Deputy city manager presents 2024 police contact report; department reports most stops result in warnings

Keith Moore, deputy city manager, presented the Glenn Heights Police Department's 2024 annual contact report (formerly called the racial-profiling report) at the March 18 meeting.

Moore told the council that 74.5% of contacts resulted in a warning and that moving-violation stops (speeding) were the most-cited reason for traffic stops. Moore attributed a roughly 26% increase in stops from 2023 to 2024 in part to the deployment of portable radar units that helped staff target locations and times for enforcement: "We positioned those periodically throughout the city... and the police department was able to determine locations and time to run special traffic enforcement," Moore said.

Moore reviewed the statutory data points the department collects: gender, race or ethnicity, whether race or ethnicity was known before the stop, reason and location of the stop, whether a search was conducted, whether contraband was found and the disposition of the stop. He noted changes in local case intake practices (for example, how confiscated marijuana is coded when the county will not accept misdemeanor marijuana charges).

Council members asked follow-up questions about whether the department can report the city of residence for stopped motorists and about safety policy for traffic stops. Moore said address data are imperfect because not all motorists update license addresses and that verbal warnings do not always generate completed contact data. On safety, he noted dispatch and supervisory oversight, and said recent upgrades to body-worn cameras allow live feed review by dispatch and supervisors, providing an additional layer of oversight during stops.

The presentation did not propose policy changes; it was an informational report the department is required to file by state law.