Houston and Harris County is full of them.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...-on-2489696.php

no surprise there, had hpd cops pull me over in the semi and try to fabricate krap. both times I pointed out they were not dot certified and I could and would call the fed marshalls office if they persisted. hate houston with a passion.

78 and 72 years old....think they'll get life?

So is Dallas

Wiener

Thats them thinking they were above the law

i wouldn't call Constable's cops...but you can if you'd like. Meh...

Ding....Not in a million years

They are ALL corrupt and crooked. in every town across this nation.

What exactly does a constable do? I have never figured it out.

exactly.

Hang around court rooms and act like a big shot.

I have actually seen them using radar to write tickets.

I thought that they just served warrants for traffic tickets and such, and served papers for civil suits?

Here in San Antonio, they love to sit on the side of Loop 410 and write speeding tickets.

On a trip to Galveston, we ran across a cop pulled over on the left shoulder of the highway with a radar gun pointed at on coming traffic......it was bumper to bumper traffic and no one was going over 10 mph.....good use of tax payer $$$$$

On the Lil Rascals, he gets kids who play hooky.
We were all afraid of "The Constable" when I was a little kid, although non of us had ever actually seen one.

Man I do not want to be working when I am 78 or even 72 years old, of course if I was getting kickbacks I guess it would be worth sticking around...

they serve civil papers, do civil standby's, serve as baliff's for their JP, some run traffic and issue citations, some back us up on calls since we are usually alone... most work 8-5 then go to an off duty job for the rest of the night and prolly pull in 85-90k a year... Theyre are similar to firefighters with all the time off for extra jobs... OH SNAP!

In most counties, the constables office is used exclusively as an officer of the court. They are bailiffs in a JP court, serve summons, serve warrants, and serve as an enforcement officer for any court ordered eviction.

However, in Harris County every Constables office has a patrol division. They are responsible for the patrol of county parks, county tollway system and they also do traffic enforcement on any roadway in the county within their precinct. They patrol 24/7/365.

What the JP does with all the money they rake in is beyond my imagination. If you get a traffic citation in Harris county you are more likely to get it from a constable than you are a county sheriffs deputy or a houston police officer.

http://www.cd4.hctx.net/units.php

That is a link to my precincts constables office. As you see, they do everything from crime scene photography to having mounted patrols, to traffic enforcement to high water rescue to the clean air task force.

They are everything a Sheriffs office or City Police force is plus the JP's biatch.

I've been constipated once. Is that close?

A constable is the only LEO that can arrest a governor

Years ago, one used to sit and watch the street races off of Meacham. Never did anything, just watched. The one in town here is a one man police force, if anything is going down anywhere you can bet he is first in line. Just never really knew what his official duties were.

That is a popular belief since most arrests of a Governor would come from a court proceeding in which the constable would be carrying out the court order, but that is a myth that they are the only ones allowed to arrest a Governor.

The cops around here are pretty honest. I wouldn't live in a big city. Ew.