Art Acevedo

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Art Acevedo is the current police chief of Houston, Texas. Before his time in Houston he served as the police chief of Austin, Texas. He was the first Hispanic to the lead the Austin Police Department in its history. Born in Cuba, Acevedo was 4 years old when he migrated to the United States with his family in 1968. He grew up in California and earned his Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, in Public Administration from the University of La Verne in California. Acevedo began his career in law enforcement as field patrol officer in East Los Angeles with the California Highway Patrol in 1986. Chief Acevedo stopped by Lance’s to catch up on everything from the state of policing in America, body cameras and the highs and lows of being a police chief.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Forward Podcast. I'm your host Lance Armstrong. Happy New Year everybody.
0:06.0	I hope everybody had a great holiday season, a great, great and safe New Year's Eve.
0:12.0	Here's the 2017.
0:14.0	I don't know about y'all, but I'm pretty excited.
0:19.0	Before I go any farther, just want to let you know I'm actually I hope this works I'm not sure it'll work but I'm recording this down at the bottom of the Pallulow Valley on the big island of Hawaii so you hike down park park at the top, hike down.
0:33.0	I'm not far from the water, you maybe see it,
0:36.0	or you can't, you can, I can see it, I was looking at it.
0:39.0	You can maybe hear it, hopefully it doesn't affect this intro.
0:42.0	Could be cool could be not so cool it's
0:46.9	pretty cool sitting here
0:49.9	like I say every week questions questions, comments, concerns, bring them on 2017.
0:55.2	Send me an email the forward podcast at we do sport.com,
1:00.1	WEDU sport.com, the forward podcast at we do sport.com. My guess this week is the police chief in Houston, Texas, which is kind of random, but I guess the real story is that he was the police chief in Austin, Texas for many, many years.
1:19.0	Got to be a friend of mine. His name is Art Acevedo.
1:23.0	He, well, you may not live in either Austin or Houston.
1:29.0	To me it just, it seemed like an interesting podcast to do because there's so much in the media and in the press at large just about
1:40.0	the police forces around the country and you know of course many times it's it's
1:47.0	about excessive force and different tactics so I wanted to I wanted to get his opinion not so much on you
1:56.5	know police work in Austin or in Houston specifically but just police in
1:59.9	general what it's like to be a policeman what are his views of certain
2:05.4	portrayals of of his fellow policeman all around the country so it was it was very compelling. I trust his opinion on this and I hope you do too. It's about an hour.
2:21.0	Very interesting towards the end he talks about his highs and lows of being a policeman.
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