A Defense Of Harris County Constables

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Episode Transcript

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Time to bury the tired narrative,tired narrative and uncover these stories not typically
heard, but stories that need tobe heard, right or wrong, life
or death. This isn't your typicallaws show. This is Big Angry Law

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with Charles Big Angry Adams on kPrZ nine Now Charles Adams. Well,
good evening, ladies and gentlemen.Is Charles Adams. It is nine fifty
am, KPRC, Real, Texas, real talk. And before I dive

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into the many stories I want totalk about today, I would like to
pause and wish my condolences to thefamily of retired Missouri County District Court Judge
Randall Hoffsteddler, Judge Huffsteler or Randy. When he was off the bench and

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he could take a plea real,real slow. Sometimes you were in that
courtroom all day when it didn't feelnecessary, and he could be a bit
of a hard case sometimes, Butwhen he was being a hard case,
typically he should be. US lawyerswere just trying to lawyer our clients' way

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out of what they brought upon themselves. One thing I admired tremendously about Judge
Hoffsteler was the fact that he alwaysknew the law, and I never felt
even in my earliest days, youknow, fifteen sixteen years ago, practicing

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in Missouri County. I've been alawyer for longer, but when I first
had a case down there, Inever felt. I never felt hometown,
and I never felt as the yearsprogressed that I witnessed him hometown other people.
And he always was willing to holdthe state's feet to the fire as
much as the Defense Council, whichis a rarity. He retired just about

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a year ago and passed away,a younger guy, a little bit older
than me, but not much,and passed away today or yesterday, and
absolutely devastating, heartbreaking news. Andthey say most men die within five years

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of retirement. I will work forever, I believe, but it's it was
incredibly unexpected, and I am verysad for his wonderful family, and it's
it's a great loss to the BrazoriCounty bar and a great loss of a
public servant that truly cared about hisrole and his obligations to his oath.

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Plus I really like Randy, whichis also a rarity with judges, and
he will definitely be missed now forthe listeners not in local Let me set
a little groundwork before this topic.So typically in Texas, in most counties,
constables are focused almost exclusively or almostexclusively on the administration of civil justice,

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with very little criminal aspect to theirfunction. It has long been known
that the expansion of the constable policepowers of curred in Harris County because of
discord I believe sixty or seventy yearsago between the county Judge, which is

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the mayor of the county, thetop elected official administrator, and the Commissioner's
Court, which is the equivalent ofa city council, if we're making the
county analogous to a municipality, Andbecause of that conflict, they expanded the
function of constables. It might havebeen seventy years ago, and in my

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entire lifetime and most almost all Houstoniansthat they have been aware of the constable
precincts having independent patrol officers patrol deputies, and there has been long early on
in our current county Judge's tenure,she lambasted constables because of what we call

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neighborhood patrols, where neighborhoods, bigsuburban neighborhoods kick in a portion of the
constable salaries the deputy salaries, sothey will focus their patrol energies on that
neighborhood make it far more responsive.She decided that was classist and racist because
apparently, in her stupidity, sheassumed that all suburban neighborhoods that did this

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were incredibly affluent, which of courseis not at all the case. And
even in neighborhoods where they're not paidneighborhood officers, they constable precincts are far
far more responsive to the community becausethey are elected by the neighborhoods they patrol.
There's eight precincts in the county that'sdivided up as opposed to the county

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as a whole, and the chiefadministrator of that department, the constable,
is an elected official that is notgoing to win necessarily as the whole county
goes. In fact, you havethe constables are one of the few county
positions where you have both Republicans andDemocrats in those positions throughout the county.

