It's been three months since officers shot and killed Melissa Perez. The department is working to expand its mental health unit to increase its response.
Though council members avoided discussing it in detail, the police shooting death of a woman while she was believed to be in a mental health episode seemed to hang over a police budget discussion.
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Citing the need to be more proactive in how it investigates property crimes, the San Antonio Police Department this summer will centralize that unit and rebrand it as the Property Crimes Task Force.