Best Comeback

Austin Police Department

Things looked grim for the APD after last February's Cedar Avenue incident, when a routine police call turned into what many termed a "police riot." But the APD seems to have taken seriously community concerns about the lack of minority officers and is changing its recruiting policy. Starting this summer, cadets wait until after they finish training to take the civil service exam, in the hopes of giving African-American and Hispanic recruits a better chance of making the force.

Austin Police Department
715 E. Eighth, 512/974-5000
www.cityofaustin.org/police