There are only 5 full-time psychiatrists and 3 psychologists for around 3000 mental health inmates.
In 2019, the clearance rate for burglaries in Harris County was only 2.29%.
There is a simple way to prevent botched raids such as the one that happened in Harris County in September.
COVID-19 jailer and officer training and retraining have become nonexistent.
In theory, bond reform makes sense. But in practice, it’s caused a lot of problems.
Officers, under normal circumstances, are only allowed to use one level of force above the amount of force used by the subject.
Morale in the department has been low for several years and it’s due to ineffective leadership.
The lion’s share, 74.9%, of those arrested for felony offenses had previous convictions. Recidivism is the malignancy that feeds Harris County’s rising crime rates.
