Subject: David Kunkle

• Schutze Defends Kunkle, and That's No Crime

  January 4, 2007

• Club Blue Seeing Red

  October 16, 2006

• Reporter Envy

  September 28, 2006

• Top Chief

  July 13, 2006

• Copping an Attitude

  May 23, 2006

• Tag, You're It

  May 19, 2006

• Call and No Response

  April 19, 2006

• The Source of Love

  July 30, 2007

• Don't Shoot! It's Rosh Hashanah!

  September 12, 2007

• Copping A Feel For The Local Music Scene

  June 4, 2009

• Towing the Line at City Hall

  May 30, 2008

• Oh, We Thought Operation Oasis Involved Some Kind of Wonderwall

  August 21, 2008

• You Really Might Wanna Get Auto Insurance Before January 1

  This just in from City Hall, a reminder: In exactly one month, drivers stopped for traffic violations who can't prove they have insurance will find their rides getting a free trip to the Dallas Auto Pound. (The return trip will, of course, cost ya. And them some.) Right now, the city tows only cars belonging to the uninsured involved in traffic accidents. But, come January 1, it applies to even the most routine speeding ticket, as per the Uninsured Motorist Ordinance approved by the Dallas City

  December 1, 2008

• Tomorrow Morning, a Fired DPD Officer Will Fight to Get His Job Back

  In March, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired Senior Cpl. Jeffrey "Jack" Nelson, one of the three officers involved in the now-infamous phony ticket scandal that also resulted in the officers filing a lawsuit against D magazine last July. As The News recounted upon Nelson's firing in the spring:Senior Cpl. Jeffrey Nelson ... entered "inaccurate, false or improper information on citations" and engaged in an unacceptable "pattern of enforcement activity," according to police. Cpl. Nelson also u

  December 16, 2008

• Weight of Evidence

  August 21, 2008

• Crystal Ball

  Buzz's predictions for newly elected Dems

  December 28, 2006

• Cheese Holes

  Finally I get why nothing City Hall says to me makes sense

  February 15, 2007

• Hup, 2, 3

  Gay pride takes a walk

  September 16, 2004

• Color Code

  Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle's honeymoon is about to end, if white, black and Latino officers have anything to say about it

  September 2, 2004

• Awkward

  The mayor, local reporters and, of course, Chief Kunkle all have an opinion on Sarah Dodd

  September 28, 2006

• Fifth Time's the Charm

  Till, like, whenever do us part

  December 7, 2006

• Mr. Sunshine

  I see Dallas' glass as half-full in 2007, but what's in it?

  January 4, 2007

• Race for the Prize: In March, Dallas Will Get Its Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon On

  Megan FeldmanMarathoner and reality TV star Josh Cox was at City Hall for today's announcement.So the "major announcement" at Dallas City Hall this afternoon was the unveiling of a new annual running event: the Rock 'n' Roll Dallas Half Marathon. It's set for March 14, 2010, and organizers -- which include the city, the White Rock Marathon and the Competitor Group, the latter of which runs Rock 'n' Roll half marathons across the country -- guesstimate it'll draw some 15,000 runners each year. Sa

  June 3, 2009

• C'mon Get Happy

  Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

  January 4, 2007

• SAFE as Hell

  Cops ignore rampant drug trade, crack down instead on squeegee guys

  December 14, 2006

• Busted

  It's not just us; two state legislative committees find a culture of corruption at City Hall.

  March 9, 2006

• SEKT and the City

  March 2, 2006

• Bah Hum-Buzz

  Buzz gets his jollies keeping tabs on 2005's naughty and nice guys. OK, mostly naughty.

  December 15, 2005

• Sticks and Stones

  Chief Kunkle has to fight crime with the tools the council will give him

  November 3, 2005

• Better Homes

  September 15, 2005

• After the Flood

  Plus: Still Living, Wrist Slap, We Screwed Up

  September 8, 2005

• Payback

  Five cop cars hit a businessman who cried to the city manager

  August 4, 2005

• Blame the Other Guys

  A former DPD assistant chief over narcotics says she was made a patsy by the city

  June 30, 2005

• Rent a Cop

  Or else

  May 26, 2005

• Kickback City

  You wouldn't believe how bad Dallas looks in Austin

  May 12, 2005

• Letters

  December 9, 2004

• On Your Watch

  Those are scary words for Dallas' top cops

  December 2, 2004

• Weird City

  Chief Kunkle and a black neighborhood work together on the rule of law

  October 14, 2004

• Royal Police

  Kunkle must teach them to spell d-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y

  July 22, 2004

• Please, Not a Nut

  Oh, it's so scary when they name a new chief

  May 20, 2004

• More Cops Means Less Service?

