Austin Defunded Its Police. Texas Steps Up to Defend Them. – IOTW Report

Austin Defunded Its Police. Texas Steps Up to Defend Them.

PJM: A little less than a week ago, blue Austin made itself a laughingstock across the rest of Texas. The all-Democrat city council and its leftwing Mayor Steve Adler voted unanimously to chop $150 million out of the city’s $434 million dollar budget. That’s a cut of one third.

Austin did this as the WSJ revealed that the fast-growing city of about a million leads the nation in the percentage increase of homicides in 2020. Yes, its rate of increase is worse even than New York and Chicago.

Austin recently billed itself as safe. It can no longer honestly say that it is.

The cuts are draconian, and the nature of the cuts is nonsensical. For instance, the council voted to do away with the mounted unit. That unit has been very effective at establishing order when rioters illegally take over city streets, without having to resort to more kinetic means of clearing thoroughfares.

Austin’s former police chief, Art Acevedo, sounded off after the vote and warned of “consequences” for taking so many police officers off the streets and so many useful assets away from those officers who remain. He called on residents to rise up and oppose the cuts.

“If you don’t speak up now,” Acevedo said during an interview with the city’s CBS affiliate after the vote last week. “If you don’t speak up and absolutely set on fire those phone lines, the emails, the letters to your mayor and council, standby to standby. The economic engine that drives that great city, that provides the quality parks, the quality libraries, the quality life that we’ve enjoyed, I say we because I still have property there, is going to go by the wayside.” read more

15 Comments on Austin Defunded Its Police. Texas Steps Up to Defend Them.

  1. If the police are defunded there is nothing to stand in the way of the decent people there clearing the town of their riffraff and other undesirables to make it a good place to live again.

    An idea whose time has come.

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  2. Anon,
    I was thinking close to the same.
    Form a neighborhood/community armed watch.
    Someone breaks into an Austin-ite’s house, gets shot dead.
    Don’t bother to call the police, just dump the body into the street/trash bin.

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  3. What, you think Austin(Travis County) is a freakish part of Texas? Dallas County(Dallas), Bexar County(San Antonio), Harris County(Houston) are SOLID BLUE and now even Tarrant County is trending blue(Ft Worth!)

    Couple that with EVERY county along the Mex border solid blue and baby it’s demographically just a matter of time. The vast expanses of Texas like w Texas which I am intimately familiar with are sparsely populated and will be over whelmed by these densely populated urban areas.

    People are pouring into the DFW area alone at a 10,000/month clip. Factor that shit in and the future for Texas ain’t pretty.

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  4. If Abbott wants to protect Austin then the state should charge the city or withhold funding in the amount spent. This is completely unfair to the rest of us Texans paying property taxes and sales tax that fund this. Austin voted this insane mayor in who was first to shutdown SXSW to kick off all the closures and their demented city council that has approved homeless camping everywhere and this defunding. Screw them. If they want to live in a nightmare let them. Bailing out stupid needs to stop.

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  5. Oh, the left will be clamoring for those robot cops in 5,4,3…..

    You know, the robot cops that the globalists have $$$ in, the ones who are AI calable…who aren’t prejudiced. The ones in Millie Weaver’s documentary. Except those robots are white in the video.

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