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The Dallas Morning News
A 15-year-old girl was hospitalized Monday morning after a shooting at a school in the Ellis County town of Italy. A 16-year-old boy was taken into custody, the Ellis County Sheriff's Office said. The suspect was a student who left the Italy High building immediately after firing several shots with a .380-caliber handgun in the cafeteria, officials say. Usually 45 to 55 students are in the cafeteria at that time.
Cassie Shook, a 17-year-old junior at the school, told The Associated Press that she was driving up to the building when she saw "the doors fly open and everyone screaming and running out of the building." She said she was angry when she learned who the suspect was because she'd complained about the boy at least twice to school officials, including to a vice principal.
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KBTX-TV
The Leon County Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible murder-suicide in Normangee. According to officials, investigators were called to a home on FM 3 Tuesday night. Officers were called out after two bodies were found. Officials believe the bodies are Michael Lee Redmon, 63, and his wife Stephanie Hope Redmon, 48, both of Normangee. Investigators said that both appeared to have gunshot wounds.
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Downtown Austin Patch
The Travis County Sheriff's Office Victim Services Unit is seeking volunteers to provide immediate assistance to victims of various criminal and crisis circumstances, officials said. The issues for which volunteers are needed include family violence, sexual assaults, child/elder abuse, aggravated assaults, robberies/burglaries, suicides, structure fires, death notifications, natural/accidental deaths and major traffic accidents.
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San Antonio Express-News
If you get pulled over by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office in the near future, remember to smile for the camera. On Jan. 16, the Williamson County Commissioners Court unanimously voted to allow Sheriff Robert Chody to begin contract negotiations that will land the agency on "Live PD," an A&E cops show.
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Breitbart
A Texas sheriff ordered the arrest of an 18-wheeler driver allegedly found smuggling 57 migrants from the Rio Grande Valley. Border Patrol agents made the discovery of the human cargo loaded in the back of a locked tractor-trailer at an inspection checkpoint 80 miles from the Mexican border. Rio Grande Valley Sector agents assigned to the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint discovered 57 migrants locked in the trailer of an 18-wheeler. After federal authorities declined to prosecute the smuggler, Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez ordered his deputies to arrest the suspected smuggler on state charges of human smuggling.
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Critical task model policies available to all county law enforcement operations through the TAC Risk Management Pool help reduce liability risks and lower claims exposure. MORE
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Houston Chronicle
Crime in Houston overall continued to trend downward and fell slightly in 2017, Chief Art Acevedo said recently, as he continued to insist the department is severely understaffed and needs to grow by as many as 2,000 officers. And the chief repeated his criticism of Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials he said were making it difficult for cities to adequately police and protect themselves by focusing on unnecessary legislation regarding immigration, gender issues and local control.
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KTVT-TV
Law enforcement officers from 11 North Texas agencies attended a training course to help the officers develop a better understanding of autism. The officers were trained in how to respond, communicate and react in various situations. That included strategies that police officers could use to de-escalate situations that involved people with autism, and how to better interview suspects, victims or witnesses with autism.
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Austin American-Statesman
Interim City Manager Elaine Hart has suspended all operations of the Citizen Review Panel, saying the civilian oversight body charged with examining cases of alleged police misconduct no longer has the tools to continue operating now that the Austin police union's contract with the city has expired.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 Crime and violence have always dominated the headlines, but the latest statistics have given us some positive news as the number of violent crimes continues to drop across the U.S. Experts say the use of technology in police work may be turning the tide. Cities like Chicago, New York and Detroit have all seen the number of violent crimes — murders, shootings and robberies — on the decline in recent years thanks to the use of technology.
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PoliceOne.com
There is an old saying, "There is a time to talk, and a time to shoot," which is a concept that should be familiar to all police officers. There are also a lot of less lethal options between the two choices. Verbalization when appropriate, can, and should be used, at all levels of force. There is a time and a place for loud, forceful commands. However, using loud, repetitive verbal commands can be more of a hindrance than a help when trying to gain compliance from a resistive subject.
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