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In response to Thursday’s verdict, Aurora Police Chief Art Acevedo released a statement expressing “respect [for] the verdict. [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 6:00 am by Ana Popovich
Panelists include police whistleblower and former Chicago Police Officer Shannon Spalding, former Chief of Police in Austin and Houston, TX and Miami, FL Art Acevedo, and whistleblower and founder and president of Whistleblowers of America Jackie Garrick. [read post]
28 May 2022, 2:25 pm by Michael Ehline
A former Austin and Houston Police Chief, Art Acevedo, stated: “We don’t have all of the particulars right now, but when gunfire is ringing out with, police are trained, expected, and required to engage, engage, engage. [read post]
15 Feb 2022, 2:43 pm by John Floyd
The civil rights suit alleges that HPD failed to hold the narcotics unit accountable for the raid and that the department under former Chief Art Acevedo allowed the embattled Narcotics Squad 15 “to thrive for years through deliberate indifference by supervisors up the chain of command all the way to the Chief’s office. [read post]
13 Feb 2022, 6:52 am by John Floyd
Chief Acevedo resigned and took a job as Miami’s police chief, where he was quickly forced to resign there because of scandals under his leadership of that department. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 4:06 pm by admin
  Police chief Art Acevedo suggests that commissioners were attempting to use the MPD to help enforce their own agenda. [read post]
12 Oct 2021, 6:53 am
 Speaking of racist tropes, City of Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo, who was hired as the Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods of Police Chiefs, WAS FIRED ON TUESDAY MORNING is about to be suspended and fired because of a rant he made about the City of Miami Police Department being run by the "Cuban Mafia. [read post]
4 May 2021, 6:01 pm
  Advice never accepted by new City of Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo. [read post]
8 Apr 2021, 12:08 pm by John Floyd
  Gerald Goines: Bad Cop   That was the case here in Harris County with Gerald Goines, a narcotics detective in the Houston Police Department, who HPD Chief Art Acevedo hailed as a “hero” in January 2019 following the disastrous “Harding Street drug raid. [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 5:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"This is reminiscent of a litany of overhyped commentary in Houston - most of it in TV news stories quoting Andy Kahan at CrimeStoppers or Houston police Chief Art Acevedo - criticizing judges for lenient bail practices. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 9:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston police Chief Art Acevedo says HPD won't change its policies after three high-speed chases in one night, all of them initially stemming from suspects who fled at traffic stops, resulted in two innocent bystanders killed. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 10:42 am by Neal Davis
As for homicides in general, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo predicts Houston may have over 400 murders by this year’s end, which would be the most the city has seen since 1993, when 446 homicides were reported. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 6:59 am by Immigration Prof
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), brings a "fair and commonsense approach" to immigration and a proven track record of working with state and local law enforcement officials... [read post]
8 Nov 2020, 7:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Houston police chief Art Acevedo blamed Austin's "defund" budget on Democrats' state House losses, but it didn't help local police-union bloviator Justin Berry, who ran on an anti-reform agenda and lost in a critical swing district Rs held a couple of cycles ago. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 4:20 am by SHG
In any event, after a four-month investigation[6], Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo fired the four officers, pretty much for the reason that I raised with the shooting. [read post]
23 Aug 2020, 6:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Removing the crime lab from APD was first suggested after mismanagement on Art Acevedo's watch caused the DNA lab to founder, leading the Department of Public Safety to take over the lab then close it. [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]