Subject: Harold Hurtt

• I'm Shocked, Shocked To Be On CNN

  January 10, 2007

• The Mayor's right -- Houston Is Never, Never Trendy

  July 31, 2008

• Shoot-Out At The Crime-Stats Corral

  August 21, 2008

• Slain HPD Officer's Wife Sues Over One-Cop-Per-Car Policy

  September 24, 2008

• Holding Small Amounts Of Pot Will Still Get You Jail Time In Houston

  October 30, 2008

• Hispanics Are Almost Never Arrested For Drugs, HPD Somehow Says

  November 6, 2008

• Cops Taking On Quannel X? No Uniforms Allowed

  Some working stiffs would love to hear their boss tell them, "Hey, don't worry about those stuffy work clothes." But when that boss is HPD Chief Harold Hurtt, and those stiffs are three officers announcing a lawsuit against two men who publicly accused them of brutality, it smacks of top brass refusing to support the troops on the ground, Houston Police Officers Union President Gary Blankinship tells Hair Balls.Three HPD officers who were accused of using excessive force on Marvin Driver Jr. --

  February 27, 2009

• Spin Alert: DA and Police Chief To Praise Themselves Tomorrow

  DA Patricia Lykos and HOD chief Harold Hurtt have announced a joint press conference tomorrow, dealing with the fallout of the false conviction of Ricardo Rachell, the disfigured guy accused of being a child predator.DNA evidence exonerated him...after he'd served five years in prison.The press-conference notice indicates that yeah, maybe there have been some problems in the past, but everything's going to be great from now on: "Hurtt and Lykos will discuss positive changes in procedures and pro

  March 11, 2009

• DA's New DNA Policy Still Might Not Find Past Mistakes

  Photo courtesy patlykos.comA non-working DNA lab and lack of proper policies were among the biggest contributors to the wrongful incarceration of Ricardo Rachell, District Attorney Pat Lykos said today at a press conference in the Criminal Justice Center.Lykos and Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt apologized to the public and to Rachell, who was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2008 after serving five years of a 40-year sentence for child molestation. (Andrew Wayne Hawthorne, who in 2008 pleaded gu

  March 12, 2009

• 39 Innocent People, 500 Years In Jail: Texas Justice

  Wrap your head around this one: "Since 1994, Texas has exonerated 39 innocent people who served over 500 years in prison for crimes they did not commit."That's the first sentence of The Justice Project's new report, "Convicting the Innocent: Texas Justice Derailed." And after skimming through this thing, Hair Balls is tempted to tweak the subtitle: "Texas Justice: Assholes and Idiots."Faulty eyewitness testimony is the leading cause of these wrongful convictions. Other factors "include false for

  March 25, 2009

• Quanell Critics, Harvard Law and Extreme Recycling

  Highlights From The Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  March 12, 2009

• Hippie Cops and Loan Sharks

  June 12, 2008

• Montrose Gays, Family Violence and Blood Sucking Pols

  March 20, 2008

• Sunny Side Up

  An egg-seller's defense gets strange

  January 18, 2007

• $50K Between Friends

  A donation stirs things up at LULAC

  August 24, 2006

• Beer and Porn

  August 3, 2006

• Battle Scars

  Big John hustles on the streets of Montrose. He's been there since he was 13. For now, there's no plan B.

  September 15, 2005

• Close to the Vest

  Some HPD officers aren't so hot about safety

  August 25, 2005

• The Shocking Truth

  Houston police are looking to Tasers as a panacea. But nothing's perfect.

  October 28, 2004

• Letters

  September 16, 2004

• Undercover Cop

  New HPD Chief Hurtt is still plainclothes

  August 19, 2004

• No PAL of Mine

  The doors indeed will close on a respected program

  June 10, 2004

• Flowers of Evil

  Porn 'n' roses for Kemah's mayor

  May 27, 2004

• Hey, PAL: Get Lost

  Budget cutbacks threaten one city program that works

  May 20, 2004

• Hurtt So Good

  A real shake-up at HPD? We thought that was impossible

  May 6, 2004

• Perfect Fit

  Metro's new president already has a Houston attitude

  April 29, 2004

• What He Said

  Houston's new top cop may bring his own language barrier

  March 11, 2004

• Annise Parker Says She'll Get Rid Of HPD Chief Hurtt

  Photo courtesy Annise Parker campaignMayoral candidate Annise Parker has plans get rid of Police Chief Harold Hurtt if she's elected. "I will replace the police chief. I think he's ineffective," Parker told the Houston Property Rights Association at a luncheon on Friday. "He doesn't..." Parker was interrupted by someone in the crowd before she could elaborate. (Hair Balls wasn't at the luncheon, but we listened to a recording of it.)That's all Parker said about Hurtt, but it seems she feels stro

  June 9, 2009

• Judge Says No To Beards In The HPD

  ​The effort by some Houston police officers to wear beards on the job (and off the job, too, we guess) was dealt a setback when a federal judge threw their lawsuit out of court.HPD brass trumpeted the decision by U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal in a press release in which chief Harold Hurtt said the judge's "decision will enable the Houston Police Department to continue to equip officers so they can safely do their jobs of protecting the public at all times."Hurtt and HPD had argued that bea

  September 10, 2009

• Spy Story

  September 17, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Houstonians Finally Get Back To Killing Each Other

  ​Less than a week ago, Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt zipped off a news release proudly reporting that for the first time in memory there had been no reported murders in the city for 10 straight days."HPD's veteran Homicide investigators cannot recall a single week in the past decade without a murder in Houston," Hurtt said. "We welcome this lull in violent crime."That lull -- stretching from October 10 through 20 -- is now over, and Houston residents are back to their normal, killing ways.

  October 26, 2009