Yes, yes, yes, I’ve seen it — Forbes has named Plano “America’s Safest City,” based upon a low-low-low violent crime rate and a relatively low number of killer car crashes. Thanks to the many Friends who’ve sent the piece, which says money matters — so too homogeneity. Which is nice…
A couple of days back, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we watched five men boost $40,000 worth of jewels from a Stemmons Expressway wholesaler. Today, against thanks to a DPD-provided video, we’re offered this look at three men ripping the office door out of the Malones Cost Plus on 3939…
As mentioned yesterday, several of the Dallas County exonerees appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live last night, where they were joined by the stars of the movie Conviction, The Innocence Project’s Barry Sheck and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. On the other side you’ll find King’s interviews with several…
Deborah LusterThomas McGowan, who served 23 years for a burglary and sexual assault in Richardson he did not commitTheir names are, or should be, familiar by now, among them: Thomas McGowan, Entre Nax Karage, Johnnie Lindsey, James Giles, Eugene Henton and Stephen Brodie. Certainly, by now, you know their stories:…
The Dallas Police Department sends word: At around 4 this morning, officers got the call that the alarm was going off at Modes Inc., a longtime wholesale jeweler at 2629 Stemmons Freeway. Around the same time, says the DPD, someone walking to and from a nearby 7-Eleven called 911 to…
One of our own’s presently teaching at Brookhaven College, which, for the second time in a week, is on lockdown. Last week it involved two men who’d robbed a nearby apartment complex; that was Thursday night. This afternoon’s lockdown appears to be a whole different event: Reports from within the…
Andrea’s decided to spend some time at the city council’s Public Safety Committee briefing this afternoon, where she’ll learn a little more about iWatch Dallas, the DPD’s just-launched “virtual crime watch” that allows the citizenry to type in tips from their computers and cell phones. Says the DPD, “iWatch Dallas…
The Enforcement Expo wraps up its three-day stay at the Dallas Convention Center today, which means: There’s goes the Fear and Loathing coverage I’d planned for months. But that’s not important. What is? Yesterday’s presentation by a 21-year vet of the Texas Highway Patrol, during which the great Dub Gillum…
Brion RandallBased upon the handful of comments that just popped up on this 4-month-old Unfair Park item, some of his victims already know and have been celebrating the news: Brion Randall — the Plano man who, from 2004 through ’09, screwed some 30 folks out of around $6 million –…
An Iraq-born U.S. Army translator and his wife have filed suit against the Dallas Police Department and a local nightclub, alleging that the husband was beaten and pepper-sprayed to the point of unconsciousness by off-duty police officers who made “racial and degrading comments” last summer outside the Al-Amir club and…
Over these many years I’ve lost track of the number of Dallas crime maps that have come and gone — seem to recall having SpotCrime bookmarked at one point, there’s the slow-loading CrimeWatch, and the city has its own rustic site that looks like something that was very ahead of…
Jeff Carlton at the Associated Press was the one who, in July, first offered the story of Stephen Brodie — the deaf man who, in 1991, was detained by Richardson police for stealing quarters out of a soda machine and ended up pleading guilty to the unsolved sexual assault of…
By which I mean: your “potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.” That’s per the Dallas Police Department’s release, sent moments ago, in which it says the DPD and Drug Enforcement Agency will be celebrating Prescription Drug Take Back Day tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are…
Justin TerveenClick to embiggen Justin’s picture of the State Fair-grounds last nightRick Perry’s a disappointment, Craig Watkins is a “demagogue,” Jason Roberts is a fixer — all the name-calling you fit whilst awaiting your first Fletcher’s corn dog of the fall season …Following an outing to Fair Park, speaking of,…
One of the officers in this picture was fired yesterday. (Hint: the one in the middle.)Dallas Police Chief David Brown isn’t messing around: Late yesterday the DPD sent out yet another laundry list of officers being terminated, the third such release in the past few days, bringing the total of…
So happens that a good Friend of Unfair Park transferred — and augmented — that dash-cam video on which a Good Citizen captured that phony peace officer with the laser-sighted semi-automatic about a block from the Oak Lawn Eatzi’s a few days back. Our Friends passed along a much better…
Maybe you were shocked to discover that copy of Der Gute Onkel you downloaded wasn’t, in fact, a meditative German cop drama from 1998. Or maybe that feel-good family porn video was exactly what you were looking for. But if you pulled it off a BitTorrent site in the last,…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: On September 19, 2010, at about 12:30 am, the pictured suspect was seen by a complainant performing a traffic stop in an unmarked, black Ford, 4 door sedan, at Lemmon Avenue and Wycliff Avenue. The complainant suspected that the suspect was not…
Not saying I know something you don’t, but: if Dallas gets hit with a bioterrorism attack, and the only vaccine is inside a heavily guarded briefcase at Parkland Hospital, and the only doctor who knows how to make more of it is being held hostage by a gun-wielding maniac –…
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court against the city of Dallas, an 18-year employee of the Dallas Police Department alleges that she’s been sexually harassed by a sergeant, ignored by the chain of command and retaliated against by fellow officers for filing complaints. Casandra Jones, who was…
Photos by Andrea GrimesLisa Stone’s friends pray for answers — and justice — in her disappearance.Holding candles and cupcakes, Lisa Stone’s friends met to sing, pray and shed tears last night under the billboard they hope will help them find answers as to why Stone has been missing for more…
This is just an arm-chair amateur speaking, but Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s response to the motorcycle beat-down scandal seems right-on to me. Brown is going to require his more veteran coppers to work afternoon and midnight shifts with the rookies so that the rookies won’t all be out on…
