Naked City

A UT grad is arrested in Jerusalem for peacefully opposing Israel's seizure of a Palestinian building.

"...a call informing you that your child had been arrested in a faraway land. Yet this is precisely what..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Castleman House Is History?..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column

Selective Enforcement

The Sixth Street Load-In Policy

"...strict letter of the law, you would have to arrest everyone on Sixth Street every time they walk out..."

May 1, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"...Austin, so he and Barber set off for her house in the capital city. An unapologetic slob of long..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

APD Sued Over 2003 Search

Southeast Austin family charges it was target of illegal police raid

"...were violated when members were subject to an unlawful arrest and an unreasonable search last fall...."

July 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Twitter Flame War Fires Up Austin FC Supporters to Help the Unhoused

For Los Verdes, y'all means all

"...The linked video pans through an encampment used by unhoused people in a North Austin park near I-35 in..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights

When community matters more than the law

"...Hernandez's policy. Members of both the state's Senate and House of Representatives have filed anti-sanctuary bills this session –..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Victoria Rossi

Don't Fear the Reefer!

Momentum builds for Lone Star legalization of marijuana

"...been assigned a committee hearing – once by the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (back in 2001) and then by..."

March 14, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

No Place Like Home

All Belinda Acosta wanted was a roof over her head that wouldn't explode into flames. Little did she know that jumping into the Austin housing market is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

"...Dream analysts say the appearance of houses, buildings, and what happens in them are metaphorical expressions..."

July 28, 2000 Features Feature by Belinda Acosta

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...park located directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Justice Denied?

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

"...by police investigators and prosecutors anxious to secure an arrest and conviction in one of Travis County's most emotionally..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature by Jordan Smith

What Made Him Do It?

Weeks-long bomb scare ends Wednesday with few answers

"...a vendetta was targeting specific African-American families. Anthony Stephan House was killed by the first bomb, at his Harris..."

March 23, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Death Watch: Two Set to Die

Two inmates on death row deny murder was the end goal

"...in March 2009 trying to evade cops and avoid arrest for outstanding warrants when he hit and killed 20-year..."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

When Confessions Prove False

Jonathan Holt told police he'd murdered his wife. But he hadn't killed her, and the cops should have known it.

"...The scene of the crime was the small two-bedroom house at 8767 Birmingham Dr. in South Austin. The victim..."

April 25, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM: Just Since April

Secret surveillance efforts fly in the face of our Constitution

"...April 2: "Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest." The court gave police the power to humiliate anyone..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Documentary from the filmmakers who made Gunner Palace details the story of Yunis Abbas, an Iraqi journalist falsely detained for nine months at Abu Ghraib.

"...September 23, 2003, American soldiers burst into the family’s house in Baghdad and rounded up Yunis and two of..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Raped Twice?

Virginia Glore asked the APD for a rape test -- instead they're prosecuting her for DWI.

"...-- and she remembers trying to get them to arrest her. She gave them a false name, she said,..."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Council Unanimously Votes to End Low-Level Pot Enforcement

Manley responds: "APD will still enforce marijuana laws"

"...justice system. As the Chronicle reported in September, cannabis-related arrests disproportionately impact black and brown people in Austin, even..."

Jan. 24, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

How Much Reform Is Enough in the Travis County District Attorney Race?

Incumbent D.A. Margaret Moore faces challengers from the left

"...Washington and the Obama administration, serving first as a House committee counsel on labor issues, then special counsel to..."

Aug. 23, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...shot and mounted in his office at the county courthouse. There, stuffed animals stare glass-eyed at the public, their..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...– that fractured in Jared Roark's neck during an arrest near the Capitol a few days after Donald Trump..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Cameras for Cops

Will City Council get a policy in place on June 9?

"...Information Resources COO Dale Richardson recently told the Texas House of Representatives' Emerging Issues in Law Enforcement Com­mittee that..."

June 3, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

News Roundup: Law & Order

Council argues, Buehler arrested, grass green

"...grand jury is confirmed; a police accountability activist is arrested by – surprise – the police; a controversial East..."

Aug. 3, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Police dropped charges against AISD senior Mamadee Kamara – but that didn't stop the district from acting as judge and jury

"...explained it to me, once the affidavit [for his arrest] was filed, that was the end of it, and..."

Sept. 25, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...committee member and program coordinator of the Keep Austin Housed AmeriCorps project, said such events are vital to bringing..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature

Getting a Ticket Beats Going to Jail

APD nips arrest policy to address jail overcrowding

"...and overburdened county budgets, state lawmakers last year enacted House Bill 2391, which offers police a choice to issue..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...sounds like negligence. On Tuesday, after a player was arrested for alleged involvement in a robbery and assault, head..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature

Immigration Folly at the Lege

"...Sweeping immigration reforms passing through the Texas House could severely affect the way the city does business...."

April 27, 2007 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Weed Watch

Even Willie is getting busted these days

"...new crime statistics released last week by the FBI, arrests for marijuana possession reached a record high in 2005,..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Homeless Tangled in Net of Stolen Property Sting

Homeless advocates cry foul over APD's Operation Out of the Box, which netted more than a dozen suspects for allegedly buying stolen property

"...police more than a dozen suspects charged with "felony arrest by appropriation" and a handful of others who were..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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