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Will DPS get a "law enforcement integrity unit"?

State Sen. John Carona has thrown down the gauntlet on law enforcement malfeasance, filing SB 388 which would establish a new "integrity unit" at the Texas Department of Public Safety to investigate police corruption.I've been complaining about Gov. Perry's pork-barrel border security program, mostly because it failed to do exactly what Sen. Carona aims to accomplish with SB 388: Focus first on reducing police corruption instead of throwing good money after bad, including sometimes giving it to people who are themselves working for the drug cartels.One also notes the popularizing and broadening of the term "integrity unit," which to my knowledge finds its origins in Dallas County DA Craig Watkins' "Conviction Integrity Unit," before the Court of Criminal Appeals created its own "Integrity Unit" as essentially a study group...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 24, 2008 (boomark / email).