Posted on 03/03/2023 8:15:53 PM PST by Angelino97
Texas’ woke capital, Austin, is in the midst of a policing crisis with over 300 vacancies and cops quitting because they feel disrespected, multiple sources tell The Post.
“We’re right there with Portland and Seattle and San Francisco as being one of those places where if you’re at all conservative or in law enforcement, it’s become a hostile place,” Lt. Brian Moon, who retired last month, told The Post of the city he protected for 23 years.
Another 77 officers are expected to retire before the end of March — on top of 264 existing vacancies, according to the Austin Police Association.
Austin Police Department’s staffing is so bad, 911 calls are being redirected to the 311 non-emergency number because there aren’t enough cops to solve crimes.
“If you come home and find your home burglarized, calls like that are now going to 311,” said police union president Thomas Villarreal. “You’re not getting a police response to many property crimes if it’s not a violent crime that is currently ongoing.”
The beleaguered department has also pulled detectives from solving cases to act as patrol officers, Berry said.
Moody, a former watch commander, started working for the Austin Police Department in 1999 and says things have dramatically changed. In 2021, the city recorded a record 88 homicides and although that number decreased in 2022, the first six months of the year saw dramatic increases in the number of rapes, with 179, and almost 2,000 aggravated assaults, according to local news site KAXN.
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The problem in Texas is largely the same as in the US house and senate: The fake republicans and democrats are a majority. Too many clueless voters keep re-electing assistant democrats. The speakers of the Texas house are always Paul Ryan types.
It’s the capital of Texas for heavens sakes. Abbott needs to do more than make suggestions. A lot more.
Screw open-carry let’s do “in hand safety off” carry in some of these places.
Idaho and Florida have a reputation for being anti-woke. But I'm sure the Left is working on that.
Enjoy, Austin.
Abbott criticized the indictments of Austin police and said he might pardon them if they are convicted. Meanwhile the city coucil OKed payments for 2 people injured by bean bags fired at them. Some of the bean bags allegedly had expired. Lawyers for the officers said the bean bags were “unknowingly defective.”
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didn’t work. Oh well F em.
Those saying Austin police are too harsh should live in San Antonio and tell me they are better there.
Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity.
Idaho will definitely change in the coming decade. It won’t be a blue state any time soon, but it’s on the path largely through West Coast migration.
My man
My fav nick!
Guess the feds will have to take over, as planned.
I have a friend who lives downtown west side of 35, and he’s been mugged at gunpoint twice in the last 2 years.
A traffic-drenched nightmare of a city, it will be a smoking hole in the ground in 10 years.
Another Democrat run and ruined city. At least they are consistent in their destruction.
One factor is the college kids who come and stay forever. Easy to brainwash with nonsense, evidently.
I never blow it out my ass
I may be factually wrong around 1-2% and unlike 99% here I admit it
I’ve lived in both cities although far longer in Nashville which is contradictory considering I like Austin better
We leased 12,000 acres from the huge BF Goodrich ranch north of Burnet on the east side of the lake for over a decade 1971-1984
Beaver creek hunting camp on 2341
I dated a stripper at Foxys in 1981-82 man she was fine as grits
Student from Dallas
I know my way around there
The current metro area population of Austin in 2023 is 2,228,000, a 2.39% increase from 2022. The metro area population of Austin in 2022 was 2,176,000, a 2.79% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Austin in 2021 was 2,117,000, a 3.12% increase from 2020
In 2021, the population of the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metropolitan area in the United States was about 2.01 million people. This was a slight increase from the previous year, when the population was about two million people.
Actually I think I was wrong
Nashville is about same size now because nash metro is a lot more than Franklin and Nashville proper and Murfreesboro
Count Wilson and Dickson and cheatham and Maury and Robertson and Montgomery and sumner and it’s much higher than 2m prolly another half million minimum
They are streaming in mostly from California
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Then again if you take Austin fifty miles radius I’d bet it’s a bit larger reaching out to a Bastrop
Like I said they are close
Austin by a nose
Austin is weirder as they say
When. I was a kid my freak peeps went to San Francisco or Austin or maybe boulder
Now nearly all are more non pc conservative than average poster here
Make America Florida
And Elon Musk chose Austin over Tulsa. Said he couldn’t get his CA staff to relocate to Oklahoma. I’m sure the people in Oklahoma don’t want CA rugRATS.
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