That certain blooping sound from my iPhone woke me up before 6 a.m. the other morning — a text message.
It was a police source with a terse note: “Tru off dwi acc at 90 and mcmullen. Off being booked.” The tip would spawn this story.
“Tru” stands for Tactical Response Unit, a specialized force that Police Chief William McManus created shortly after he took the helm here in 2006. The unit’s mission is to saturate high-crime areas of San Antonio. It has been criticized — both within the Police Department and without — for a certain latitude in tactics and culture.
Now my source was saying a TRU officer, drunk, had crashed a city vehicle. (more…)
