Feb 2024. Blues Vol 40 No. 2

FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK
ASS-CEVEDO IS BACK
Just when you thought we were
done with Art ASScevedo, the damn
dude is headed back to Texas. To
some made up frickin’ BS job in
Austin. Quite frankly, if I were the
ATX Police Chief, I would be pissed.
Who in the hell needs Art Acevedo
telling anybody how to run their
department. But wait, I’m getting
ahead of myself.
Acevedo is a like a wandering
Gypsy, traveling this great country
seeking his next Chief of Police job.
But he sucks as a chief. He failed
as Austin’s police chief from 2007-
2016. Left Austin to become
Houston’s chief in 2016 and
stayed until 2021. He was one
of the worst police chiefs in
the history of HPD. In ’21 he
packed his bags and headed
for Miami which didn’t last
long. He was fired after only six
months.
Next, he tried being an onair
analyst for CNN. The perfect
place for a washed-up liberal
police chief, but even there he
didn’t cut it. His next stop was
interim police for Aurora Colorado,
one of the most liberal
cities in America.
Acevedo says he was leaving
because he wanted to return to
Texas to spend time with his family.
According to news reports, Acevedo
is returning to Austin, Texas to fill a
newly created position to oversee
the police department.
So why in the hell is ATX bringing
the ASS back? I mean thank God it
isn’t in Houston, but our brothers
and sisters in Austin don’t want him
either. An Austin officer texted me
when the news broke
and said they were
considering throwing a
roadblock up on I35.
“Let’s station people at
the airport, bus stations
and train stations. Roadblocks
on all highways and interstates
and issue a BOLO for one Art
Acevedo.”
When we featured Acevedo in
our November 2021 issue, (https://
www.yumpu.com/en/document/
read/65957865/nov-2021-blues-vol-
37-no-11) he had just been fired
from Miami when he referred to his
bosses as the Cuban Mafia.
I really didn’t know much about
Acevedo before he came to Houston.
Only that he was chief in Austin
for almost 10 years and the city
council loved him. The rank-andfile
cops, not so much. But once I
started digging and researching him
for the article, it became obvious
that Acevedo was a piece of work.
He started his police career with the
CHP in California and worked his
way quickly to assistant chief. But
he wanted to be the top dog and
was one of the top candidates to
replace retiring California Highway
Patrol Commissioner D.O. “Spike”
Helmick.
But that came to a grinding
halt when a story in the LA
Times detailed his relationship
with a female CHP officer and
the sexual harassment claims
that followed. The article stated
Acevedo had been investigated
for allegedly showing
nude photographs of a fellow
CHP officer to other high-ranking
officers while on duty.
Claims filed with three state
agencies allege that Acevedo
kept sexually explicit Polaroid
photographs of the woman in
the glove box of his state-issued
car and showed them to
other supervisors after the affair
ended. Needless to say, he didn’t
get the job and moved to Austin and
became chief.
BREAKING: Now it seems everyone
on the Austin City Council, the PD
and even the custodian at Austin
City Hall, hated the idea of Acevedo
coming back, so the deal is dead.
BUT. Acevedo said he is still returning
to Austin to be with his family.
6 The Blues - February ‘24