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Rick Casey on the Trail of a Mystery

By Steve Hall

"Mystery: Who killed witness bill?," is the title of Casey's Houston Chronicle column from Friday's edition.We all love a mystery, so here's one:In the current issue of Badge and Gun, a publication of the Houston Police Officers' Union, union President Gary Blankinship writes that during the last legislative session the union ?defeated a number of issues that negatively impacted our jobs. These issues included the establishment in statute policy issues related to how police lineups and photo spreads are held or conducted.?The mystery is why police officers would oppose the bill, by Houston Sen. Rodney Ellis, which would have commissioned a law enforcement management institute at Sam Houston State University to study the best practices for both photo and in-person lineups so as to minimize false identifications...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).