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Why because people are voting for someonethey actually know or they have actually had
campaign directly at them. Ninety ninetimes out of one hundred Gospels tend to
be incredibly community involved. Lena Hidalgo, although she claimed racism and classism,
was actually working at the behest ofone of the commissioners, Adrian Garcia,

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the former sheriff. It was longwanted to centralize the control of deputies on
patrol in Harris County, in theHouston area under one person, that is
the sheriff. The problem with thatmath is well, not as bad as
HPD, but the so and oneof my dearest friends is lieutenant with the

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SOO. A big fan of theSOO and the deputies that go out there
and work every day. The problemis the top tiered administrators, much like
the top tier administrators of HPD,have decided that responding to crime is not
the function of the police. Thuswhen you call the police, when you

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call the Sheriff's Department or HPD,you will be very very lucky if anyone
bothers to respond in twenty twenty four, and that is insane, including for
things like an active ongoing burglary,but most certainly for things like reports to
report crime, which, of course, if people aren't reporting crime, crime

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looks suppressed without actually accomplishing anything.And it is this new gaming of statistics
that is going incredibly ignored by ourlocal journalists. That alarms me the most.
When we get back, I wantto talk about the Houston Chronicle,
our big newspapers decision to focus theirefforts on attacking the constables. In just

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a moment at Big and Green Wallswith Charles Adams on k p R C
nine fifty, doo doo doo doo, I said, don't ta h like

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I see you see do del thisCharles Adas Big Anger Radio. We went

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to break. We were going totalk about in this segment the recent series
of attacks by our main Houston Ithink our only standing last paper standing,
the Houston Chronicle, and they hadfocused their ire a while back, about
a year maybe a year and ahalf ago time flies on crime stoppers and

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were incredibly unfair. And the journalistthat got a lot of attention for his
attacks. I had him on thisshow and interviewed him, and he subsequently
asked me not to air the interviewbecause of course is math did not check
out and did not take it.It wasn't a difficult cross examination. It

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was a very civil discussion where hispositions melted away, much like the positions
of the Houston Chronicle and attacking theexistence of constable patrols here in Harris County,
in a city one of the highestcrime rates in the country, Houston,

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incredibly high murder rates, incredibly highunsolved murder rates. We just found
out that hundreds of thousands of caseswere not investigated, not murders, but
incredible number of sexual assaults. Ithink six thousand and hundreds of thousands of
other crimes were never investigated and theywere cleared because of staffing deficiencies, which

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is of course insane. But let'sI mean this new what we're pushing.
What Americans are being told now,don't call nine to one unless someone's life
is in danger. We're being taughtnot to expect a police response to theft,
even if you catch the thief.Restorative justice. The bad guys are

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the good guys. There's a horriblestories, horrible story about a murderer in
San Francisco. There's a lot ofstuff I could talk about that I intended
to, but I always get sidetrackedright by something that has me genuinely been
out of shape, and these chroniclearticles do I mean it's in before I
keep digressing sorry, I pulled overyesterday. Absolutely my fault ran a red

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light. Right now, I'm drivingfrom my house to the Good Company Kitchen
and Canteena and the Heights the bestof that. Good Company has a number
of franchises. They're seafood there.They've got an interesting Southern South like southeast

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Gulf Coast restaurant up in the Woodlands. I forget the name of it.
They've got a Tacorea, they've gotthe barbecue. They've got anyway, but
this Good and Company Kitchen and Canteenais kind of the more upscale back.
They got one in the Woodlands,one out towards Memorial and those are okay,
but the one in the Heights isjust phenomenal. It's amazing. My

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son likes it so much. Weliterally went there he was home from law
school. We went there on Fridayand Sunday, Sunday Saint Patrick's Day.
Where we're going there and I geton wall and I see a few blocks
this pretty straight shot where on thepart of the wall I'm driving up and
I see a few blocks up Abunch of it is like traffic jam.

