by Daryl Slusher | Mar 31, 2021 | Police and Public Safety
On March 25 the Austin City Council moved a step closer to authorizing a new police cadet class beginning June 7 — after over a year without a cadet class. The vote was eight to one with two Council Members abstaining. Council Member Greg Casar voted no while Mayor...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 25, 2021 | Police and Public Safety
Among other items, today’s Austin City Council agenda features a choice on whether the Council will approve a police cadet class beginning in June. Last summer the Council zeroed out the budget for new cadet classes at the Austin Police Academy, the training...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 10, 2021 | City Council 2021
As noted a few weeks ago, the Austin Independent had a few stories in the works when the power outages resulting from the Deep Freeze hit. At that point we held off on completing those stories and instead switched to covering the collapse of the state grid, and in... by Daryl Slusher | Jun 23, 2020 | True Stories
by Daryl Slusher Let’s take a look at the very fluid situation between the Austin Police Department, the Austin City Council, the City Manager, activist groups, and protestors. In one of the more controversial issue on the table, the Council is responding...
by Daryl Slusher | Jun 6, 2020 | True Stories
by Daryl Slusher Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has faced additional challenges to those confronting other American mayors during the protests resulting from the police killing of George Floyd. As we all have seen that death took place with the police officer,...
