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When I wrote it, I meant not reported in the media.

Misdemeanors like UCW are not in the UCR. The UCR includes only violent crime and felony theft.

There is no way to know how many people who were innocently carrying handguns in their vehicles were arrested for UCW. Even if you did an open records request for information, it probably would not include the exact details leading up to the arrest.

- Jim

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UCW is a misdemeanor, and various Harris County LEOs arrest for it three to five thousand times a year. It generally is not reported. We have no idea how many people were persecuted this way.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that of the ten million or so people who are arrested each year in the U.S., everyone, including their defense attorneys, assumes that they are guilty. Nevertheless, from time to time, a situation is discovered like the one in Tulia several years ago, where dozens to hundreds of false arrests are made on the basis of intentionally falsified evidence. Don't even get me started about San Diego and Los Angeles.

- Jim

How quickly y'all forget. People were arrested in Harris County, and in some cases they had to go to court to get their weapons returned. The TSRA and Texas ACLU wrote a report on it, which helped contribute to the passage of the MPA in 2007:

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I will take this opportunity to once again mount my soapbox to point out that when the police want to arrest you, they will arrest you regardless of the law; and they will be backed by the full force of the police, city, and county legal systems. You will be up a creek without a paddle.

- Jim