The longtime chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee is calling for a bi-partisan sense of urgency to restore crumbling public safety across the Lone Star State.
No one knows more about criminal justice, in my opinion, than you. You have been watching. You have been studying. You have been gauging the situation in the Lone Star State, particularly here in its biggest City. What has happened? Why are we in trouble?Data would show we are allowing repeat violent offenders on the streets of Houston and Harris County and other urban centers settings.
The heck with the holidays! Judges ought to not take holidays off. Work through the holidays have evening and weekend court so it's not really rocket science stuff, it's the attitude of the people in charge. So everybody needs to be fired up. If not, they are going to held accountable at the ballot box.
We have got to get the backlog through the courts. If you are innocent send them home to their family. If they have put a gun in somebody's face, if they've murdered somebody you send them to TDCJ. You have got to get the violent element off the streets of Houston and Harris County.At least 180 documented cases of Harris County residents being killed by folks out on bond.
As the long-time chairman of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee, Whitmire has maintained constant oversight of the state's prison system. He says that since pandemic struck, the number of convicted criminals incarcerated in TDCJ has dropped by 20 percent - and he knows exactly where the unpunished have sought refuge. Most of them are on the streets of Houston, Harris County. I can't emphasize enough when you see someone on TV, that's on video, an armed robber, and he's not captured, they don't have a suspect, that person is doing it again, and again and again.
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