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16 Jan 2017, 10:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
What a breathtaking mess the managers of Austin PD's now-closed DNA lab finds themselves in, and how fortunate for former Chief Art Acevedo that he picked up a new gig in Houston before all the details of the story came out. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 5:39 pm by Jamie Spencer
 (Short version: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo announced that anyone who was arrested for DWI and refused to take a breath test would be forced to take a blood test.) [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 4:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rape survivors didn't feel that he blamed them, they observed it.Here's the context: Manley's predecessor as APD chief, Art Acevedo (now chief in Houston) replaced the head of Austin's sex crimes unit because she refused to alter clearance-rate data to say cases were closed because victims wouldn't cooperate in situations where that wasn't the case.The department actually did that to her. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 8:07 am by brooks
  Yesterday, Chief Art Acevedo announced that a number of changes were being made to help decrease those distractions. [read post]
19 May 2020, 2:29 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
According to the Tatum report, Chief Manley, when he was chief of staff to Art Acevedo, intervened to stop more aggressive oversight of the DNA division, which soon thereafter was closed and essentially put into receivership. [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]
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]
5 May 2020, 1:26 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" But it happened because Manley failed to act.Blaming rape victims when APD was caught fudging sex-assault statsWhile Manley was chief of staff under Art Acevedo, the department removed the head of the Sex Crimes Unit because she refused to change case files to claim detectives had closed the cases when they had not. [read post]
In response to Thursday’s verdict, Aurora Police Chief Art Acevedo released a statement expressing “respect [for] the verdict. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 4:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Statesman story opened:Federal and local authorities are looking into the off-duty employment of several Austin police officers who were paid cash by a wealthy Mexican man to watch over his daughter while she attends college, the American-Statesman has learned.Two officers have left the Austin Police Department in the past month since the inquiry started, and others who may have also worked on the private security assignment have been questioned.Austin Police… [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 2:29 pm by [email protected]
The video includes questions and answers on traffic stop interactions and a cameo of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo describing the official channels to complain about an officer’s conduct. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 2:29 pm by [email protected]
The video includes questions and answers on traffic stop interactions and a cameo of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo describing the official channels to complain about an officer’s conduct. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 7:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The slowdown has come as the state’s population continues to grow.The paper quoted Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo insisting that "there’s a direct correlation between traffic enforcement and bad outcomes," but at least for fatalities, that doesn't jibe with the data. [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]
6 Jan 2009, 7:21 am
Jim Harrington of the Texas Civil Rights Project, which had helped seek the federal inquiry, said, 'All I can say is, 'Wow.' It is pretty much an indictment of the way things used to be and is a blueprint for what needs to be done yet.' Police Chief Art Acevedo will name a team of commanders to begin putting the more than 150 recommendations in place, after which he hopes to get a 'clean bill of health' from the Justice Department. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Taylor, who had been on the force for five years was involved in another questionable shooting at a downtown Austin condo in 2019.Notably, former Chief Art Acevedo had forbidden officers from shooting at moving vehicles in 2012 unless they were part of a unit specially trained to stop vehicles. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The detectives used what Police Chief Art Acevedo called "an investigative prop" when seeking information from Norwood in the 1988 bludgeoning death of Debra Masters Baker in her home. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:23 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Very glad to see this published, this case received far too little attention when it happened.When the shine wears offHouston Police Chief Art Acevedo has been selling himself in the national press as a progressive reformer. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 5:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Chief Art Acevedo replied personally, a bit peeved: "You are taking the word of the Defense Attorney at face value. [read post]