South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...of age story follows young adults grappling with sex, consent, identity, and power on their paths to adulthood. (World..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Bill of the Week: In Memory of Sandra Bland

An effort to ensure in-custody deaths like hers don't happen again

"...(traffic stops as a cover for other reasons) and searches based only on consent (without warrants); doing away with..."

March 10, 2017 News Column by Michael King

OPM Report: Probable Cause for Concern

Latest report on police complaints reflects a troubling increase

"...149,000 stops last year – the number of vehicle searches actually increased, by 8%, for a total of 12,653..."

Nov. 29, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4

With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law

"...the practice is 'never ethically acceptable' unless a prisoner consents or is unable to make a rational choice" (Time,..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Police Monitor Report Leads to Search Policy Changes

APD officers will be required to get written consent for searches

"...next month, any time Austin Police officers ask for consent to search an individual during a stop – traffic,..."

July 27, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

APD: Complaints Decrease, Disciplinary Actions Increase

Police monitor releases annual report

"...Beginning next month, any time Austin Police ask for consent to search an individual during a stop – traffic,..."

July 23, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

APD Consent Searches Decrease

Consent searches often linked to racial profiling

"...it, taken from the department’s annual racial profiling report: Consent searches by Austin officers decreased in 2011 – from..."

March 28, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.

"...And there are statistics on this: They're asked to consent to searches of their vehicles more; they're not given..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Search Results

Police monitor's report invites additional scrutiny

"...as why blacks appear to be subjected to vehicle searches more often than whites. Indeed, according to the report,..."

July 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

APD Releases Racial Profiling Report

Traffic and pedestrian stops down last year; searches up

"...the mayor and City Council. But the number of searches conducted was up, and African-Americans were subject to a..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

APD Releases Racial Profiling Report

Traffic and pedestrian stops down last year, searches up

"...just under 200,000 in 2006. The total number of searches conducted increased last year, however, with 15,957 searches compared..."

March 12, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

APD Pot-Hunters Are Data-Mining at AE

Are you using 'too much' energy? Inquiring drug cops want to know.

"...Austin Energy customers – without those customers' knowledge or consent – in an effort to find and focus upon..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...memo attached to the report. Though Ellison notes that consent searches of blacks dropped nearly 7% in 2006, overall..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

APD's Stan Knee Goes East – Way East

After nine years, APD Chief Stan Knee steps down and moves – to Afghanistan

"...Linder. "For example, he's reduced significantly the number of consent searches" conducted by police – wherein police ask to..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• A new, more restrictive APD policy on "consent searches" – performed at the request of an officer..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature

More Damning Data Against Racial Profiling

Activists recommend abolishing "consent" searches

"...profiling in police traffic stops reveals that while so-called "consent" searches are down, such searches are still more likely..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lege Wrap-Up

Criminal justice

"...a bill that would restrict police use of so-called consent searches. The law allows police to search a vehicle..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature

Lege Wrap-Up

A look back at the 79th

June 3, 2005 News Feature

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...passed a bill that would limit police use of consent searches during routine traffic stops. Police use consent searches..."

April 29, 2005 News Column

Lege Roundup

"...seek to ban law enforcement use of the so-called "consent search" during traffic stops. Consent searches occur when an..."

March 18, 2005 News Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Racial Profiling Data Illuminating, yet Inconclusive

The nation's most comprehensive study to date shows a pattern suggesting profiling, but reporting methods need more uniformity

"...be found with contraband as a result of those searches. According to the report, which was based on 2003..."

March 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Babies Behind Bars

In the mirror world of TDCJ, life goes on

"...seem to love. Eyes may meet furtively during strip searches. Fingers may touch in the chow line or at..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Naked City

Withhold federal money until police resolve race crisis, group demands

"...police, are routinely harassed through police abuse of so-called consent searches, and that complaints of police misconduct are often..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

ACLU Blasts Drug Task Forces

Yet more charges of impropriety against Texas' much-maligned supernarcs

"...– like apparent racial profiling and unhealthy dependence on consent searches to further interdiction and subsequent asset-forfeiture operations, according..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

APD Racial Profiling: New Numbers, Old Questions

The 2003 report shows disparities but also problems with the data itself

"...is in the percent of stops that end in searches and, in particular, stops that end with a consent..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

2003 APD Racial Profiling Stats

"...WHITEBLACKHISPANICOTHER Austin population52.99.830.26.8 Austin drivers (*est.)64.68.321.05.1 Traffic stops52.013.031.04.0 Searches arising from traffic stops31.723.244.10.9 Searches as % of stops5.515.912.42.0..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature

Naked City

APD and the sheriff take different approaches to comply with state law

"...including numerous tables containing various data on stops and searches, broken down by race and gender, and several expository..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin @ Large: Unequal Farce

The 'Statesman' leaps to its own defense … and crashes on takeoff

"...– recent independent report showing racial disparities in traffic-stop consent searches. What's at issue in the Statesman series, presumably,..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in four other areas: number of complaints, car stops, consent searches, and lethal force. At some point you are..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column

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