2020 Showcase Silver Award: Broken Blue: Misconduct in the SAPD

KSAT-TV won the 2020 Showcase Silver award for the one-hour news special “Broken Blue: Misconduct in the San Antonio Police Department.”

Using various cases of police misconduct, the broadcast revealed to the public how a combination of state laws, a collective bargaining agreement, and the use of arbitration had formed what some call "a roadblock to police reform."

Their program quickly sparked change in San Antonio including citizen demands to remove excessive job protections for officers, a citizen's campaign to repeal some of those state laws, heated city council meetings, and the mayor promising to roll back officer protections in the next bargaining agreement.

Tim Gerber and Dillon Collier from KSAT spoke with the Headliners Foundation’s Mark Morrison to discuss the outcomes of their investigation.