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17 Sep 2016, 1:34 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Now it's just when, where and why the device is used that they're hiding; the how is out there.Debate: How best to manage police departments? [read post]
28 May 2022, 2:25 pm by Michael Ehline
But there are other possible ways the parents could sue the Uvalde Police Department, discussed below. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 7:31 am by Steve Hall
About two weeks ago, cold case investigators from the Austin Police Department began re-interviewing Baker's relatives based on a tip from Morton's lawyers with the Innocence Project of New York. [read post]
2 Jan 2021, 7:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Training division’s practices and culture are driving highly qualified candidates to leave the academy, depriving Austin of the diverse, community-driven police force that City leaders and residents envision.Nationally, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, only 23 percent of training academies have curricula which is all or mostly stress-based, as is clearly the case in Austin. [read post]
29 Mar 2020, 10:15 pm by Texas Legal News
., on March 29, the Austin Police Department responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident in the 5200 block of Farm to Market Road 973. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 7:27 am by brooks
Unfortunately, a perfect example of this risk is a May 29 wreck between Austin Police Department officer Damon Dunn and motorcyclist Louis Olivier. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 8:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In 1997 I launched a now-defunct site called the Austin Police Department Hall of Shame, which documented sustained misconduct and questionable use-of-force incidents by Austin police officers, expanding the work statewide in 2000 into a site called the Texas Police Reform Center. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 9:02 pm
The article quotes almost exclusively police sources, including one bizarre claim that's blatantly, patently false: "The word 'snitch' gives [police] pause”, writes Sanders, "'The only people who call it 'snitching' are crooks talking to crooks,' said former Homicide Commander Harold Piatt with the Austin Police Department, who is now retired. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 8:54 am by Heather Mac Donald
In 2012, the Justice Department imposed on the New Orleans Police Department the most expansive consent decree in the nation to rein in the alleged unconstitutional behavior of its officers, the majority of whom are black. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 5:40 am
The article quotes almost exclusively police sources, including one bizarre claim that's blatantly, patently false: "The word 'snitch' gives [police] pause, writes Sanders, "'The only people who call it 'snitching' are crooks talking to crooks,' said former Homicide Commander Harold Piatt with the Austin Police Department, who is now retired. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 11:07 am by AWoog
Uses data submitted by law enforcement agencies participating in the White House’s Police Data Initiative to make available datasets on officer-involved shootings and other police activity. 27 agencies are currently participating, including the Austin and Dallas Police Departments. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 10:11 am by Steve Hall
I've covered Austin police since 2002 — Ablanedo has remained legendary in the department — and I'd written about his death for years. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 7:10 pm
A low-speed bus accident in Chicago's Austin neighborhood (West Side of Chicago) has sent 23 people to the hospital. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few news items related to police misconduct that caught Grits' attention recently:Sheriff's Captain acquitted of property room theft, convicted on other gun chargesA former Cleveland Police Department officer and Liberty County Sheriff's Office captain was convicted and sentenced to a year in federal prison for, among other things, using his law enforcement credentials to purchase restricted equipment for a third-party buyer. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 10:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So situations have arisen where prosecutors are held responsible for failing to turn over impeachment evidence which was in possession of the police department but concealed from them by statute. [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]
11 Nov 2015, 3:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Nice to see the mainstream media pick up on the work of one of Grits' fabulous new contributing writers, Amanda Woog, whose new Database of Officer Involved Shooting Incidents at the UT Austin Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis documented lapses in reporting by the Texas Department of Public Safety and other agencies. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 12:05 pm by Kalvis Golde
Austin 23-717Issues: (1) Whether a Religious Freedom Restoration Act challenge to the Department of Defense’s failure to accommodate military chaplains’ religious objections to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate was and remains justiciable after Congress directed the Department to rescind the mandate; and (2) whether a challenge to the Department’s coercing chaplains to speak its message about the COVID-19 vaccine survives as capable of… [read post]