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How I went from political refugee to a Texas police chief

In 1968 Art Acevedo left Cuba with his parents and they became political refugees. He went on to become the chief of the Houston Police Department in Texas. He's the first ever Hispanic police chief in Houston and says that his life has helped him understand things from a different perspective.

(Photo: Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo. Credit: Houston Police Department)

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