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16 Jun 2020, 8:40 am by William Ford, Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Chief Art Acevedo, the chief of police for the city of Houston. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:23 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Very glad to see this published, this case received far too little attention when it happened.When the shine wears offHouston Police Chief Art Acevedo has been selling himself in the national press as a progressive reformer. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 7:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Manley was chief of staff to former Chief Art Acevedo before being elevated to chief, so the City Manager is being told he could only be demoted to chief of staff, not fired. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 4:38 am by SHG
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo condemned the killing of George Floyd. [read post]
28 May 2020, 4:17 am by SHG
Floyd is deeply disturbing and should be of concern to all Americans,” said the Major Cities Chiefs, headed by Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo. [read post]
19 May 2020, 2:29 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
According to the Tatum report, Chief Manley, when he was chief of staff to Art Acevedo, intervened to stop more aggressive oversight of the DNA division, which soon thereafter was closed and essentially put into receivership. [read post]
5 May 2020, 1:26 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" But it happened because Manley failed to act.Blaming rape victims when APD was caught fudging sex-assault statsWhile Manley was chief of staff under Art Acevedo, the department removed the head of the Sex Crimes Unit because she refused to change case files to claim detectives had closed the cases when they had not. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Taylor, who had been on the force for five years was involved in another questionable shooting at a downtown Austin condo in 2019.Notably, former Chief Art Acevedo had forbidden officers from shooting at moving vehicles in 2012 unless they were part of a unit specially trained to stop vehicles. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 11:00 am by Mathew Reisig
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters that aggravated assaults were up 10% in the last two weeks of March and first week of April, largely fueled by disputes between family members in the home. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 10:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Although Donegan was removed from her Sex Crimes post during Chief Art Acevedo's tenure, current Chief Bryan Manley earned ownership of the topic by blaming data errors on victims when the story came out. [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]
5 Nov 2019, 10:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Between the Freedom Cities ordinance restricting Class C arrests, beginning in January, and the elimination in June of the local no-sit-no-lie ordinance aimed at the homeless, those bookings should decline significantly for 2019.Post-raid HPD reforms don't address faked informant that got 4 officers shot and killed 2 innocent peopleAfter a no-knock drug raid in Houston this spring killed two innocent people and left four officers shot, HPD Chief Art Acevedo has… [read post]
26 Oct 2019, 7:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Paxton's brief rehashes Houston Chief Art Acevedo's red herring arguments about the Brandon Bell case, engaging in the Willie-Horton-type tactics Judge Rosenthal already rejected from the bail bondsmen and the DA's office. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:31 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's this month's episode:In this episode:Top StoriesHarris and Galveston County bail litigation - 1:40HPD Chief Art Acevedo demagogues on bail reform - 10:30Interview: Attorney Scott Medlock on TDCJ Hep C lawsuit - 14:45Fill in the BlankTPPF on police union politics - 27:45Crime debates in Houston mayor's race - 32:45The Last Hurrah (37:25)DPS stops patrols in DallasDo Dallas police murder indictments signal changing attitudes? [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 6:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Police chiefs in Harris County continue to attack bail reform - most recently Houston police chief Art Acevedo - but the examples given never seem to bear out their complaints. [read post]
15 Sep 2019, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 In Austin, where Houston chief Art Acevedo was posted before becoming chief in H-Town, civilian duties were widely neglected in favor of hiring more officers. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 7:51 am by Immigration Prof
Chief Art Acevedo vented about the lack of human decency and “Nazis” enforcing laws following... [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]
19 Feb 2019, 5:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The no-knock warrants are going to go away like leaded gasoline in this city," declared Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at a town hall meeting after police killed two people (along with two dogs) and four officers were shot while serving a search warrant, reported the Houston Chronicle.The chief said he no longer "sees the value" in such raids, which were criticized earlier this month in a Texas Monthly story. [read post]