Texas
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Fake Traffic Stops = Mass Police Firing in Arlington
Mar 7, 2017(Comments: 1)March 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) – In Texas, to be a cop, you have to be licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). If you lose that license, no one can hire you to... -
Calub Bocanegra: No Evidence, No Conviction
Feb 27, 2017(Comments: 2)February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) – There is one big truth in the American criminal justice system. Average Americans don’t care about justice because they aren’t criminals. You did the crime, you do the time. Wrongful... -
Proposed Texas “Title IX” Laws Make a Bad Situation Worse
Feb 23, 2017(Comments: 2)February 23, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Baylor University, according to the Dallas Morning News, has an egregious sexual assault problem worthy of codifying the Department of Education’s OCR “Dear Colleague” letters as actual law. If reports... -
Earl David Worden: Another Case of Videographers vs. the Police
Feb 21, 2017(Comments: 25)February 21, 2017 (Fault Lines) – We’ve run a number of stories on people filming police buildings and the reaction of police to those individuals. I think that it is basically baiting the police, but to... -
Texas Teacher Sex Gets Expensive, But Who’s The Real Victim?
Jan 27, 2017(Comments: 13)January 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – It’s hard to believe that, all of a sudden, there is a rash of teacher-student sex romps. There are a lot more stories in the news these days about taking... -
Texas Teachers Learns Reefer Stupidity
Jan 26, 2017(Comments: 0)January 26, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Maryam Roland of El Paso, TX, has been a high school science teacher since 2008. Unfortunately, she worked in the same building as a crazy person. On February 18, 2015,... -
Dr. Courtney Morgan Sues Texas’ Masters Of The Universe
Jan 26, 2017(Comments: 4)January 26, 2017 (Fault Lines) — The case involving Dr. Courtney Morgan, the DEA, and Texas Medical Board Investigators has a “happy ending” for Dr. Morgan, but it may still be filed under the “which office... -
Galveston Sergeant Archie Chapman’s Trespass Trial
Jan 24, 2017(Comments: 18)January 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Last week, Galveston Police Sergeant Archie Chapman was acquitted of criminal charges arising from his contact and arrest of a photography activist. On November 4, 2015, photography activist, Phillip Turner,... -
Social Media Giants Sued for Aiding And Abetting Attack On Dallas Cops
Jan 23, 2017(Comments: 2)January 23, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Since we all live in what our mean-ass editor has rightly called a “twisted universe,” where if I critique a lawsuit filed by a Dallas cop against a social media... -
Discipline Done Right, “Litter Cop” William Martin Suspended
Jan 13, 2017(Comments: 9)January 13, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On December 21, 2016, Fort Worth Police Officer William Martin responded to a possible assault call involving an adult while male who allegedly choked a 7-year-old black male for littering....