Texas DPS has new focus on downtown Austin patrols

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- As the Texas Department of Public Safety continues its patrols in Austin, there's a new focus on downtown deployments."When we technically ended the partnership, that was one of the areas we added troopers to have a bigger impact on the overall crime," DPS Regional Director Vincent Luciano said during a forum with the Downtown Austin Alliance this month. "We're looking at historical data, typically late night was one of the big issues, we have more troopers that are downtown lat