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26 May 2011, 7:15 am
The Austin Police Department is trying something a little new to reduce the number of injuries that Austinites suffer in car wrecks. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 5:45 am
A jury in state court awarded $240,000 to a detective with the Austin, Texas Police Department. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 9:00 am
Julie O’Brien, Commander of the Austin Police Department’s Professional Standards Division, stated she prefers to address conflict through the mediation process. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 8:07 am
As the City of Austin and the Austin Police Department have cracked down on drivers who were unsafely texting in cars, Austin Police Department officers have continued to face driving distractions inside their own vehicles — primarily their on-board mobile computers. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 5:40 am
The City of Austin is looking at budget cuts to public safety items, the Austin Statesman reports, including a proposed $4.7 million slashed from the police department. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 7:23 pm
Austin DWI Bars for 2010 In keeping with tradition, the Austin Police Department released its annual ranking list of bars where DWI arrestees had their last drink. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 2:12 am
After Austin police claimed 2,000 people stood around watching as a man was beaten to death at a Juneteenth festival, their PR department adjusted their story this week to say just a few people were present and the incident happened blocks away from the festival in a housing project.The story immediately drew international coverage; the headline in Mexico City's La Reforma had declared, "Hispanic is Lynched in Texas. [read post]
26 May 2011, 7:30 pm
Once again, the Austin Police Department raised the ante on drunk drivers by initiating TWO no refusal nights over this Mardi Gras week. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 5:32 am
It's already been a bad public relations week for the Austin Police Department - on Friday the Justice Department announced it would investigate the department's use of force policies, then over the weekend an officer with a history of disciplinary actions shot a fleeing suspect. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 3:23 am
In the comments to that post, an alert reader pointed to this page on the Austin Police Department website that claims, "Leaving your key in an unattended motor vehicle is a crime in Texas" (#7). [read post]
21 Jul 2018, 6:20 am
A report issued in June concluded that, "Citizen oversight did not create substantive change within the Austin Police Department, largely due to the effects of City procedures and police department practices. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 6:23 am
Clearance rates by the Austin Police Department for burglaries have radically declined in recent years - from 9% in 2000 to 5% in 2009 - and remain far below the national average clearance rate for burglaries of 13%, according to materials (pdf) presented last month to the Austin Public Safety Commission.Perhaps as a consequence, the burglary rate in Austin per 100,000 residents increased over the same period from 1,048 to 1,138, making it among the most… [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 6:12 pm
Among those cities, Austin has the highest rate of people killed by police per population. [read post]
23 Jan 2022, 12:18 pm
Over the last couple of decades, this blog has documented efforts to reduce those deaths via policy tweaks and new technology.But in the 1950s, Austin police took an even more drastic step to reduce police-vehicle accidents: Grits was today years old when I learned that, in the 1950s, the Austin Police Department removed lights and sirens from its police cars to encourage better driving by its officers. [read post]
8 May 2009, 10:14 am
Austin police Lt. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 7:14 am
Kevin Foster, a Black Studies professor from UT-Austin, offered up some more-widely-known-than-acknowledged history about the origins of the Austin Police Department while testifying on behalf on Grassroots Leadership.In the 1860s, when Texas was an exceedingly dangerous place for African Americans, Austin happened to be less so. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 3:30 pm
AUSTIN, TX — One man was killed in a three-vehicle accident that happened in Austin, Texas on Sunday, August 24th, 2014, according to the official news release from the Austin Police Department. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 7:46 am
The debate in the Austin Statesman today over why the Austin Police Department's costs rose more than other PDs in the last decade strikes me as utterly disingenuous. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 12:57 pm
Some of the functions being moved out of the police department will also make a big difference. [read post]
18 May 2016, 8:32 am
In 1997, your correspondent launched a now-defunct website, all hand-coded in html, titled the "Austin Police Department Hall of Shame. [read post]
