Another democrat-run American city heading for chaos.
Austin, Texas hasn’t had a republican mayor for over two decades.
During 2020, during the height of the “St. George” BLM-led protests and the Defund the Police movement, the Austin City Council “cut or reallocated a higher percentage of money from the police budget than any of nearly two dozen other cities nationally that significantly altered law enforcement funding at the time.”
Austin cut $150 million from their police budget. How’d that work out for the citizens of Austin? From the NY Post: “Compared to 2020, Austin has had a 77% increase in auto thefts, an 18% increase in aggravated assaults, and a 30% increase in murders.”
The Austin Police Department has also lost 800+ officers since 2017. Although the police budget has since been refunded, mass retirements and the slashing of cadet classes caused a police shortage where the department is hundreds of officers short.
Here’s the result of the elected bureaucrats actions (from the NY Post):
Short-staffed Austin police urge robbery victims not to call 911 as crime ravages city
From the story:
“The Austin Police Department posted a graphic in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, to urge residents to call 311 or make an online report if they’re robbed – 311 is a number usually used for non-emergency requests, as opposed to 911.
“Even if you are cautious & follow all the safety advice, you may still become the unfortunate victim of a robbery,” the Austin Police Department wrote on X.”
Read the whole story here.
Austin became a blue city that many attribute to the presence of a university and the influx of left-leaning high-tech workers from the two coasts. Their votes destroyed the likes of Seattle, San Francisco and New York. They didn’t learn an obvious lesson:
DCG
It is profoundly sad when “outsiders” can move in bringing their leftists ideology with them, and then they proceed to outvote those who have lived their for decades
I honestly think its all part of their plan to take over all the red states. If you think about it they have enough people in Cal. and NYC to do it and look how many are fleeing the cesspools of Sodom and Gomorrah now the numbers are alarming.
And they think they are escaping to a better haven only to bring their stupid ideology to our area. Once there are enough of them they out vote us. 🙁
Maybe we should start our own indoctrination of the left using their own tactics. Lord save us from the fools who think they know more than you.
Liberals are brain dead.