How Not to Bring Dope Through DFW Airport

As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to California. They were carrying with them 11 vacuum-packed boxes…

Kicking the Class C Ticket Out of Classrooms

Since the beginning of the year, two reports have documented how Texas’s school districts punish their students: Texas Appleseed’s Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools How the Myth of the “Blackboard Jungle” Reshaped School Disciplinary Policy, released in January as part of its Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline series, and…

Dallas PD’s Idea of “Spring Cleaning”

For the next three weeks, the Dallas Police Department will focus its attention on these mostly southern-sector neighborhoods near Bruton Road & Masters Drive, Hatcher Street & Scyene Road, Sunnyvale Street & Custer Drive, Beacon Street & Columbia Avenue and Polk Street & Twelfth Street. Says the DPD, it’s part…