Full Patrol Kit available in Texas
Texas criminal and traffic statutes, the decisions that interpret them, and field guides that walk the call. Built from published state sources and stored on your phone, so it works with no signal. Covers Penal Code and Transportation Code.
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App screens show New Jersey. Every state pack uses the same layout.
Counts reflect the current Texas content pack and change with each release.
No law-review language. Each entry tells you what the law requires, what to charge and what to do first.
Penal Code and Transportation Code, with the grade, the elements to prove and a note on what to do first.
Type “suspended” or “road rage” and get the right section. No statute numbers to memorize.
Step-by-step walkthroughs for the calls that go sideways, with the legal basis at each step.
Texas decisions and the U.S. Supreme Court cases that decide your stops, in plain English with the citation.
U.S. Supreme Court decisions set the minimum for every stop, search and arrest. Texas’s legislature and courts can add stricter rules, and the answer on the street depends on both. The Texas pack keeps the state’s own statutes and decisions next to the federal cases, and our blog breaks down both, state by state.
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals · 2013
A stop is judged on what you actually saw or knew when you made it, not on a violation the dash-cam later shows but you never noticed. Duran's DWI suppression was reinstated because the trial judge found the officer most probably never saw the brief center-stripe drift, and the Court of Criminal Appeals deferred to that finding.
PD-0771-12 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013)
Find the opinion for State v. DuranTexas Court of Criminal Appeals · 2018
'I pat everybody down' doesn't justify a frisk, but it doesn't sink one if objective facts would make a reasonable officer fear for safety: alone at night, outnumbered, a passenger reaching into his pockets and between the seats, and an admitted knife. Questioning the passenger before running the driver's warrant check did not unduly prolong this diligent nine-minute stop.
543 S.W.3d 184 (Tex. Crim. App. 2018)
Find the opinion for Lerma v. StateEach summary was checked against the court’s majority opinion on September 30, 2026. Read the decision and follow your agency’s policy; this is reference guidance, not legal advice.
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Scan a temporary tag and check it against the issuing state’s reference. The app shows what it found and the state’s own details. You make the call. Free for verified law enforcement, with or without a subscription.
Task force, bi-state agency or a beat near the border: every state has its own page, and the Federal Kit travels with you.
Full Patrol Kit $24.99/yr · Patrol Essentials $9.99/yr · Lifetime $69.99 once, limited per state. 7-day free trial for new subscribers.
Yes. The Texas pack covers Penal Code and Transportation Code, with case law, field guides and quick cards, and it is stored on your phone, so it works with no signal. Updates download in the background the next time you have service.
The current Texas content pack has 1,093 statutes, 96 case-law entries, 114 field guides and 81 quick cards. Counts change with each release.
Only after a lawful arrest. Penal Code § 38.02(a) makes it an offense to intentionally refuse to give name, residence address, or date of birth to a peace officer “who has lawfully arrested the person and requested the information.” For a person who is only detained, § 38.02(b) is violated by giving a “false or fictitious” name, residence address or date of birth, not by staying silent. Full breakdown.
Yes. Under Transportation Code § 521.025(a), a person required to hold a license must have it while operating a motor vehicle and “display the license on the demand of a magistrate, court officer, or peace officer.” Subsection (b) lets a peace officer stop and detain an operator to determine whether the person has a license.
Patrol Essentials is $9.99 a year and the Full Patrol Kit is $24.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. The Lifetime Kit is $69.99 one time, where available (limited per state). It covers your selected state’s kit in the StreetSense mobile app for iOS and Android, with the content updates and new features added to the app over time. It does not unlock every state; the Lifetime All-States Kit is a separate add-on for Lifetime Kit holders. Products offered separately, such as companion apps, device integrations and agency services, are not included. See pricing and the Terms of Use, Sections 5.5 and 5.6.
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No. StreetSense is an educational reference. Federal decisions set the floor, and your state and department policy can be stricter. Follow your agency’s policy and your prosecutor’s guidance.
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