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10 Feb 2009, 5:41 pm
Austin's police chief Art Acevedo, has a plan to expand DNA testing to everyone suspected of a crime. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 12:19 pm by brooks
   Austin police chief Art Acevedo is among those supporting a new crime of  “driving while ability impaired,” which would make it a crime to drive with a blood alcohol level between 0.05 and 0.07. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 5:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And Acevedo declared the department would roll out a new body-camera policy in the coming weeks. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 1:07 pm by Neal Davis
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told the Houston Chronicle that HPD arrested 3,862 people for driving while intoxicated from January through June this year. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 11:19 pm
While Austin police chief Art Acevedo has been downplaying a new report on APD use of force by the US Department of Justice, the 50 page document (pdf) identifies many shortcomings in both the department's use of force policies and its systems for supervisory review. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:47 pm by [email protected]
A few weeks later, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he intends to restrict the department’s use of these raids, reported Texas Monthly. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:47 pm by [email protected]
A few weeks later, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he intends to restrict the department’s use of these raids, reported Texas Monthly. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reacting to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo's call for a new DWI-lite charge in Texas' statutes, Reason magazine's Radley Balko makes the case for eliminating DWI laws based on blood alcohol content and focusing on impaired driving of all types. [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 11:28 pm
It's interesting to learn that the percentage of sustained complaints against police officers has gone up under Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, but there's something a bit squirrelly about attributing the increase to a new policy having supervisors investigate low-level complaints instead of Internal Affairs.APD told the Statesman shifting to supervisor investigations "has resulted in a higher percentage of officers getting disciplined and has reduced the number of… [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 6:20 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Officials said they have been monitoring air quality and have not picked up any hazards.Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said that one employee is unaccounted for. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 10:01 am by Neal Davis
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo sounds eager to make quick arrests in domestic violence cases, even with little evidence other than officers noting which person “appears to be the aggressor” when they arrive at the scene of a domestic abuse call. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 3:15 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
UPDATE (9/22): I fowarded this post to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo and, after a brief back and forth via email, this morning he writes to say the department has canceled today's planned "Operation Wardrive. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 8:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Austin police chief Art Acevedo accused the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas (CLEAT), the state's largest collection of police unions, of lying about him when they said the department created a position for former CLEAT organizer (and past Austin Police Association President) Mike Sheffield, who was hired out of retirement for a coveted, senior position ahead of qualified, active officers. [read post]
12 May 2009, 9:50 am
  If you're a police officer, you - unlike every else - won't get a traffic citation:Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo responded with a powerful statement: "It is a concern. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 1:40 pm by Neal Davis
Veteran Houston criminal defense lawyer Neal Davis, along with Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, are questioning the tactics of narcotics officer Gerald Goines after it was discovered the officer lied on a search warrant, which led to a deadly drug raid in January. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 3:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
After Grits' recent post about Austin PD's ill-conceived "wardriving" strategy to seek out and map open wifi connections - which was shut down by APD Chief Art Acevedo - I learned that the detective in charge of the department's Digital Analysis Response Team (DART) is the president of the Austin High Tech Crime Investigators Association, which will hold a two-day training late next month. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 8:59 am by brooks
As part of his efforts to adopt more strict DWI laws, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has been routinely claiming that Texas leads the nation in drunk driving fatalities. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 10:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
What a breathtaking mess the managers of Austin PD's now-closed DNA lab finds themselves in, and how fortunate for former Chief Art Acevedo that he picked up a new gig in Houston before all the details of the story came out. [read post]