Defund the police is still having an impact. And not in a good way. Austin Police ask robbery victims to call 311 amid staffing shortage, crime crisis | Fox News
Austin Police in Texas asked residents to call 311 if they get robbed near an ATM over the weekend as the department struggles amid an increase in urban crime and staffing shortages.
And it isn't like crime is rare in the Liberal Utopia that is Austin, Texas.
The post comes as the Texas capital grapples with a rise in crime. Compared to 2020, Austin has had a 77% increase in auto thefts, an 18% increase in aggravated assaults and a 30% increase in murders.
Hat tip to Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog. Austin Police: “Got Robbed? Don’t Dial 911, We Don’t Have Enough Cops To Respond”.
The Austin City Council’s partial defunding of the police back in 2020 continues to hurt law-abiding Austinites. Continued understaffing has left APD unable to fulfill what were previously considered basic police functions. Case in point: APD now asks robbery victims not to call 911.
In one of the older links on Austin, Lawrence Person notes that Austin PD has not been responding to "non-emergency" calls since 2021 due to staffing issues. It is just hard to fathom how armed robbery has been downgraded to a non-emergency status.
And I thought that defunding the police (or the partial defunding they did in Austin) was supposed to make communities safer. That was the propaganda anyway. Doesn't seem to be working out too well in Austin.
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