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Of course, we're having to stopand go around in the marriage in the
lane. I couldn't figure out why, and it's because a scumbag is just
walking against traffic in the middle ofa lane. Now, there are sidewalks
on each side of the street,and there is a completely and almost always
on used bike lane that robbed usof an entire lane of traffic. Us

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as in the citizens of the Montrosearea, so we could have this beautiful
but completely unused bikelin. None ofthose three options were good enough for this
comeback. You just walking in alane of traffic irritated me. Also caused

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me to catch a light. Iwas irritated, and I go up a
little bit further on the wall andthere's a street that ends into a Whole
Foods parking lot and there are lightsthat go both ways there. Now I
considered a parking lot light, andthe next light is where you're going over
Allen Parkway. Both those lights aregreen. Were stopped at this light.

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I'm like, man, that's gonnabe This homeless dude made me catch that
line. Then I want to catchthis light, and then I'm just irritating.
People are also driving poorly at SaintPatrick's Day, I of course have
had nothing to drink, and thenthree people run the light after it turns
green. I'm motioning with my handto just hit the microphone and going straight
across into Whole Foods, which I'mthinking in my head internally, this is

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going to make me catch this damnlight. And sure enough, just as
I start going, the green lightturns. Yell. So I got it
a bit, but not even closeto speeding, but just to get through
the light, wells that light turns. The next one also turns simultaneously back
to back lights just on either sideof the bridge that goes across Allen Parkway.

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Well, I just punch it andgo through. As I go through
it, I see the Houston officerright behind me, so I've run and
I don't think I ran both,but I definitely ran the second. So
I see him behind you. IfI even turns his lights and sirens on,
I go ahead and pull over theright light. I know I'm cad.
I'm gonna take the ticket. Ideserve this ticket, right. I
was just irritated. Now it makesme wonder why he didn't say anything to

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the homeless scumbag walking in the middleof lane of traffic making everybody stop and
just glarmering while they're being obnoxious.And he did not and he didn't even
look homeless. He just looked likea human. He was too dressed to
be home, well dressed to behomeless. But you know, when I
was a policeman, but I've seensomebody causing traffic chaos because they're walking in
the middle of the road like ab the phone. I'm stopping my car.

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Deal with now. I don't knowif this officer was behind me that
long. I don't have any idea. But of course, when I saw
those three cars run that redlight,a hard green like my light was green,
definitely going to stop them. ButI know, I know I did
it. I pull over. It'sthe bridge, and he lights me up.

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But I slow down and get inthe right lane and I'm just gonna
drive over the Memorial Bridge, whichis right after the down Parkway. There's
a road right there with the parkstop there, so I slow way down
and do that. But he hitshis siren a couple times, so I'm
thinking, man, this guy hewants me to stop here, And of
course I soon HPD officer. He'slooking for dwis in Saint Patrick's because of
course they're never doing anything around hereever, right, they just let people

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sell drugs in front of McDonald's.It's just insank, right, I've got
a point here, so pulls me. Uh, He's like, gets on
this, threw door On't you drivethere? So I start going again,
but then he hits the cibhen again. I'm thinking, does he want me
to stop here? It's done?Hold on, so I go. I'll
pull over. But they didn't pullfar enough over down the street for him.
They just charge up. He's pissedoff, right, you know immediately

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amen, I know read that light. Sorry, you know, but he's
fussing gonna be about where I stoppedinstead and your speeding. I wasn't speeding,
but I did run the light.I don't know, well if you
hit the siren. He's very mad. And then he recognizes me, and
I recognize him as the sergeant whofinally came out after HPD came out six
seven times. It never did anythingto the scumbag and the apartments across the

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street that are now closed that wascausing havoc and attacking other residents and just
being an all around jerk until thepeople in the apartment came and asked me
if I could help, right,and he was also cranking on his car,
just just ruining this entire street ina very nice neighborhood just to meth
head, also either dealing or constantlybuying met And then the cops came out

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and did nothing. I had togo to a commander that I knew,
and he and our captain that Iknew, and he got a hold of
the sergeant and you know, hadhim come out. And it turns out
I think I had a bunch ofwarrants and like a slew of warrants,
and the car that was causing allthe problem was unregistered and not his,
and it's just this whole thing.So he's mad at me. Then he

