Austin Police Department

City workers clocked in for a combined 1,782,228 hours in 2025, with first-responders accounting for the bulk of overtime spending.

The program aims to give officers a chance to communicate with — and learn from — people filing complaints against them.

Austin's drop mirrored cities across the country that also saw less crime last year. But it's a promising trend for the short-staffed department.

Joseph Spees, the 11-year Austin police officer, was fired last month as a result of the incident.

Taylor was sentenced to two years in prison after a Travis County jury convicted him of deadly conduct last year. A Texas appeals court threw out that conviction Tuesday.

Dozens of Muslim Austinites who attended a recent post-prayer breakfast say they were picketed by anti-Muslim demonstrators at Walnut Creek Park.

Austin police say Derek Gillespie, 49, was arrested this week and charged with possessing prohibited explosive devices.

Bert James Baker pleaded guilty after yelling racial slurs at a group of friends before stabbing one of them last February.

The district attorney filed paperwork on Thursday to formally clear the names of four young men accused of the 1991 murders.

The Austin FIRST program will send a mental health clinician and an EMS paramedic along with police to respond to emergent mental health situations.