Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza also wants to keep guns out of the hands of potentially violent people. Our office has also adopted, for the first time ever, a firearm surrender protocol to ensure that people accused of crimes who may pose a threat to our community don t have access to firearms while their case is being adjudicated,” District Attorney Jose Garza said.
Both Interim Chief Chacon and County Attorney Delia Garza say they know business owners want more attention on low-level crimes as well, but expressed that there s only so much they can do.
“We are resource-strapped at this point and, at many times, lower level priority calls are holding for quite some time,” said Chacon. “And I think this has been a source of frustration.
Travis Countyâs top attorneys address criticism during virtual panel
Travis Countyâs top attorneys addressed criticism during a virtual panel discussion on crime in downtown Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas - Travis County’s top attorneys addressed criticism Monday during a virtual panel discussion on crime in downtown Austin.
For months police unions have accused Travis County Attorney Delia Garza and District Attorney Jose Garza of acting out of bounds enabling a loop of catch and release involving dangerous criminals. We can only hold people accountable when we have sufficient evidence to do that. And I just want to take this opportunity to let people know that there is a much higher legal burden to convict someone of a crime than there is to arrest someone or to accuse them of a crime, said District Attorney Garza.
Official portrait of Travis County DA Jose Garza. From his official government website.
There may be a movie’s worth of drama going on inside the Travis County (Texas) District Attorney’s Office. Jose Garza won that office on a platform of, basically, letting criminals go free and indicting cops. Voters should pay more attention to what local office-seekers are saying. Sometimes they actually mean it, and Garza did.
If Austin had a dashboard, all the lights would be blinking red. Austin, the capital of Texas and the heart and seat of Travis County, has suffered at least 47 homicides in 2021. Violent crime is spiking. Police officers are leaving in droves, leaving the streets much less defended from crime than before. That wasn’t Garza’s doing, Austin Mayor Steve Adler led the defunding of APD in August 2020 (and has proceeded to gaslight the city that he didn’t), but that together with Garza’s pro-release priorities are putting convicted felons back on the streets, whe
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An Austin cop is no longer facing charges in connection with a 2019 use of force situation. Travis County DA Jose Garza says an internal review discovered new evidence justifying Officer Gregory Gentry s actions during a drug interdiction operation. Garza says an ADA from the previous administration failed to tell anyone about the evidence. He also apologized to Gentry, who was indicted earlier this year. Another officer is still charged in the case.
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