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realized who I am, and he'slike, oh, you know, I
did you a favor. And I'mthinking, no, I had to get
a hold of you to get yousomeone that works for you to do their
damn job right. But I'm notmad about the ticket at all, Like
I absolutely deserve this ticket, butI don't deserve the ass to and I'm
not in the mood to take itright. But then he didn't give me

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the ticket, so I apologized eventhough I didn't feel like I'd done anything
wrong other than the speeding. Butagain, if we would just go back
to policing and getting the homeless offthe street, I don't never end them.
Big angry law with Charles Adams continues, some of you in the smile

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got you like you won't need tocut the lipschut saddle me, and such
a part of you humble is Iused to be a little in the ships

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killing me killing. I thought disarmwould be appropriate for this topic, but
I should have saved it. Probablytomorrow I'll talk about the wonderful response I
got from the pro Second Amendment crowdon my pro First Amendment Twitter post last
week, and how their arguments mirrorthe arguments of those on the left wanting

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to strip us of our gun rights. But the Houston Chronicle, our local
newspaper, is wanting to disarm constablesat least so it seems from the tone
and tenor of their in depth reportingthat I have been beating around the bush
to talk about. I first noticedthis when a Chronicle reporter, Matt Schwartz,

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who follows me and I I followhim, and he seems like a
pretty decent guy tweeted, my friendsHouston Krohn have a terrific, in depth
look at Harris County's unique and questionableconstable system. I cannot tweet it out
on my phone. However, asthe song says, if you like it,
then you should have put a sharebutton on it. So of course
I've got to go read this,and I don't subscribe to the paper any

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longer. I don't subscribe because notbecause my issues with their narrative pushing and
duplicity, but they had actually areporter wrote something blatantly false about a client
of mine, and it pertains toa resolution of a criminal case that I
was working on, and I reachedout to try to correct the mistake and

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I was rebuffed and it was verya very personal attack on my client that
struck me as incredibly unfair. Now, when I was rebuffed, I went
ahead and found that Fellaw's Instagram andposted something about that, and he was
upset apparently about that decision. I'veheard that from one of his former colleagues,

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so I don't know that's hearsay,who knows if it's true, but
one bad turn deserver. I thoughtI was just identifying him. I wasn't
being mean spirited be so I wasdone, and I said, I'm done.
I'm gonna not be subscribed to thispaper I've been subscribed to for decades.
Right, it was such a nightmarehassle to unsubscribe. And I saw

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someone else tweeting about this similar hasslethey've had unscribed. Of course, you
know why they make it difficult tounsubscribe, probably because a lot of people
were unsubscribing. And it's just likethe La Times dying at slow death and
all these newspapers that have decided thatinstead of journalism and pushing the truth to
people, they were going to pushwhat they thought people should believe. And
that's from the New York Times ondown. And my problem with that math,

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that that old gray lady math allthe way down, that new modern
yellow journalism that's all far far left, progressive leaning is in. It pushes
ears in people to the far farright, that just lies to them about
other things and for other reasons,while getting some things right that people can
hang on to, and pandering awhole lot. It's all about idea,

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because of course, why not justtry the damn truth. I guess the
truth doesn't get clicks. The truthdoesn't sell, and that's why people lean
into microphones and lie to you everyday and type out words on their computer
filled with absurd dishonesty. So,but Matt suggested it, I was concerned
about the questionable because I'm aware asa resident of this county that if you

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want police to actually respond nowadays,you've got to call the Constable's office,
because of course HPD and so havedecided for almost everything other than the most
violent of crimes that they're just goingto take a hard pass, which is
absolutely insane and emboldening to criminals,but it does effectively, you know,

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lower drastically lower crime statistics, andthen you can claim that crime isn't occurring
when it actually is and it's justbecause people have given up on reporting it.
And of course that sort of statisticalmanipulation, that gaming of the truth
is something that I think the Chronicleshould be really really interested in and rooting
out and demanding answers. But theywait and they wait and they wait until,

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like HPD decides that, oh,we're going to admit that we haven't
investigated hundreds of thousands of cases.Why why did we have to rely on
their admitting of it. Why hadn'tthe chronicle suss that out before? I
don't know. Sust is not anappropriate word. I think sus means sus
in the olden days it means likeinvestigating something, and nowadays it means suspicious.

