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13 Jun 2011, 8:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"This development is good news not just for the parolees affected but for local police departments who, going forward, won't have to perform as much additional monitoring required of those on the sex offender registry (see the correction below). [read post]
24 May 2007, 3:00 am
.'Feel-good' legislation ignores real border security needsThe McAllen police chief entirely summed up my opinion of so-called "border security" legislation (HB 13) that's nearing passage in Austin ("Police chief urges sheriffs to remember city departments," McAllen Monitor, May 23):McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez slammed state and federal legislators during a speech given before the quarterly meeting of the Texas… [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 5:32 am by Nathan Koppel
“The bottom line is the police department will be there to protect your rights as Americans,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told KXAN. [read post]
22 May 2009, 12:35 am
It could result from more crime, but could also be explained by more reporting of crime or improved data processing by police. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 12:23 pm by Eva Ruth
I’d hoped to be inconspicuous and left my home in Austin two hours early. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 7:09 am by brooks
  Also, spokespersons for the Austin Police Department said they’d support a ban. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 8:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At Texas Standard, we find a report on a new study by Shefali Patil out of the UT-Austin business school proclaiming that police accountability activism causes liberal cops to become dispirited and do a lesser job than their conservative colleagues.Basically, Dr. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 3:05 am
That information is for the most part knowable through public records, though it takes a lot of legwork to get at it and police departments are (regrettably) loathe to do it proactively. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 11:35 pm
John Hoberman of UT-Austin in 2005 wrote an informative article on the subject ("Dopers in Uniform," May 22, 2005). [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 1:44 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
See coverage from the Austin Statesman and a copy of the judge's 102-page order. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 11:12 am by Ashoka Mukpo
 Still, police departments across the country deployed staggering levels of violence against protesters. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 12:48 pm by Shahid Buttar
After two years of public records requests, LPL also released evidence that the Chicago Police Department uses funds gained through civil asset forfeiture to purchase surveillance technology used to spy on cell phone networks during mobilizations by the movement for black lives. [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]
9 Dec 2013, 9:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire wants to make police departments at private universities like Rice subject to the open records act, reported the Houston Chronicle and a local TV station after video emerged of Rice rent-a-cops beating an alleged bicycle thief with batons. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 3:29 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
And from ALEC, see an article on shifting from defined benefit pensions to 401k-like retirement policies, which DeLord predicted would happen for Texas police departments within 20-25 years.Forensic errors caught, but still too commonAn analyst at the Houston Forensic Science Center was fired after she shredded her notes in a murder case rather than document the source of errors in an analysis, the Houston Chronicle reported. [read post]
30 Mar 2019, 8:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
*Proportion of traffic stops at which Austin police officers used force against a driver in 2018: 77.2 per 10,000 stops. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 5:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A rep from the Austin Police Department complained about "burdensome reporting requirements" in Hughes and Hinojosa's bill, which are modeled after reporting requirements involving wire taps and pen registers already required in the law. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 12:16 pm by Victoria Gallegos
Pittman confirmed her department had prior knowledge of armed white supremacist and milita groups attending the D.C. protests but that the 1,200 capitol police who worked the event were “no match” for the insurrectionist. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 12:00 pm
But as Judge Garcia cautioned in his ruling, “the Legislature is free to ignore the pleas of city and county officials, along with local police departments, who are in the trenches and neighborhoods enforcing the law on a daily and continuing basis. [read post]