‘He’s done this before’: How a Texas cop with sexual misconduct allegations kept getting hired
Stephen Yohner’s law enforcement career highlights shortcomings in how police departments in Texas handle sexual misconduct allegations and how the state fails in tracking problem officers.
The Navasota Police Department is shown at the City Hall complex in Navasota on May 12, 2021.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
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Anna Donner hoped for a career in law enforcement when she joined the Hearne Police Department in 2016.
After serving eight years in the Air Force, the 26-year-old landed her first civilian job as a 911 dispatcher for the small department near College Station. She hoped it would be a stepping-stone to her dream of becoming a crime scene investigator.
Police Officers Are Disciplined for Not Making Enough Arrests, Cop Claims
On 5/11/21 at 4:43 AM EDT
A Texas cop has claimed she was pressured to meet quotas, including writing tickets, or face being disciplined by her bosses.
Officer Kayla Walker hit out at her employers at the Richardson Police Department last month, and accused them of illegally forcing quotas on its employees.
According to The
Dallas Morning News, Walker told Richardson City Council: The Richardson Police Department has been illegally using quotas to evaluate and discipline patrol officers for not writing enough tickets, arresting enough people, or making enough citizen arrests.
Until just a few days ago, it looked like the legislative push to allow Texans to carry handguns without permits was on life support after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said a Texas House-backed proposal to allow permitless carry didn’t have enough support in the Texas Senate to get a full-hearing, let alone be approved by a majority of Senators and sent to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature.
But Patrick has now promised the bill will get a hearing before the state Senate this week as he claims to continue rallying support for it behind the scenes despite opposition from Texas law enforcement officials. Abbott, who initially refused to say whether he supported permitless carry or not, has now come out publicly in favor of doing away with the state’s handgun license requirements.
Why Fix SAPD is encouraged by Proposition B failure
Advocates who wanted to neuter the San Antonio Police Union s negotiating power are celebrating a victory of sorts, even though voters shot down their proposal. Author: Matt Houston (KENS) Updated: 12:39 PM CDT May 4, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Advocates who wanted to strip the San Antonio police union s collective bargaining rights say they re encouraged by Saturday night s election results, even though their measure fell nearly 3,500 votes shy of passage. An organization that s new, coming together with a grassroots effort without the political establishment behind us, was almost able to defeat the most powerful police union in the nation, Fix SAPD organizer James Dykman said. This proposition is sending a message.
As social justice advocates target police violence against people of color, traffic stops are under growing scrutiny. Here s everything you need to know:
Why are traffic stops important? Scores of studies have shown the same pervasive pattern: Black people are more likely to be pulled over for traffic violations, and more likely to be searched when they re stopped. The most comprehensive study of the issue comes from Stanford University s Open Policing Project, which in 2020 found persistent racial bias in nearly 100 million police stops made by 21 state agencies and 35 municipal departments. Tellingly, the racial disparity dropped after sunset when it s harder for an officer to see a driver s face. Black drivers were searched about twice as often as white drivers even though they were less frequently found to be carrying contraband. Driving while Black is very much a thing, says Kelsey Shoub, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and co-author of Susp