I’ve been wondering the same lately and initially attributed the high-volume of stories of police problems in Texas to the size of the state vs others. That may be part of it but I think the other factor is that a lot of Texas prisons are run by private for profit corporations, which may sound good in theory but is anything but. There was one Texas town about 10 years ago where the police were in cahoots with the private prison to keep the prison full so they could get as much state/fed funding (profit) as possible. They were locking up innocent citizens (mainly ‘poor’ people w/o the wherewithal to pay for a good atty), accusing them of (planted) drug possession.
A private prison getting fed funding. OK.