Blame the mayor and city council. Anybody who came from California to be chief of a large city's PD necessarily was chief of a large PD in California. This necessarily makes that person a liberal, since there are no large cities in California with conservative governments. Acevido was probably not the only guy under consideration for the job. But he WAS probably the only guy under consideration from a liberal California municipality. Thus, he was probably chosen for that reason, Austin being the place that it is.
In the meantime, write a letter to the editor at the Austin American Statesman (is that the name of the local commie rag?) and ask if Acevido thinks it possible that your friend's $2,000 theft required a 3 hour response time because APD officers were occupied writing jaywalking tickets.