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That's very suss. The kids todayare probably the kids ten years ago,
and it's just now trickling its wayto me. But anyway, so
you know, I tweeted quote retweetor quote re x, whatever it's called
now. The article read like ahit piece that intentionally ignored all the incredible
gaps in the system that have grownconsiderably in the last few years, increasingly
filled by console patrols who appear tobe the only ones willing to timely respond

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to accidents in low level of victimcrime. I am sure those in Harris
County governments seeking the centralized control wereextremely pleased by the complete failure to investigate
why the public increasingly is looking tothe constables just to get someone in law
enforcement to actually respond to a callfor service. Top shelf propaganda, So
I thought was a pretty fair criticism. Now I got a response from someone

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I've never interacted with online before,who turns out to be the newsroom operations
manager of the Houston Chronicle TCU inNorthwestern University, and he has a LGBT
and a transflag and proclaims himself anally, which is probably acquired nowadays to

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be a journalist, not to bean ally. I've a long considered myself
at least supportive before you know it, was a strong supportive of gay marriage
forever. I believe in liberty anda strong supporter of not being allowed to
just discriminate against someone because they're anorientation. But of course I also think
a woman being barred from her JIMin Alaska because she was upset because a

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straight up man was shaving in thewomen's locker room. Is it not his
legs but his face that and thatshe's the one that it's insane to me.
I mean, it's just it's thependulum, you know. The pendulum
swings one way to bigotry to anotherway to and no one wants to be
reasonable. But anyway, I'm amusedby the fact that he's a self proclaims

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himself an ally. I really thinkthat's someone that's that's something that someone else
needs to decide you are, notsomething you should declare yourself. But anyway,
Jordan ray Hart tweets to me,Hi, Charles, the game in
the system you mentioned are promptly featuredand the second story and adds a link
as if I didn't read all thestories that where they put out, you

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know, apparently I don't know howto research anything, but it led me
to Jordan ray Hart's Twitter just tosee, well, I want to see
what he asked to say generally andwell, his very last tweet is well,
he had quote retweeted the Houston Chroniclespost about the article, which is

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how did relatively obscure Texas police forcebecome a political powerhouse? Read the first
part of the Houston Chronicles four partinvestigation. Well, so, he tweeted
twelve hours ago. For more thana year, I've been working with a
team of investigative reporters at the HoustonChronicle on one of our most ambitious projects
to date, and it's finally here, Unchecked Forces. It's a four part

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investigation on the Harris County constables.He continued. You've probably seen constables drive
around Houston, But what are they? What makes them different from regular cops?
As if they're not regular cops right, How did they become so powerful?
And does anyone make sure they're usingthat power responsibly? He goes into
applauding them. But this is whatstruck me is worth mentioning. He wrote,

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after an incredible work by all theseinvestigator reporters, amusing air quotes to
bring this balanced, a nuanced pieceof journalism to life, the amount of
time balanced in nuanced. Let meread you the three headlines that were at
the very top of the Houston Chronicleearlier today, all of the very top,
back to back to back. Thefirst one unchecked forces county constables keep

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growing despite rarely tackling serious crime.How unchecked police agencies became a political powerhouse
in Aris County? Sam Houston tollwaytraffic stops rise as constable patrol grows to
one sixty? What does a constabledo in Harris County? And if you

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get into the meat and potatoes ofthis article, In fact, the article
that he said was I guess hewas referring to as fair and balanced,
the one that talked about how youknow, HPD in the county don't really
respond to crime anymore, and whenthey do, they really really take their
time and just began with because they'restretched too thin. Right, that's just

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the BS narrative of the day,you know it as opposed to a staffing
decisions made to ensure that people werebeing trained as a populist, that we
shouldn't call the police because it's pointless, which is insane. It's insane that
Whittmeyer hasn't replaced the chief. It'sinsane that we are not demanding sweeping changes.

