stops statewide and 29% of all use-of-force incidents reported at those stops.
HPD reported the highest use-of-force rate among large TX agencies at 71 incidents per 10K stops. Statewide avg around 8 force incidents per 10K stops. (N.b., this only captures force at traffic stops, not all UoF incidents.)

Source (columns J and HK): tcole.texas.gov/content/racial…
Together, Houston and DPS accounted for about half of reported force incidents at traffic stops statewide in 2019 (3,739 out of 7,866). But DPS performed 8x as many stops. If HPD used force at same rate as @TXDPS (5.2/10K), they'd have had >2,000 fewer force incidents last year.
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