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18 Aug 2020, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But when the city of Austin does the same thing at the police department, the sky is falling and all the fiscal conservatives are opposed to budget cutting. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 12:57 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Elsewhere in Texas, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio have all increased police budgets in the wake of the George-Floyd protests, and few other cities except Seattle have enacted IRL budget reductions. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 9:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Despite widespread calls to "defund the police," Austin appears to be the only major city in Texas and one of the only large towns nationwide to reduce the police department budget significantly. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 1:55 pm by Joanna Herzik
The attorney filed a report with the police department. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A program in Houston raises the question: Should they be deployed along with or instead of police officers? [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 1:57 pm by Tia Sewell
On Thursday, a judge ordered five news organizations to turn footage of violence at a protest on May 30 over to the Seattle Police Department, according to the Washington Post. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 1:31 pm by Tia Sewell
Tensions continue to flare in Portland, Oregon, as the Department of Homeland Security has doubled down on deploying components of the department to subdue protests in the city, according to the New York Times. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 12:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Similar lopsided majorities feel that police departments should reform their use-of-force practices, and that non-police ("other types of workers") should be responding to "community issues such as mental health and homelessness. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Allegation: Television host Joy Reid shares a photo on Instagram of a white woman with her mouth open in front of 14-year-old Hispanic boy at a city council meeting on California's sanctuary city law. [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 9:22 am by Eric Halliday
In Texas, federal prosecutors charged Travis Martin III with violating the statute after he attempted to break through a police line onto a ramp for Interstate 45 and then passively resisted arrest by Houston police officers. [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 8:08 am by Joanna Herzik
The attorney filed a report with the police department. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 2:46 pm by Dani Selby
The same day that New York repealed 50-A, Houston’s district attorney concluded that Gerald Goines, a narcotics officer with the Houston Police Department, likely lied about a drug deal for which he arrested George Floyd in 2004. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 11:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
We ramped up and provided law enforcement and the police departments so many protections and really loosened the accountability metrics through state legislation and even local policy. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 9:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 Texas Tribune: A Fort Worth police officer whose uncle died in police custody hopes departments can change.Austin Gonzo: APD's Budget: What would you get rid of? [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 12:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The city needs someone capable of instilling a reform-minded culture in the department, not just another cop who stayed in the profession long enough to be promoted up the ranks. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 2:25 pm by John Floyd
  Houston’s Police Chief Art Acevedo recently told ABC’s The View that the time has come for police departments across the country, and in particular, in Houston, to discuss measures to address police misconduct. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 11:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Same records are already open at Sheriffs offices and non-civil-service cities, and it doesn't create problems for them.Transparency in negotiations: Require that negotiations between city management and the union over police contracts must be public meetings that anyone can attend.Forbid police union contracts from making disciplinary processes more lenient. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 8:40 am by William Ford, Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Chief Art Acevedo, the chief of police for the city of Houston. [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 11:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Cory McCoy at the Tyler Morning Telegraph re-told that story a few years back, check it out.Charges dropped against hundreds of protesters arrested in HoustonTwo hundred miles south, in Houston, more than 650 people were arrested during recent police accountability protests. [read post]