It wasn't in their press release. Police drive recklessly. Reckless police officers have come close to injuring me on multiple occasions. Once a police officer passed cyclist Tommy Eden so close he nearly hit Tommy. When Tommy caught up to the officer, he asked for the officer's badge number, and was arrested for doing so.
Police make little effort to recover stolen bikes.
I probably should have been harsher on APD in the article, since I had quotes from people saying APD doesn't give a shit about bicyclists. The Austin Chronicle ran an article about police harassment of cyclists in 1997. A local website, the Austin Police Department Hall of Shame , documents local police misconduct in some detail. One reason that problems with the police exist is that they're not accountable to anyone. There's no citizens review board to examine reports of police misconduct, and due to a quirk between local and state law, most of the complaints against officers are kept secret by the police department and are not available to the public.