An AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT Success Story: They are Very Effective at Identifying and Arresting Homicide Suspects.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20190607/why-is-austin-polices-homicide-arrest-rate-highest-in-country I am very hopeful that this June 7, 2019, factual report from the "Austin American-Statesman" about the phenomenal success of APD's Homicide Unit detectives is also true in the year 2020. One key paragraph in this much-appreciated article written by reporter Ryan Autullo of the American-Statesman staff: "From 2007 to 2017, Austin police arrested a suspect in 73% of the city’s homicide investigations, the highest rate in a 'Washington Post' analysis last year of homicide arrests in the nation’s 55 largest cities. Austin loomed significantly above the analysis’ average arrest rate of 49.6% and other large Texas cities like San Antonio (57%), Fort Worth (54%), Dallas (52%) and Houston (49%)." As a homicide-prevention-minded private citizen in Austin, I will also be very, very grateful to APD if Austin Police in the year 2020 identify and arrest a higher percentage of all of the alleged ATTEMPTED-HOMICIDE PERPETRATORS than any other big-city municipal law-enforcement agency in the U.S. If APD can earn a first-place award in that category, I will be very, very pleased to the point of elated.