Austin's crime scenes have gotten uglier since the mayor cut the number of police

 The Texas Tribune:

Watch: Austin police chief weighs in on city’s deadliest year in decades, police reform and "defunding" the department 
Austin needs more police officers patrolling the streets, Police Chief Joseph Chacon told Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith in an interview this week.
Austin would not have enough police officers on the streets even if the city filled every vacant position on the force, Police Chief Joseph Chacon said this week in a wide-ranging interview with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith.

The question of whether Austin needs to boost the number of officers took center stage this year as the city, like many other major U.S. cities, experienced a record surge in homicides. In November, the city’s voters soundly rejected a move at the ballot box — known as Proposition A — that would have forced the city to hire hundreds of new police officers.

But Prop A’s defeat doesn’t mean that the city doesn’t need more police officers, Chacon said in Wednesday’s conversation. The Austin Police Department simply doesn’t have enough officers to quickly respond to high-priority calls like stabbings, shootings and assaults.

“To be clear, we don't have enough officers,” Chacon said. “I want more police officers.”
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Since the early 70's Austin has been plagued with too many liberals.  This vote tells you something about their mindset.  Meanwhile, the murder rate goes up and the minority community has the most victims. 

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