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15 Oct 2020, 4:17 am by Texas Legal News
On October 13, the Austin Police Department responded to the scene of an accident on East Parmer Lane. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:01 am by Texas Legal News
On October 11, the Austin-Travis County EMS assisted the police and the Texas Department of Public Safety at the scene of a crash on Interstate 35. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 10:21 am by Texas Legal News
Just after 5 p.m., on October 6, the Austin Police Department and the Austin-Travis EMS responded to the scene of an accident on East Stassney Lane. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 7:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Abbott applied to Austin for Mayor Price to backpedal from a partisan interpretation.To be clear, it was always a pile of horse hockey to blame crime trends on partisan affiliation, or for that matter Austin's modest budget cut to the police department. [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 1:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
See Part 1 and Part 2.Mental-Health First ResponseIn Austin, Dallas, and elsewhere across the country, one of the approaches to displacing police from non-law-enforcement tasks has been mental-health first response, where many clients do not ask for a law-enforcement presence and end up in involuntary detention, more often than not, because police don't know what else to do with them. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 2:03 pm by [email protected]
Hypnosis has been used as a forensic tool by police departments and intelligence agencies since the 1940s, The Guardian reported. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 10:00 pm by Texas Legal News
Just after 10:30 p.m., on September 29, the Austin Police Department responded to the scene of an auto accident on Sabine Street. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 11:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Austin's oversight board, along with the Office of Police Oversight (essentially a Police Monitor-Board model), at least has become a window into policing problems we've never had before. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 1:34 pm by Joanna Herzik
The attorney filed a report with the police department. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 10:51 am by John Floyd
  And, as if allegations are not troubling enough, Sheriff Chody’s has come under intense media scrutiny for hiring deputies “with tarnished badges”—those forced to resign from other police departments before being fired for misconduct. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 10:02 pm by Texas Legal News
., the Austin Police Department responded to the scene of a crash on North Texas State Highway 130. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 9:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And even in Austin, what really happened is a process was created that will take years to fully implement.So yes, by all means, fight for police reform. [read post]
27 Sep 2020, 8:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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 Sep 2020, 10:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
22 Sep 2020, 8:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
20 Sep 2020, 1:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Sheriffs were in charge of that process.After the Civil War, municipal police departments (then called City Marshals) began undertaking their own patrols, starting in Austin and Houston. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 7:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(That would be the police union.)Still, that Renee Hall is gone in Dallas and Chief Manley - a much more energetic reform opponent - remains in charge of the Austin Police Department speaks to the unpredictable nature of protest movements. [read post]