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17 Jun 2015, 11:06 am
Austin American Statesman Investigation The Austin American Statesman has been investigating the situation here in Texas for many months now, trying to gain access to Brady Lists via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 4:52 am
The phenomenon of campus-based police departments is something that's really only arisen en masse in the last 20 or so years in Texas public schools.Attorney Don Dickson once commented on this blog that when he was growing up, his elementary school had a dietician but no cops, while he learned through an experience with an obese 13-year old client that today's schools have cops but no nutritionists. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:51 am
Also check out a recent letter from social workers to the Austin City Council supporting a shift in responsibility from the policing profession to theirs. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 10:51 am
” Things are done in the Dallas Police Department to combat the problem. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 10:50 am
Got it.Perhaps removing the 911 call center from control of the police department (as Houston has already done, btw) will help impose more discipline on how officers spend their time. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 4:53 am
They're not active, and it’s not something that the police department is pursuing,“ she says. [read post]
16 Nov 2019, 11:09 am
Advocates have requested that the Austin inquiry also include searches of departmental emails, text messages over department-issued phones, and any instant-messaging systems used internally by officers at APD. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 7:09 am
Municipal police departments operated 20% of academies, sheriffs’ offices operated 10%, and state police or highway patrol agencies operated 6%. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 12:19 pm
Similar lopsided majorities feel that police departments should reform their use-of-force practices, and that non-police ("other types of workers") should be responding to "community issues such as mental health and homelessness. [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 5:31 am
and Austin's new police chief. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 7:12 am
" Former CLEAT mugwump and long-time police-union leader Ron DeLord, who was lead negotiator for the Austin Police Association on the contract, complained on Twitter that Barajas didn't talk to him. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 1:08 pm
Let's clear a few browser tabs with a roundup of odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention:Austin city council ready for its close up on police reformFirst, on Thursday, the Austin City Council will hear 5 #cjreform resolutions including a directive to strengthen Austin PD's use of force policy and another calling for a reduction in the police department's budget. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 1:40 pm
The city's enforcement effort targets four city areas with a high number of pedestrian crashes -- River North, Austin, Wrigleyville, and 79th Street (Ashland to the Dan Ryan). [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 1:40 pm
The city's enforcement effort targets four city areas with a high number of pedestrian crashes -- River North, Austin, Wrigleyville, and 79th Street (Ashland to the Dan Ryan). [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 8:04 am
In a local story from the Valley about a change of leadership at the police union in the McAllen police department ("Police officers union to move forward under new leadership," Jan. 7), I was interested to see a reference to the union's losses in their recent contract negotiations. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 3:56 am
A commenter on the last Grits post suggested that a key reason the number of traffic tickets written by Texas police went down last year in Austin and elsewhere may have been cuts to the "Selective Traffic Enforcement Program" (STEP), which are federal pass-through grants distributed to law enforcement through the Texas Department of Transportation to pay for overtime devoted to traffic enforcement. [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 9:49 am
In Austin, for example, 37% of all arrestees entering jail are there on charges for which they could have received a citation. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 4:00 pm
The University of Texas at Austin Police Department posted some photographs of interesting and creative equipment used by thieves in stealing ATM information.http://www.utexas.edu/police/alerts/atm_scamThe organized criminals install the equipment on legitimate bank ATMs. [read post]
15 Apr 2015, 11:34 am
Now that smart phones are capturing police all over the place abusing their police power, bad cops are being caught and police departments are taking action. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 8:38 am
At a Austin City Council's Public Safety Committee meeting yesterday discussing 911 call data, the Police Department's Chief Data Officer, Jonathan Kringen, reiterated an observation that Grits has made several times over the years: "this data system is built to try to manage an activity. [read post]
