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Mar 21, 1997 · Within a week of the shooting, Police Chief Elizabeth Watson announced her imminent departure by February 21, and on February 25, the long-awaited APD audit -- which is severely critical of...
Oct 25, 2002 · In August, Elizabeth Watson is hired as APD chief. 1993: Kallestad is convicted on three counts of providing false information to Texas Commerce Bank, Shaw on two counts of falsifying bank...
Nov 22, 2002 · A 1992 task force investigation spearheaded by Travis Co. District Attorney Ronnie Earle and then-APD Chief Elizabeth Watson found that coercion and false confessions plagued the squad's...
Dec 8, 2023 · After the 2020 protests, which in Austin were a reaction to the deaths of Floyd and Ramos, city leaders sought to lessen the influence of the police department’s power in the city.
Jun 26, 2021 · Austin has had only one woman serve as police chief: Elizabeth Watson, who led the department from 1992 to 1997. Cathy Ellison was interim chief in 2006, becoming the first and only...
Jun 29, 2021 · Only two women have led the Austin Police Department in the past three decades. This includes Elizabeth Watson, who served as police chief in the 1990s, and Cathy Ellison, who stood in as interim chief before the city hired Art Acevedo in 2007. As a whole, women are rare in law enforcement.
Captain - 1984. Deputy Chief - 1987. Houston Police Chief - 1990–1992 [1] Austin Police Chief - 1992–1997. Elizabeth "Betsy" Watson was Houston's first female police chief. She served for two years before becoming the police chief in Austin, Texas, and then becoming a law enforcement consultant.
