UPDATE: Ott Asks DOJ For Review of Police Tactics

Request comes on heels of Jackson shooting death

"...UPDATE: In the wake of last month's police shooting death of Larry Eugene Jackson, City Manager Marc..."

Aug. 5, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Chase

"...like to hear the director of a big, dumb chase film like this one say, “Hey, it's a big,..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

News Roundup: Police Firings, Uber Conspirings

Police union accuses Acevedo of retaliation

"...In this week's News Roundup: The police union files a complaint for a former officer's missing..."

Jan. 25, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

A Question About the Police

"...was leaving the Austin Music Awards when this tragic chase and subsequent accident happened [“SXSW: Two Dead, 23 Wounded..."

March 13, 2014 Postmarks

Top 10 Police Beat Stories

Shades of Blue

"...had the necessary charisma and energy, impressing the Austin Police Association as well as dozens of community activists –..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Andrew Romero out at Austin Police Association

APA vice president suspended 20 days from APD, resigns from union post

"...The Austin Police Association lost a key contract negotiator last Friday after..."

May 11, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

To Pursue … or Not?

When should police chase a suspect?

"...Austin Police on Monday said that after an initial review, it..."

June 19, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: The Monitor Comes Knocking

The police monitor and the chief share an exchange of views

"...I'm not sure what the fuss is about over Police Monitor Margo Frasier's review memorandum to Austin Police Chief..."

May 27, 2011 News Column by Michael King

My Semester on the Beat

Wherein our reporter pursues the bad guys, abhors Problem People, studies community policing, and earns a perfect attendance koozie in the APD's Citizen Police Academy

"...turns out there are people riding around with Austin Police Department cops all the time, from cadets in training..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Crime Story

"...returns him to his roots (a la the original Police Story) as a hard-boiled cop with a penchant for..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

’71

A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting

"...Yann Demange’s debut feature is a ferociously kinetic chase movie as well as a white-knuckled piece of profoundly..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

21 Bridges

Chadwick Boseman brings Manhattan to a halt as a corruption-busting cop

"...out of Brooklyn and into the crosshairs of every police officer in New York City. This also puts them..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Sister Aimee

A slightly true story of America's first megapastor on the run

"...themes of celebrity, hypocrisy, and the filing of false police reports. Our daily news is now populated with conversations..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bullet Head

A cracking good Tarantino-esgue heist film

"...The robbers quickly discover there are worse threats than police capture as they run from place to place, taking..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Own the Night

Joaquin Phoenix is dynamic, Mark Wahlberg subdued, and Robert Duvall trusty in this otherwise redundant story about brothers on opposite sides of the law.

"...popular Brooklyn nightclub. He is somewhat distanced from his police-officer relatives, brother Joseph (Wahlberg) and father Burt Grusinsky (Duvall),..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...asked what a federal jury verdict exonerating an Austin police officer for pepper-spraying an anti-war demonstration meant for free..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature

Black and Blue

Corrupt cop drama feels awkwardly dated

"...make an insightful thriller about the challenges of inner-city police work, the odds were never exactly in Black and..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Kidnap

Don't mess with Halle Berry

"...the action takes the form of an intense car chase, with pulsating shots of passing road markings and helicopter..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson's film is a marvelous spectacle: spry, sly, and rich with microdetailed production design and tickling tributes to cinematic forebearers.

"...the moneyed Madame D. suddenly turns up dead, the police suspect Gustave of foul play, especially when her last..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Even the Rain

Amid citizen unrest in Bolivia, a Spanish film crew attempts to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus.

"...director’s closed-eyes imagining of how to direct a foot chase with armored soldiers and frothing dogs. You could argue..."

April 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Sugarland Express

"...an escaped convict and his wife who lead the police on a car chase across Texas in order to..."

Aug. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Satin Steel

"...else. Jade Leung stars as an “unconventional Hong Kong police detective with a past,” creatively named, well… Jade Leung...."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Dog

Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.

"...22, 1972, he and two barroom acquaintances entered the Chase Manhattan Bank on Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York,..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Broken City

Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe mix it up in this mystery thriller directed by Allen Hughes.

"...conscience; and Wright, subtly saucy here as the cold-blooded police chief, who seems to know a little too much..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Déjà Vu

If the science fiction in Déjà Vu has more to do with fiction than science, it’s not as though this Denzel Washington picture ever pauses long enough for that realization to fully take hold.

"...of understanding the science in Bruckheimer’s new age of police procedurals: As long as we can be dazzled by..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Client

"...a Subaru, he doesn't just run away from the police, he runs to the one section of this hospital..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Tomorrow Never Dies

"...diminutive, razor-wire action goddess from the Heroic Trio and Police Story series, is radically unlike any of the pillowy..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Unsuspended Judgments

Battle lines drawn over the police shooting of Kevin Brown

"...family of Kevin Brown, shot and killed by Austin Police Department Sgt. Michael Olsen after a scuffle and chase..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Chrystal

Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.

"...ran their car off a two-lane highway during a police chase, killing their four-year-old son and leaving her with..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Deadly Day for APD

Two shootings within 12 hours; one officer is dead

"...Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo began to cry as he recalled..."

April 6, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

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