The city of Austin, TX, has turned into a cesspool.
Shamefully, the most conservative state in the country has a capital city that Democrats run.
After taking millions away from the local PD, crime is up and morale is down, and now they do not even have enough officers to patrol the streets.
Morale is Low
In 2020, one of the top Dems in the city, who is now running for Congress, celebrated stripping millions from the city’s police department…
We did it!! Austin City Council just reduced APD's budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community's safety and well-being. Tens of thousands of you have called, emailed, and testified. You made the impossible into a reality. #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/trrYSDEOK6
— Greg Casar (@GregCasar) August 13, 2020
Now, Austin is coming off a year where it set a record for homicides, but I guess that has nothing to do with removing police funding.
It has gotten so bad, the city cannot even send police officers on non-emergency calls.
One officer stated, “Mayor and City Council seems to have no idea how much their decisions have negatively impacted APD and the citizens of Austin.
“Employee morale among sworn staff is so low.”
Another officer stated, “Everybody who keeps getting elected here is just further to the left every time, it’s gone from more passively anti-police to, what you’ve really seen since 2020, is just overtly anti-police.
“I think that has been a big tipping point for a lot of people and we’ve just had enough.”
The sad reality is that Casar will probably end up getting elected to Congress, yet he was one of the architects of the ruination of the city.
Source: Fox News
