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Data don't match Austin police policy claims on investigating citizen complaints

It's interesting to learn that the percentage of sustained complaints against police officers has gone up under Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, but there's something a bit squirrelly about attributing the increase to a new policy having supervisors investigate low-level complaints instead of Internal Affairs.APD told the Statesman shifting to supervisor investigations "has resulted in a higher percentage of officers getting disciplined and has reduced the number of days such investigations take to conclude." But the policy only took effect in June, while the numbers used to support it included year-to-year data. Reported Tony Plohetski at the Statesman ("Number of disciplined officers increases with supervisor investigation," Sept. 28):Police department statistics showed that from July 2007 to July 2008, 69...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).