{"id":291713,"date":"2026-05-13T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/291713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:05:08","slug":"gov-abbott-expands-repeat-offender-task-force-to-austin-other-texas-cities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/291713\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott expands repeat offender task force to Austin, other Texas cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday directed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to expand its repeat offender task force to Austin, San Antonio and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The task force combines local, state and federal law enforcement, including DPS troopers and special agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-announces-task-force-to-crack-down-on-repeat-offenders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:launched the initiative in October 2025;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;launched the initiative in October 2025&quot;}\" class=\"link \">launched the initiative in October 2025<\/a>, initially targeting repeat violent offenders in Houston and Harris County.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since then, the governor\u2019s office says the<a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/uploads\/files\/press\/Freeman_Martin_DPS_Texas_Repeat_Offender_Task_Force_Expansion_FINAL.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:\u00a0task force has arrested 728 repeat offenders;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u00a0task force has arrested 728 repeat offenders<\/a>, including 455 identified as \u201chigh-threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Targeting these dangerous perpetrators reduces crime, increases safety, and better protects Texans,&#8221; Abbott said in a statement. &#8220;We will unapologetically back law enforcement, bring dangerous criminals to justice, and keep our communities safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday directed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to expand its repeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,33614,15923,392,19970,6221,69044,6877],"class_list":["post-291713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas-fort-worth-area","tag-federal-law-enforcement","tag-greg-abbott","tag-repeat-offender","tag-repeat-offenders","tag-task-force","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}