Posted on 10/31/2020 1:12:51 AM PDT by knighthawk
Austin has seen a spike in violent crime and officer retirements after the city council voted over the summer to immediately slash $20 million from the police department budget, becoming the first major Texas city to do so.
In August, Austin City Council members voted unanimously to cut about $150 million, or roughly one-third, from its police department and allocate those funds to areas like violence prevention, housing and mental health services. Only about $21.5 million was immediately removed from the department's funding in part by canceling three upcoming cadet classes and slashing overtime expenses.
"It is demoralizing for the officers. It is angering for the citizens because they're having to wait longer for officers to get the calls. And it's unsafe for citizens and officers," Austin Police Association President Bill Cassidy told Fox News.
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Don’t they teach cause and effect in the schools out there? :)
Enjoy the suck. You got what you voted for.
If they defund the police, who’s going to be enforcing the law, and what laws will they be enforcing?
Huh, whaddaya know?
I guess that extra funding to “violence prevention” isn’t working.
Austin, the ugly boil of Texas.
What are the chances they will use this “saving” to reduce property tax?
What idiots.
More police is "violence prevention".
In August, Austin City Council members voted unanimously to cut about $150 million, or roughly one-third, from its police department and allocate those funds to areas like violence prevention,
I actually LOL’d at that. Exactly how does one engage in “violence prevention” without a working criminal justice system to act as a deterrent? No one on the left ever explains how these “new age” philosophies work in the real world. I blame Dr. Spock.
Austin is a liberal Texas city that's being run by 'woke' liberls.
Liberals ae too ignorant to understand that:"elections have consequences."
When you vote for politicians who want to raise your taxes, align themselves with violent protesters and anarchists, open our borders, shield criminals in sanctuary cities, take your freedoms under the Bill of Rights, give our jobs to illegal aliens, fund schools that teach our children perverted and communist values, sell-out our secrets and businesses to foreign (Chinese etc) enemies, etc., etc., etc. - THEN EXPECT TO LIVE IN THE HELL-HOLE YOUR VOTE CREATED!!
Related: I recently read that 700,000 Californians have moved to Texas because of the oppressive political, tax and economic conditions in CA. Hopefully, these CA people in TX have come to understand that 'elections have consequences'.
CA. Hopefully, these CA people in TX have come to understand that ‘elections have consequences’.
Good luck with that I live in CA and find far to many lack the ability to reason on anything they are a meme logic tribe.
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