- …And my review will be up tomorrow.
- “Constable,” like the ATFE, seems to be the low-hanging fruit of law enforcement careers.
- New anti-hotel ad is good but there’s overreach where they quote Councilman Jerry Allen who said, “That’s an element of risk that’s out there. … Of course, by that time, I’ll be off council. So I cannot be held accountable.”
- William McKenzie raises a lot of good points about the state of public schools in Texas, but the bottom line for me seems to be we should just return full control of schools to local school boards and let what happens, happen.
With all due respect to the good cops who risk their lives every day … this phrase seems increasingly redundant.
Well, there’s a reason cops call them “constant squirrels.”
I gotta agree with Trey on the constables…my grandfather was one. He lost is right arm, which he called his “shootin’” arm at the age of 19 in a cotton gin. I won’t go into a lot of detail, but let’s just say there was some outlaw shit going down on his watch.
I’ve lived in Texas since 1997, and even had a crash course in covering cops and courts in the Lone Star State. I still don’t know why we have constables, especially in urban areas, and keep waiting for someone – anyone – to explain it to me.
Once this Constable stopped and detained this man, he committed himself. If the man is DWI, it follows that once he isn’t driving he’s publicly intoxicated. If one is gonna play off duty cop, one has to see it through. Lucky for this Constable that the man (if truly intoxicated) didn’t stagger out into the freeway and get killed.
This could have turned out very badly for the citizen, and the Constable.
“I still don’t know why we have constables, especially in urban areas, and keep waiting for someone – anyone – to explain it to me.”-Tom
A question that will never be answered. I cringe everytime I hear some politician bellow that we need more police-on my drive home, to my little suburban hamlet, I see DPD, DCSO, Constables, Dallas City Marshals, DART Police, DISD Police and the occasional DPS Trooper.