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It is absolutely crazy, insane thatwe would rather just be inundated with
daily anyway, we're back in justa moment. You're listening. You're listening
to a big angry law on KPRC. You'll say, we've got nothing in

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common, you common ground to startfrom, and we're falling up f You're
saying the world less cove between us, lots of cove between us. Said,

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I know you just stole and Isaid, I'm frank listening to She
said, I a night remember thebell as I recall thing looking And I
said, well, last one thing, Yes, I sound like I had

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that a little loud. I'm nota professional, as you're well aware.
Charles Addams, Big Anger Radio,thank you for joining us tonight. This
is one of the few times,and I wish that I hadn't given up
the second hour of the show becauseI'm so busy. I don't, as
y'all regular listeners know, I don'tget nearly enough shows done, and when

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it was two hours, it wasjust a mental impediment to doing anything at
all. I am incredibly busy.But we've been talking about what strikes me
as these hit pieces on the constablepatrols here in Houston by the Houston Chronicle,
right, which I have found hasgone into a you know, I

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don't want to call it Neil Marxistbecause that sounds like Alex Jones nonsense,
Neil Marxist propaganda, but it doesfeel like they are working in collusion with
the far far left progressive forces ofthis county to minimize Democrat corruption, maximize
anything they can allege against Republicans,which I have all kinds of criticism Republicans,

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you know, and absolutely conservative newspacesdo the exact thing in reverse,
but they wear their agenda kanda onnotheir sleeve where they're Chronicle. They all
pretend to be actual journalists. Butso one of the supervisors, or you
know, I've read his title,had tweeted at me that this second article

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and their unchecked forces, As ifthat doesn't set the tone right there,
these unchecked forces, it doesn't isn'tjust a hit piece, he said,
talked about them being balanced and nuancedand addressed the things the gospels do right.
And that's a paraphrasing. Maybe I'llread the tweeter. Yeah, go
listen to the podcast. You'll seeif you missed it on the radio.

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But anyway, they wrote. Beckyhad been sitting was driving home from the
bank last summer when she realised awhite sedan was following her. She never
considered calling the Houston Police Department,which she had long considered to be stretched
too thin. Yes, the residentdoesn't call the police when they're scared because
they're worried about the resources of theHouston Police Department. The fact that they

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wrote that, and they made thatseem credible and sensible is insane to me.
Instead, it had been pulled upher phone's favorite list in dialed C,
short for the precing five Constabel's Office, which provides supplementary patrols in her
Westbury neighborhood. Now, mind you, now from us in Westbury is becoming
a bit gentrified, but for avery long time was an absolute war zone

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of crime. Okay, A dispatcherpicked up on me, and still lots
of crime. A dispatcher picked upimmediately and stayed on the phone with her
in the entire drive When she gothome, Adputy Costabels waiting in her driveway.
You see how they framed that.They framed that as well. She
would have called HPD, but youknow, she's worried about there being stretched

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too thin, She's terrified for life, But really she was worried about HPD's
resources. No, she didn't callHPD, you wonderful chronicle journalists, because
she damn well knew they wouldn't bethere to help, period. And instead
she called the Constable's apartment and guesswhat, they were there to help,

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just like I was expected to bewhen I was a policeman, just like
HPD officers were expected to be indecades past. But instead of focusing their
investigation on why the citizens of Houstondon't feel like they can rely on the
Houston Police Department for anything except thevery very very very worst of situations,

