About the Austin City Council’s decision to cut $150 million from the Austin Police Department’s budget, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said:
“The unwarranted attack by the Austin mayor and city council on their police department’s budget is no more than a political haymaker driven by the pressures of cancel culture. Unfortunately, the targets of this ‘cancelling’ are the brave men and women who selflessly put their lives on the line to keep our families safe. The city council’s action to slash funding disregards the safety of our capital city, its citizens, and the many guests who frequent it. The City of Austin already struggles to combat widespread crime, violence and homelessness. In light of rising violent crime rates in many cities across the country as well the majority of Austinites opposing defunding police, the mayor and the city council should immediately reconsider this ill-advised effort at virtue signaling; which will endanger lives and property in Austin.”
Paxton is right and so are others condemning such but threats by many top politicians to have the DPS take over policing of Austin, at the expense of all of us non-Austin residents, is utterly wrong.
Deploying state police for the Capitol complex area is fine and already partly done but, providing policing for others parts of the Leftist run city is a terrible idea.
Austin’s liberals, and those everywhere, need to live with the horrors their political philosophy brings. Otherwise it is like rearing a child who is never allowed to feel the sting of his bad decisions; you get a spoiled immature adult who keeps making bad decisions – like being a Leftist and moving to places like Austin.
While popular, move for state to “police” Austin a terrible, costly idea
“The unwarranted attack by the Austin mayor and city council on their police department’s budget is no more than a political haymaker driven by the pressures of cancel culture. Unfortunately, the targets of this ‘cancelling’ are the brave men and women who selflessly put their lives on the line to keep our families safe. The city council’s action to slash funding disregards the safety of our capital city, its citizens, and the many guests who frequent it. The City of Austin already struggles to combat widespread crime, violence and homelessness. In light of rising violent crime rates in many cities across the country as well the majority of Austinites opposing defunding police, the mayor and the city council should immediately reconsider this ill-advised effort at virtue signaling; which will endanger lives and property in Austin.”
Paxton is right and so are others condemning such but threats by many top politicians to have the DPS take over policing of Austin, at the expense of all of us non-Austin residents, is utterly wrong.
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Deploying state police for the Capitol complex area is fine and already partly done but, providing policing for others parts of the Leftist run city is a terrible idea.
Austin’s liberals, and those everywhere, need to live with the horrors their political philosophy brings. Otherwise it is like rearing a child who is never allowed to feel the sting of his bad decisions; you get a spoiled immature adult who keeps making bad decisions – like being a Leftist and moving to places like Austin.