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6 Oct 2011, 5:32 am
“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]
30 Sep 2011, 3:22 pm
After Grits' recent post about Austin PD's ill-conceived "wardriving" strategy to seek out and map open wifi connections - which was shut down by APD Chief Art Acevedo - I learned that the detective in charge of the department's Digital Analysis Response Team (DART) is the president of the Austin High Tech Crime Investigators Association, which will hold a two-day training late next month. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 3:15 pm
UPDATE (9/22): I fowarded this post to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo and, after a brief back and forth via email, this morning he writes to say the department has canceled today's planned "Operation Wardrive. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 8:15 am
” But Austin police chief Art Acevedo is not fully convinced. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 8:01 am
Art Acevedo, Austin’s police chief, said his department was not ready to fully embrace sequential lineups and would allow officers to use both methods. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 8:17 am
In the undercover sting, Police Chief Art Acevedo noted that two of the bigger problems were drivers trying to beat trains and pedestrians walking on tracks (often with music playing on headphones and blocking out sounds). [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 10:38 am
Much to Chief Art Acevedo's chagrin, the former Sheriff possesses both.Peeking behind the curtain at police union politicsFormer Austin Police Association President Mike Sheffield is ironically in a labor dispute with his employers at the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, Jordan reports:Mike Sheffield, the retired Austin Police Department detective who was president of the Austin Police Association for eight… [read post]
10 Jul 2011, 9:13 am
Said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, "We truly believe people make better choices on those weekends," referring to weekends this no refusal initiative is in place.In Austin, no vehicle related deaths were reported at all over the weekend. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 8:27 am
The president of Austin's police union, Wayne Vincent, questioned whether local talk show host Jeff Ward received special treatment after Ward had his fiancé call APD Chief Art Acevedo while he was pulled over on the side of the road. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 10:14 am
Folks like Ward may eventually have charges dismissed, but they've often still spent a night in jail, often paid thousands for an attorney, and in Ward's case, suffered needless public embarrassment.Austin Chief Art Acevedo told the Statesman, "My No. 1 priority is telling my officers, 'Don't you worry about what happens to the court piece, your job is to get people off the road,'" which sounds to me like the department is encouraging a… [read post]
9 Apr 2011, 4:24 pm
I won't be at all surprised to see more accidental shootings happen while an officer is fumbling with their gun's flashlight attachment.UPDATE: I emailed this post to Austin Chief Art Acevedo, who replied that, "We prohibited certain types of lights because of this type of incident. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 5:12 am
" Chief Art Acevedo replied personally, a bit peeved: "You are taking the word of the Defense Attorney at face value. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 8:55 pm
FourthAmendment.com excerpts this article from Reason.com: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo wants to create a new criminal offense: “driving while ability impaired. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 7:21 am
Abolish Drunk Driving Laws / If lawmakers are serious about saving lives, they should focus on impairment, not alcohol by Radley Balko in Reason Magazine: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo wants to create a new criminal offense: “driving while ability impaired. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:44 am
Chief Art Acevedo deserves credit for turning that ignominious trend around.Less experienced officers are more likely to use force: "In 2009, officers with 1 to 5 years of service submitted the majority of response to resistance reports followed by officers from 6 to 10 years of service. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 7:52 am
MADD's position is especially surprising since they were the primary champion of eliminating deferred for DWIs in the first place.Smith's bill strikes me as a much better solution to the problem than Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo's DWI-Lite suggestion. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 8:59 am
As part of his efforts to adopt more strict DWI laws, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has been routinely claiming that Texas leads the nation in drunk driving fatalities. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 2:11 pm
At least that it what may be in store for Collin and Dallas county motorists if Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has his way. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 12:51 pm
Interestingly, the Austin, Texas police chief, Art Acevedo, agrees with this position to an extent. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:20 am
Reacting to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo's call for a new DWI-lite charge in Texas' statutes, Reason magazine's Radley Balko makes the case for eliminating DWI laws based on blood alcohol content and focusing on impaired driving of all types. [read post]