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and also to write you tickets abunch of tickets, right, But anything
else, like anything else, youcan't. I got a friend who the
dispatcher told him to stop following theperson that hadn't ran on him a few
weeks ago, and they said,sending an officer out now. And he
parked to wait for the officer andthen called me and I said, that

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was the stupidest thing you could haveever done. They're never coming. Two
hours later he called me and Inever came. I had to call a
supervisor I knew who then looked intoit and got someone dispatched out there.
That's how insane it is. Butthis is how HPD is, it's characterized.
And then this whole article, thiswhole I talks about the programmature's fast

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response times and constant police visibility forneighborhoods like Westbully are willing to cover most
of the cost of hiring acts.Oh so the neighborhoods are paying the cost.
But let's still find a way tobitch about it, chronicle. But
it also ties up twelve hundred patroldeputies handling mostly mundane calls and typically low
crime neighborhoods, leaving fewer officers wherethey're needed most of the time when violent

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crime is a top conserve for Ustonians. Hey, I don't know journalists,
but here's the thing. They getthe contracts. They actually add officers and
they're higher on a contract based onthe contracts with the neighborhoods. So it's
not at all reducing those that patrol. In fact, it's enhancing the amount
of police in the area to respondto crime. That entire paragraph was absolutely

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disgustingly dishonest, and it's insane.It's insane. The math you do,
it's insane. How willing you areto engage in this is incredible genia.
Just gymnastic like analysis, a gymnast. Now, what's the person that bendens

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their body at all? Contortionist?There you go, a contortionist like journalistic
math to get to where they're going, which is, oh my god.
Community policing is a bad, badthing. And yes, they're just responding
to by mundane. They mean burglaries, they mean vandalism, they mean theft.

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Because the Chronicle, along with HPand in the Sheriff's Department, I've
largely decided, hey, we're justnot going to respond to that stuff.
Deal with it yourself. But ifyou deal with it too, forcefully.
We'll make sure to come and arrestyou. Remember the story I talked about
last week about the guy who chaseddown the guy who just stole his car
in his wife's car and shot him, and now he's charged with murder.

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Insanity, insanity. But anyway,if you keep reading this, it just
goes on and on and on aboutbasically how bad having constables are. There
are things that I greatly disagree within our law enforcement paradigm. I don't

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think the deputy constables don't have civilservices protection. I think they should.
I think that oftentimes the constables arefar too tick attack and tend to search
cars all the time looking for drugs. I have a real problem with that,
right. I think the only functionof police officers on patrol right now
should be public safety. You don'tpull someone else over unless they're driving recklessly

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in a manner that endangers others,stop working tags and other nonsense. But
if you pull them over and theydon't have insurance, tell their damn car
like we used to, because theyare a danger to everyone. The dead
doesn't can't afford anything but liability orgetting up taking their butts to a job
every day. Anyway, another digression. Right now, we're in a paradigm

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where you only it seems like copsare only writing tickets to people that they
think. I don't know, it'sjust it's crazy. It's crazy that the
Chronicle would devote all this time andenergy and dismissively and derisively talk about the
one law enforcement in this great city, this crumbling great city that still responds

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to crime. And while I havemy criticisms of some constable's departments in this
county, mainly I recognize and everycitizen recognizes, and that the Chronicle tried
its best to put a derisive spinon that the constables are the ones that
show up and they're the ones thatyou should call, because ninety nine times

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out of one hundred, if someone'snot being murdered, HPD's not coming,
the ESO is not coming. Andthat's not to criticize all my friends that
work for either of those departments,because I know, I know you rank
and file officers. You would belike the officers in the nineties and the
two thousands if you are allowed toby the scumbag administrator, steering those great

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departments into the ditch. And it'sa time that we all stick up criticize
law enforcement. Criticism is due,but damn it. We need this city
to be safer and it's the onlyway to do it is community policing.
Thanks for listening.