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The high court's Friday ruling sets an even higher standard in proving whether governments can be sued over 911 responses.

State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law.

An annual use of force report showed police applied some level of force on 1,776 people in 2024. More than half of the suspects were Black.

More and more people are dying during high-speed police chases. Officers, suspects and people who weren’t involved in the chase aren't always protected from grave harm.

Experts say tracking police chases fosters transparency and can indicate whether certain pursuit policies are effective. So why don’t more states do it?

The demonstration is part of a national protest against the conservative plan to enact sweeping change within the federal government. The Texas House and Senate are also in session Wednesday.

The state's high court ruled the cities of Austin and Houston are protected by governmental immunity after their officers were sued over two separate police chase crashes.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled the city council of Buffalo, east of Waco, had the authority to fire a police officer who led a high-speed chase with a civilian passenger. The officer argued he was terminated under the wrong procedures.

A former Lewisville police officer is charged with official oppression and sexual assault for alleged inappropriate conduct with a citizen while on duty, according to a Friday press release.

The family of a late DPD officer and an injured officer are asking the state's highest court to let their suit against a fellow officer and Home Depot continue.

A Dallas County jury will decide whether Amber Guyger is liable for using excessive force by killing her neighbor Botham Jean in 2018. She's serving 10 years in prison.

A Tarrant County jury declined to indict the officer — whom Fort Worth police haven't named — for crashing into uninvolved driver Andre Craig while chasing a stolen vehicle.