Liberals making Austin safe for criminals

 Bryan Preston:

Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced that he wanted to “reimagine” public safety in the city. If the use of the word “reimagine” pinged your “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” radar, you will soon know how right you are.

Thus far, “reimagining” public safety has gravely damaged it in Austin. It has amounted to cutting about $150 million from the Austin Police Department’s budget and standing idly by while violent crime rates have soared in the once peaceful and slightly weird city. Two APD cadet classes were also canceled.

Breaking Bad has come to Austin. By my last count, Austin police officers have been shot on duty four times already in 2021, and there have been 22 homicides, all while officers cannot leave the force fast enough. They’re retiring and resigning at a pace that would take about 10% off an already undermanned police department by the end of 2021. Travis County DA Jose Garza is focused more on prosecuting police officers for old, closed cases than prosecuting criminals. Each case he files against APD officers takes more officers off the street.

One might see all this as the Democratic Party working together in concert to crush the Austin Police Department and destroy public safety. Democrats control all of the offices involved in defunding and “reimagining.”

Adler et al. established a “reimagining” task force to come up with proposals. As you can see from the list of folks on that task force, it was packed from the start with one very dominant political perspective. It’s made up almost entirely of activists from the left and far left.

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The proposals they voted out of committee this past week head straight to the city council for consideration. They read like a note from Joker asking the Penguin for his thoughts on how to make Gotham their perfect crime lair.

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None of the task force proposals would actually help deter crime in Austin. They would all in one way or another make the streets safer for gangs, drug dealers, and other criminals.

The proposals would amount to blinding and disarming the Austin Police Department while ensuring it cannot use overtime to fill in gaps in patrols that are worsening due to the ongoing predicted officer exodus.

Austin city government is desperately in need of adult supervision.  There are way too many naive liberals in power in that city. 

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