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8 shot outside Spiro’s Night Club in Rap Retaliation

by Marshall Jones on May 29, 2009

8 People were shout outside Spiro’s at 2:15am Friday morning.  6 Were taken to the hospital and none are in critical condition.

My question is: what is APD, Spiro’s and the City going to do to stop the violence in our 6th Street Entertainment District?

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City Council Approves Funding for Monitoring Cameras

by Marshall Jones

City council approved Austin’s federal legislative agenda Thursday including $350,000 for Austin Police Department to install and monitor surveillance cameras for high crime areas including downtown Austin and the Sixth Street entertainment district specifically.  In a conversation with Chief Acevedo, he mentioned that the cameras should be called “monitoring cameras” rather than surveillance cameras as [...]

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Crime is Like a Roach

by admin

On March 13th, 2009 KVUE did an interview with Marshall about crime in downtown Austin and the Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association’s (DANA) efforts to work with the Austin Police Department.
“Crime is like a roach,” Marshall says.  “You put a lot of light on it or you put a lot of people around it and it’s [...]

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