Several students were assaulted on campus this week, the university has put out a statement

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And again ; this happens a lot just in Harris County. It’s a lot of folks to lock up.
Hey, in perfect world I’d like them all be locked up and go to trial in 7 days. But that’s not realistic.

According to the report, there were 3,337 sexual assaults reported to Harris County law enforcement in 2021. Additionally, data from the Texas Department of Public Safety shows there were 14,972 reported rapes throughout the state. However, the HCSART report emphasizes that these numbers are likely a drastic undercount, as only 21.5% of survivors reported their assaults to police throughout the U.S. in 2021.

New report outlines systemic shortfalls in process of reporting sexual assaults in Harris County – Houston Public Media.

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Alternately, a bail bond company might get off a defendant’s bond and surrender it IF they fail to communicate with them, etc.

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Source?

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Check the box score

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Ha Ha! :laughing:

I’m a little slow. Thanks! :pray:

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We actually had 20 steals

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People that carry and train can save the system countless resources.

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You can tell someone to be vigilant but you can’t tell someone to be a vigilante

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I don’t want to live in third world country like Brazil or South Africa.

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HCJ is so crowded they are sending inmates to Louisiana and Misssisppi jails and have been doing so for a while.

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So what is your take on what is bogging down the criminal court system ?
Too much prosecution for drugs ? Not enough courts, judges, defense lawyers , prosecutors, etc ?

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Unless things have changed under Sean Teare, it’s definitely NOT that.

Under Kim Ogg, there was hardly any drug prosecution in Harris County except for fentanyl.

Teare, whose Mom died of an overdose, may be changing that.

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So, what in your opinion, is bogging down the criminal
court system in Harris county ? That’s the stated premise
in this thread. FWIW, I don’t really have an opinion here, because
I don’t know the inner working knowledge of the county/state legal
system and why the justice system seems to move so slowly. What’s the answer
and solution here ?

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I found that in 2019 out of 700000 arrests in TX 128000 were drug cases… seems significant to me.

Maybe that doesn’t extrapolate to Harris County… but I doubt it.

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700,000 arrests with 128,000 drug related is a lot …about 20%.
I’d expect Harris county to be about the same, if not more, but here is the
data.

Here is HC arrest data.

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And look at the number on meds in the jail population, 31% mental illness ?

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Yeah… that goes back to when we quit detaining folks with mental illness in insane asylums… now they populate our streets and jails.

Not sure which is better for them…

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Also, I wonder how many of the parole revocations are drug related…?

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Parole revocations seems to be small number, if I’m reading this right.
only 722. But doesn’t break it out by offense parole violations.

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Looks like majority in county jail are being held pre-trial.

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Of course pretrial should dominate persons in jail… looking at the first set of crime stats you shared parole revocations was a significant stat…

Goes back to your previous question as to why does it take so long to go to trial…

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A myriad of reasons.

If they are out on bond, then there isn’t exactly a rush.

And in our county, we only get about ten jury trial settings per year; we intake over 400 felony cases per year.

As such, most cases won’t go to trial and will be resolved in a different way (plea bargains, etc).

Trial settings are mostly reserved for homicides, child molesters, rapists, etc.

And again, if they are out on bond, there isn’t a huge rush.

Most felony cases won’t go to a jury trial, if they are tried at all, for at least a year or two.

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