Posted on 02/23/2014 5:19:29 AM PST by logi_cal869
Austin police chief Art Acevedo has issued an apology for comments he made during a press conference yesterday concerning the arrest of a female jogger near the University of Texas campus on Thursday.
Acevedo dismissed the controversy over police handling of a jaywalking jogger, saying 'Cops are actually committing sexual assaults on duty so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas.'
Today, he released a statement saying that he was trying to put the arrest of jogger Amanda Jo Stephen 'into context by bringing attention to the fact that law enforcement deals with many acts of serious misconduct' including recent cases of police officers sexually assaulting civilians.
'In hindsight I believe the comparison was a poor analogy, and for this I apologize,' reads his statement.
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Out here, we shoot em on sight! ;-)
Here we will certainly agree. No one in this incident came off looking good. But because cops are supposed to be highly trained professionals, I do, in general, expect more from them.
EYE EYE, ociffer! :-)
I worked at ASU for a couple of years, and every Semester the first week of class was a nightmare because droves of students would jaywalk and ride bikes straight across a one-mile stretch of Apache Blvd in Tempe by the hundreds. Safety in numbers, I guess. Driving through was utterly impossible until the one-week intensive Jaywalking sweep by Tempe Police would clear them out until the next Semester's batch of greehorns.
What I find interesting about this story is the date. I'm sure school started weeks ago, right? That's when a Jaywalking crackdown should have started. And, they usually use officers who are younger, more in shape and cuter. This chickie would not have gone floppy and screamed/cried if she thought the guy grabbing her was a stud.
When I visit my daughter at her college, I’d say 70% of the kids who approach an intersection will walk through if it is clear, whether they have a walk sign or not.
I know I cross the street when it is clear, and ignore the stupid walk signs. We have way too many laws to protect stupid people.
Yes, makes sense to me. What do you think. Drugs are easier to get than alcohol. Also the binge drinking has skyrocketed because of the drinking age.
Austin Police Chief:
Cops are actually committing sexual assaults on duty so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas.
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Dallas PD thanks you
Leni
he really looks like he should be a Chief of any police force......NOT has jackass written all over his face.
The residents of this particular area have been complaining to Austin PD for some time about bicyclists and pedestrians ignoring the rules and creating hazards. Pedestrians are narrowly missed almost every day in this same area, primarily due to darting out from between parked cars without looking at traffic. Austin PD was responding to citizen complaints and had just finished a week of cracking down on cyclist behavior and now were working on pedestrian behavior. This woman jaywalked right in front of two APD officers who had already pulled someone aside for the same offense. When they asked her to stop, she either did not hear them or ignored them. When one of the officers put his hand on her shoulder to get her attention, she became very abusive and refused to even give her name. Should this have progressed to an arrest? Maybe, maybe not, but from what I have seen of the full video and the report, this young woman really had herself to blame.
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