Editing Waller County, Texas (section)

===Law enforcement===
{{As of|2021}} the current sheriff is Troy Guidry, who was elected in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=HOME|url=http://www.wallercountytexassheriff.org/|access-date=December 12, 2021|website=www.wallercountytexassheriff.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lewis|first=Brooke A.|date=October 23, 2020|title=Waller County voters to elect first new sheriff since 2008|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Waller-County-voters-to-elect-first-new-sheriff-15669198.php|access-date=December 12, 2021|website=Houston Chronicle|language=en-US}}</ref> The previous sheriff was Glenn Smith, who had been sheriff since 2008. Smith was previously chief of the police department of [[Hempstead, Texas|Hempstead]], where he had been fired by the town council 
after allegations that he and four white officers had exhibited racism and [[police brutality]] during the arrest of a 35-year-old black man.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foxhall|first1=Emily|title=Waller County sheriff seeks 3rd term after difficult year|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Waller-County-sheriff-seeks-3rd-term-after-6854984.php|accessdate=March 3, 2017|publisher=Houston Chronicle}}</ref>

In November 2021, a 16 year old was charged with six counts of aggravated assault for crashing into six people on bicycles while attempting to [[rolling coal|roll coal]]. All four of the riders were hospitalized for their injuries, two of them being airlifted.<ref name="wp">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/09/texas-teen-driver-bicyclists-truck-charges/|title=Teen who hit 6 bicyclists with truck while allegedly harassing them faces felony charges, authorities say|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name="bicycling">{{cite web|url=https://www.bicycling.com/news/a37808647/texas-driver-assaults-six-cyclists/|title=16-Year-Old Texas Truck Driver Who Hit Six Cyclists Charged With Felonies|date=November 9, 2021}}</ref> According to attorneys hired by the injured, the injuries included "broken vertebrae, cervical and lumbar spinal injuries, broken collar bones, hands, and wrists [requiring surgical intervention], multiple traumatic brain injuries, lacerations, soft tissue damage, road rash, and extensive bruising"<ref name="bikelaw">{{cite web|url=https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/10/waller-bike-crash/|title=Coal-rolling Texas truck driver plows into 6 cyclists|date=October 2, 2021 }}</ref> The Waller county district attorney, Elton Mathis, released a statement about the handling of the case by the Waller Police Department in which he said "This case was not handled appropriately by the investigating agency.   PERIOD."  According to his statement, the [[Texas Department of Public Safety]] urged the local police to treat the scene as a crime scene, and to contact the district attorney's office. Despite this, the local police released the 16 year old without doing an investigation.<ref name="wp" /><ref name="bicycling" />