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Austin American-Statesman B7 Wednesday, June 27, 1990 Groups call for dismantling of Austin police's vice squad -SLEEP SHOPJ iiWfr ss mm1 aiiMMFsn sale SAVE MOO00 to $74900 SEALY COMPARABLE SLEEP SHOP MODEL RETAIL PRICE PRICE By John Harris American-Statesman Staff A coalition of constitutional rights groups intensified their call Tuesday for the abolition of the Austin police vice squad, saying the department should put greater priority on crimes that endanger the community. The recent indictments of former Senior Sgt. Byron "Bubba" Cates, the vice squad's former supervisor, are symptoms of the problem with enforcement of "sin laws," such as those against prostitution, said Nancy Moses of Citizens Advocating Police Reallocation. She was joined at a news confer ence by Terry Liberty Parker of Texas Freedom Network and representatives of four other groups. While not all police officers are bad, "unfortunately, they're just trying to do the job in a system of government that has come to be the complete opposite of what it was intended to be that is, the government that governs best governs least," Moses said.

Mark Tesauro of the University Libertarian Group said, "It seems a bit ludicrous" that police should spend nearly $360,000 a year on its vice squad as gang violence escalates in Austin. The coalition must initiate conversations with police Chief Jim Everett about the vice squad and beatings by police, said Sylvia Ce-dillo of the Central Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. She said the chapter averages 50 calls a week from citizens saying they have been humiliated or beaten by police. "It's embarrassing that a city like Austin that considers itself progressive will tolerate (it)," she said. Capt.

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Oden said the grand jurors "had some questions about procedures and policies within the department' for monitoring problems when they arise. And, they wanted a chance to discuss those policies and procedures and give the chief the benefit of some of the information and conclusions they had reached in the investigation." "It was a good, informative exchange," Oden said. Everett said he had discussed internal affairs investigations, the stress and occasional burnout faced by officers, and administrative procedures. "I don't see it as unusual at all," Everett said of being called to the grand jury. "It was more or less just information.

I'm the depart- abused a woman who managed a North Austin massage parlor during a prostitution investigation, and abused a suspected pimp during a sting operation at a motel. The third oppression charge results from an incident in which the victim has never been identified. Vice officers who worked under Cates told police investigators that Cates abused an unidentified man who was sitting in his car in the parking lot of a massage parlor. The criminal mischief charge alleges that Cates damaged the wall of a motel while questioning the suspected pimp. "It was the judgment of the grand jury that there had been unlawful destruction of property," Oden said, "and they felt strongly that the public, as a matter of principle, shouldn't pay" for the damage.

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