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21 Sep 2019, 7:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Alternative to police response for mental health, homelessness, substance abuseRegular readers know that Austin recently funded a new program to have medical personnel respond to some mental-health calls instead of police. [read post]
9 Aug 2009, 1:36 am
Oliver Tate with the Police Department's auto theft interdiction unit. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 1:33 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
He lately seems more worried about placating the Greater Austin Crime Commission than actually reforming the police department. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 12:14 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Donegan that I believe she has made great strides with the Austin Police Department's Sex Crimes Unit.But what Eveleth said to Sgt. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 9:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits' post on the recently released report analyzing racism allegations at Austin PD deserves a followup. [read post]
21 Apr 2007, 5:58 am
SB 823 by Whitmire/Riddle would give the state's six largest police departments - Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso - authority to operate pen registers and cell-phone wiretapping equipment. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 8:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Enjoy:Kent Whitaker, father and only surviving victim of death-row inmate scheduled for execution February 2018 pleads for his son's life.Ron DeLord, founder of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas and lead negotiator on the Austin police union contract.Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the national Innocence Project, discussing prospects and barriers to forensic reform.Brandi Grissom, former Austin bureau chief at the Dallas Morning News on the Texas… [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 8:45 am
Austin fire Department responded to the blaze and thought the truck fire with an estimated 20 trucks and 75 firefighters. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 10:42 am by Jon Brodkin
The Austin Transportation Department started examining their own meters after being "notified of a QR code scam by the City of San Antonio in late December—when more than 100 pay stations were stickered with fraudulent codes," Fox 7 Austin reported last week. [read post]
26 Jan 2014, 11:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And like most departments, Austin treats alarm calls as a low priority — responders use no lights or sirens, and travel at the speed limit. [read post]
14 Dec 2021, 9:58 am by Irene
Other cities that drastically cut police funding include Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, Baltimore, Portland, Salt Lake City and Philadelphia. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:02 pm by Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The story opened:The number of documented gang members in Austin has increased about 36 percent since 2010, and law enforcement officials say they are concerned about the connection to Mexican drug cartels.At a meeting Monday of the Austin Public Safety Commission, police Cmdr. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 7:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The agency is rapidly earning a reputation for promoting false, self-interested information, not just to the press and the public but in this case, to the courts.Bipartisan support for push to change response to 911 mental-health callsWhen the the Austin Justice Coalition last year succeeded in convincing the Austin city council to vote against the union contract with the Austin Police Association, it freed up millions of dollars that can now be used to promote… [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 1:31 am by Dr. Shezad Malik
The lawsuit, however, claims that the police department "refused to give the woman a forensic sexual assault examination," and performed an inadequate investigation. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 5:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Austin PD crime lab may be getting more scrutiny from the Forensic Science Commission, reports Patrick George at the Austin Statesman, this time based on a rare complaint from another lab which is challenging APD's drug testing results:Another complaint has been filed against the Austin Police Department's crime lab, this time by an independent lab in North Texas that claims it received different results than the Austin lab when … [read post]