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26 Apr 2019, 12:46 am
Dallas is not alone; police departments all across North Texas have active bait car programs. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 6:42 am
" The analysis relies on the new racial profiling reports which came out March 1st, analyzing information for Texas police departments in cities with more than 50,000 people, and sheriffs in counties with more than 100,000. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 3:57 pm
Fighting for police accountability via their union contractChas Moore and Sukyi McMahon from the Austin Justice Coalition had an op ed in the New York Times about their group's fight to reform the local police-union contract and improve civilian oversight of the Austin Police Department. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 7:47 am
After The Atlantic and the Austin Chronicle picked up on the data Grits first crunched in this blog post regarding use of force and Class C arrests at Texas traffic stops, the Austin Police Department issued a correction regarding its reported use-of-force data in the department's most recent, annual racial profiling report.New reporting on use of force was mandated by the Legislature as part of the 2017 Sandra Bland Act, which required… [read post]
30 Mar 2019, 8:46 am
*Proportion of traffic stops at which Austin police officers used force against a driver in 2018: 77.2 per 10,000 stops. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 1:00 pm
AI-generated algorithms are already in use, and some, such as a New York Police Department algorithm designed to track and tag people as possible gang members may suffer from a racial bias, according to Kosa, who noted that 99 percent of the people logged into the database were people of color. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 1:00 pm
AI-generated algorithms are already in use, and some, such as a New York Police Department algorithm designed to track and tag people as possible gang members may suffer from a racial bias, according to Kosa, who noted that 99 percent of the people logged into the database were people of color. [read post]
9 Mar 2019, 9:27 am
Austin police are more likely to use injury-causing force against drivers they pull over than any other large Texas jurisdiction, according to new "racial profiling" data reports out this month from law-enforcement agencies around the state. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 2:46 pm
After all, the Timbs Opinion acknowledges its earlier ruling in Austin v. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 1:13 am
Raleigh police said scooters were involved in 31 crashes from July through December 2018. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 4:31 am
Austin Police Chief Bryan Manley apologized if rape victims felt he had blamed them in his department's coverup surrounding inflated sexual-assault clearance rates, but insisted he had never done so. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 1:00 am
You can always call the non-emergency number for your local police department to discuss your options, or ask a friend to do it for you. [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 4:54 am
Bizarrely, Austin Police Chief Bryan Manley is scheduled to speak to the Major Cities Police Chiefs' Association in Washington D.C. this week to share "hard lessons he's learned" about how police categorize sexual assault cases.He's not ready. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:19 am
Last night, the Austin City Council voted to have a third party review years worth of cases to discover the extent to which the Police Department inflated clearance rates in sexual assault cases. the agency pressured the head of the sex crimes unit to declare more cases "exceptionally cleared," then removed her when she refused and began puffing up the numbers, anyway. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 11:31 am
Before law school, he worked as a police officer back in Indiana and also ran a Congressional office for his home Member of Congress. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 8:00 am
Isiah Nichols, 20, was held in lieu of $50,000 bail; Emmanuel McNeal, 20, was held without bail; Rashi Treadwell, 25, was held in lieu of $150,000 bail; Hanif Washington, 19, was held in lieu of $1 million; and Jack Austin, 20, was held in lieu of at least $50,000 bail, according to inmate records from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 7:34 am
Auditors from the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed allegations that the Austin Police Department pressured the head of its sex-crimes unit to improperly classify rapes as "exceptionally cleared" when that was not the case. [read post]
29 Dec 2018, 7:07 am
Austin Justice Coalition and allies win accountability victories in police contract, new oversight ordinance: Advocates who had stalled a new union contract at the Austin Police Department last year doubled down on that new leverage to secure new transparency and accountability reforms. [read post]
24 Dec 2018, 8:54 am
In Austin, EFF-Austin has also collected its events in an online video archive. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 2:15 pm
Green Valley Special Utility District arises from a dispute over efforts to provide sewer services in an area between Austin and San Antonio. [read post]
