Texas Senate approves law enforcement grants

Counties with fewer than 300,000 residents could receive up to half a million dollars in state grants per year to hire more officers under a bill approved unanimously by the Senate on Tuesday. Muenster Senator Drew Springer from Muenster says that in many rural counties, all law enforcement duties are handled by a handful of sheriff’s deputies because these counties don’t have the...

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