Harris County sheriff's deputies and Houston police officer are testing a more humane...
The Scorpion unit lived up to that billing. Residents accused them of hiding out in unmarked cars, using violent tactics, and mass pullovers under dubious pretenses with the hope of racking up arrests. Notably, it's still unclear why officers felt justified to pull over Nichols in a traffic stop before they beat him to death.
“People have gotten used to us being there and have brought things to us like, ‘Hey, we would like to talk to you about X, Y, or Z,’ whether it's to report a crime, family violence or anything else,” Diaz told the editorial board.seemed to confirm this last week when a member of the editorial board visited.
America Bailey, 27, walks with her baby, Taylor, in the Cypress Station area in north Harris County on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.Of course, the stationary patrols are not necessarily representative of the crime reduction unit’s larger tactical strategy. For one thing, “high danger” traffic stops –last year – are still a pillar of the squad’s responsibilities.
Whereas the five officers who stopped Nichols were unsupervised and patrolling in unmarked cars, the sheriff’s office requires having a sergeant on scene directly responsible for deputies, and all deputies are uniformed in clearly marked vehicles. Diaz added that the traffic stops conducted by these deputies aren’t simply a pretext to raid someone’s car for contraband. Roughly 60 percent of their traffic stops end in a warning and 40 percent end in a citation, he said.
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