  July 16, 2009

• Third Time's Not a Charm for Fired Dallas Cop. Also: Bolton Won His Suit Against Dallas?

  Kimberly ThorpeDPD Chief David Kunkle testifying today at Fernando Perez's administrative reinstatement hearingThe hearing for once, twice, three-times-a-fired-Dallas cop Fernando Perez just wrapped -- and Administrative Law Judge Willie Crowder upheld the termination. And thus ends the tale of Fernando Perez, who opted to hold the hearing behind closed doors when Unfair Park showed up at City Hall for a progress report earlier this afternoon. (So happens that we showed up just as Dallas police

  July 20, 2009

• NY Times Takes on DPD's "Noxious Practice" of Ticketing Non-English Speaking Drivers

  ​This morning, The New York Times' editorial page insists the tale of Ernestina Mondragon, the first of 39 drivers ticketed by Dallas police for not speaking English to speak up, is merely a symptom of a larger issue: "how local police departments should deal with recent immigrants." (And, no, the editorial does not say that Mondragon's been in the U.S. for 29 years.) After all, Police Chief David Kunkle has said it's very possible his officers were just enforcing a federal statute available o

  November 4, 2009

• Former HP Mayor Collapsed During Chief Kunkle's Retirement Press Conference

  Jack Hammack​Sam sends news that moments ago, in the middle of Police Chief David Kunkle's farewell press conference, Jack Hammack, who was standing behind Kunkle, collapsed. Those standing around him, including former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, tried to help him up, while officers called for a defibrillator and an ambulance before administering CPR. Hammack is a former Highland Park mayor and co-founder of Safer Dallas Better Dallas with Charles Terrell. Paramedics just arrived and said he'll

  November 12, 2009

• Angela Hunt Wasn't Pleased to Find Out About Chief Kunkle's Adios from Media, But Does Want Mary Suhm to Conduct National Search

  Chief Kunkle and Angela Hunt at the Katy Trail lighting ceremony last year​Several members of the Dallas City Council are in San Antonio at a National League of Cities conference. Angela Hunt is not, which is why, like most of the city, she found out that DPD Chief David Kunkle was retiring by turning on the local news at 10 last night. Was she pleased? Not really: "I am disappointed that our city manager didn't apprise the council of this and that we learned about this from the media first,"

  November 12, 2009

• Kunkle's Retirement Press Conference Was More Like a Melancholy Family Farewell

  Photos by Patrick MichelsChief David Kunkle at his retirement press conference today; standing next to him, wife Sarah Dodd​When a big-city police chief announces a sudden early retirement, you expect a lot questions -- most of which begin with "Why ...". Apparently, they were all answered last night. This morning's press conference at Dallas Police Department HQ was more like an event held in honor of everybody's favorite grandfather who's decided it's time to collect his gold watch and m

  November 12, 2009

• Wherein DPD Chief Kunkle Tells Schutze Why He Didn't Talk to News for Crime-Stats Story

  Patrick MichelsDPD Chief David Kunkle at his retirement press conference on November 12​As Unfair Park already noted earlier this morning, The Dallas Morning News has a hell of a story this morning about the Dallas Police Department and the feeling of some experts and involved citizens that it has been cooking the books on violent crime. It's a journalistic triumph for reporters Steve Thompson and Tanya Eiserer, with one small shortcoming, which, of course, I'm going for. Somebody -- based on

  December 15, 2009

• Data Collector Quoted in DMN Crime-Stats Story Now Says "I'll Take Kunkle's Side"

  Patrick MichelsIs Kunkle a numbers-fudger or simply exercising good judgment in dealing with confusing federal guidelines?​Another front-page story last week in The Dallas Morning News criticizing the Dallas Police Department's crime-reporting methods had the paper in a self-congratulatory mood, with the editorial board demanding "an independent external audit or a formal FBI review of Dallas' crime-reporting procedures" and Steve Blow applauding his colleagues for revealing that "Dallas

  December 22, 2009

• Buzz Gives '09 a One-Fingered Wave Goodbye

  December 31, 2009

• What's Not Good for Morale? Money Missing from the Dallas PD's Employee Morale Fund.

  ​For me, a good City Hall audit report is better reading than a John Grisham novel. You just have to know how to read it (upside down, holding it up to the mirror, between the lines). Today's offering is the City Auditor's report on the police department's Employee Morale Fund, for which the sub-head should have been, "What kind of morale are we talking about?" But first this disclaimer: The audit was requested by Chief David Kunkle. So Kunkle must have known something wasn't right. And Kunkle

  January 25, 2010