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Austin American-Statesman via Officer.com
When San Marcos police officer Kenneth Copeland went to a home to serve an arrest warrant, he embarked on a law enforcement mission known in the profession for being fraught with danger. Such operations often involve a suspect who has previously refused to quietly surrender and turn himself in, experts say, making it necessary for police to use more aggressive means to get that person into custody.
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KPRC-TV
Houston police and AT&T on Tuesday kicked off the next phase of the "It Can Wait" campaign. The joint venture is aimed at educating people about the dangers of texting while driving, by reminding drivers that a text message or phone call can wait until after their vehicle is stopped.
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San Antonio Express-News
A rogue cow reportedly attacked a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office deputy Saturday morning, sending him to the hospital. The sheriff's office responded to a report of the female cow walking down the street. When the deputy tried to contain the cow inside a resident's yard, the cow reportedly charged the deputy and knocked him to the ground.
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New York Daily News
A sheriff in Texas has decided that he will no longer hug any of his colleagues due to the recent sexual assault and harassment allegations targeting Hollywood producers and politicians. Jim Kaelin, the sheriff of Nueces County Sheriff's Office, said he will only offer handshakes and knuckle bumps because "you just don't know when this hug might come back and bite you."
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
With an eye to improving community policing, six Fort Worth police officials have been promoted to a new rank of commander, to combat a lack of "buy-in" among some of the captains who were leading divisions, after Chief Joel Fitzgerald told the City Council. Although the new positions will cost $1.2 million, he said no additional money will be required. Instead, each patrol division will be expected to reduce overtime pay costs by at least 15 percent to help make up the difference, Fitzgerald said.
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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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PoliceOne.com
At the end of 2014, the White House launched a $263 million program to equip 50,000 officers with body-worn cameras. In 2016, 95 percent of large police departments surveyed said they’d implemented BWCs or were committed to.
In the rush for funding, some police departments did not pay adequate attention to the legal issues that accompany BWCs, and their associated costs. Central amongst these is the push-pull between transparency and public access to the video and the privacy of victims and other individuals caught on tape.
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Governing
Brushy Mountain is a rare example of how states and local communities can transform empty prisons that had been a cornerstone of the local economy into other productive uses. Old, closed prisons have been turned into hotels, homeless shelters and museums. Others have been proposed as movie studios, commercial real estate and farming incubators. But actually seeing these proposals to fruition is the hard part — even as the need to repurpose them is an increasingly urgent problem.
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By Rajib Bhattacharjee
 Those who have been fortunate enough to never have dialed 911 may be unaware of the standard procedure of the call. Some of the typical questions asked by an emergency dispatcher are the standard "who, what, where, etc." line of journalistic inquiry. But not once do you hear questions like this: By what name do you call God? What is your sexual identity? Who did you vote for? To those who serve, your religious, political, sexual and socioeconomic identity does not matter.
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