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24 Aug 2016, 12:45 pm
It has been a long time since this writer held out hope for real change at Austin's police department. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 10:26 pm
Austin defense lawyer Kiele Linroth Pace posts about an American Statesman article out today, “Some Austin police buying suspension insurance”: Several Austin police officers, fearful that a misstep on the street will result in an unpaid suspension, demotion or firing, have begun taking out insurance policies to protect themselves from a potential monetary hit. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 12:05 pm
Their activities contribute little to public safety and have been a major source of scandal, of which Gerald Goines is only the most prominent example.2018 Police Shootings in Austin AnalyzedIn Austin, the Office of Police Oversight has produced an analysis of all Officer Involved Shootings at Austin PD in 2018: 12 incidents involving 11 suspects and 33 officers, 5 of them fatal. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:23 pm
One of the cops had previously been accused of police brutality in a high-profile incident, but that time his department defended him. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 1:56 pm
Andrew Ingram (Department of Philosophy UT Austin) has posted Breaking Laws to Fix Broken Windows: A Revisionist Take on Order Maintenance Policing (Berkeley Criminal Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2014). [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 6:55 am
Local News Update: According to KXAN.com, “[t]he Austin Police Department said [the victim] was Jocson Antonio Zelaya Blanco, 23. [read post]
30 Aug 2020, 8:20 am
Just before 9:10 p.m., on August 29, the Austin Police Department responded to the scene of a crash on South US Highway 183. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 12:17 am
Kudos to new Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg for altering her department's longstanding policy of making defense lawyers copy police offense reports by hand instead of giving paper or electronic access. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 10:48 am
The one bright spot is that the Austin Police Department has been able to arrest more than fifty percent of those that fled the scene in fatal accidents. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 3:51 am
., on November 13, the San Antonio Police Department responded to the scene of a crash on Austin Highway. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 2:28 pm
For the past year, Austin has deployed a group of community folks and city staff to analyze the curriculum at the police academy and suggest reforms: It's not going well.The community reviews material, makes recommendations, but little gets implemented. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 4:31 am
Austin Police Chief Bryan Manley apologized if rape victims felt he had blamed them in his department's coverup surrounding inflated sexual-assault clearance rates, but insisted he had never done so. [read post]
27 Sep 2020, 8:12 am
In recent coverage of the Dallas City Council's budget vote, the Texas Tribune demonstrated that it's actually possible to describe the cuts accurately:The movement gained traction in Austin, where city councilmembers in August voted to immediately cut about $20 million, or 5%, from its police department and redirect those funds to things like violence prevention, housing and mental health services. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 1:28 pm
"Muscadin recommended the department reverse this policy and go back to the old one and Grits couldn't agree more. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 9:44 am
A buddy of mine asked the Austin Police Department for information on the number of marijuana arrests and citations over the last few years (the departments says it cannot disaggregate them) broken out by race. [read post]
3 Aug 2009, 4:17 pm
I sent an open records request just now to Austin Police Department to find out the costs to taxpayers for this: In an undercover prostitution-reversal sting, the Austin Police Department Central Metro Tactical Unit arrested 23 males, all varying in age. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 8:43 am
Reports Austin's KXAN-TV:An Austin high school geography teacher has been arrested and charged with having marijuana and paraphernalia at his home, which is located within 1,000 feet of an elementary school.Police had a search warrant for Ian Kristofer Grayson's single-family residence in the 6000 block of Leisure Run Road, located near Odom Elementary School.Grayson, 34, has been a teacher at Austin High School since 2009, and from 2006 to 2009 he taught… [read post]
13 May 2020, 4:50 pm
At around 3 p.m., on May 8, the Austin Police Department and emergency crews responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident in the 12300 block of Metric Boulevard. [read post]
9 May 2020, 9:47 am
At around 3 p.m., on May 8, the Austin Police Department and emergency crews responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident in the 12300 block of Metric Boulevard. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 7:37 am
Since the Austin PD makes up so much of the city's budget and is driving cost increases and service cuts, you'd think the City Council and the Austin Police Department would welcome new authority from the Legislature to save money by giving citations instead of arresting for low-level misdemeanors.Indeed, especially given high gasoline costs and a limited number of officers, one of the best ways to save money and maximize public safety resources is to… [read post]
