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Ogden: DPS must do more about officer misconduct

There's an odd zeitgeist developing at the Texas capitol making me think the Lege may be more interested in preventing and investigating police misconduct than at any time in recent memory. I was already surprised when Governor Perry's homeland security chief this week backed Sen. John Carona's idea to create a law enforcement integrity unit at DPS.Then at a Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday, Chairman Steve Ogden raised questions with Department of Public Safety bigwigs about threats to "the reputation and integrity of this department." (See the video, beginning at 2:17:30.)Pointing out that the agency has proposed no "exceptional" budget items aimed at reducing misconduct and corruption, Ogden opined that "Nothing could be more damaging to the DPS than to have some sort of scandal or criminal conduct inside the DPS that basically destroyed the DPS and erodes the public confidence in this agency...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).