If cops would stop murdering people, than movements to reduce funding for police departments might not be taking place.

Austin will still have rules and laws. They will still have police, but their budget will be reduced by 1/3. That's a substantial cut but it's not the anarchy that some are making it out to be.

That said, I'm not necessarily in favor of this. I don't know if Austin's PD is over funded or under funded, I live to far away to know or care. I doubt funding is the problem that causes police to kill too many people. It's probably their standards or training that needs to be changed.

If cops would stop murdering people, than movements to reduce funding for police departments might not be taking place.

The Austin Retired Police Union guy was on the radio this morning. He stated that no new recruit class will start under this budget until late 2021 or even into 2022. Then its 8 months of class, then the ride along time, which puts the new recruits out on their own into 2023. At the current rate of retirement, the City of Austin will have a 400 officer reduction, they were already 150 officers short before this came to head. Add to that the officers that are leaving to get out of the Toxic environment, the City of Austin in a very short amount of time may have the police force equivalent of the 1990's. There were 15 officers that left this week alone, pre-retirement age.

Exactly. This is the result of slashing the police budget. The next domino to fall will be an increase in crime.

Either those calling for budget cuts to police are too obtuse to see this as the obvious result, or they’re promoting slashing of the budget to fund social workers because they want this result. I don’t know which is worse, honestly.

Exactly. This is the result of slashing the police budget. The next domino to fall will be an increase in crime.

Either those calling for budget cuts to police are too obtuse to see this as the obvious result, or they’re promoting slashing of the budget to fund social workers because they want this result. I don’t know which is worse, honestly.

Did you have any issue with Obama publicly convicting police that were involved in shootings BEFORE THE FACTS were established? Do I need to give you a history lesson to educate you about the times he instigated hatred towards the police by convicting them in the court of public opinion? As a university professor, do you have the ability to actually look at both sides of an issue? Obama did more to instigate hatred of the police than any single incident.

If professors would stop sexually preying on young girls, giving them cocaine, giving them good grades to sleep with them, encouraging boys to become girls, taking salaries to sit in front of a class and regurgitate the radical left agenda to "transform America" into Obama's idea of a utopia, then maybe university professors would not be such a despicable group of useless overpaid lazy self indulging narcissistic snowflakes that think being woke is worshiping Obama.

You woke up and became a puppet.

To add to the insanity, Austin will vote on a new mass transit project. First vote is for 6 to 8 Billion to build light rail, but the initial estimates are that 12 to 15 Billion is what it will take to actually see the project through. No wording on the ballot that I have seen that even mentions the maintenance cost once in operation.

My daughter in law and family are visiting this weekend from Norman, OK. Norman city council has voted to defund the police department and the citizens are now petitioning for a recall election for some of the council and the mayor. Now from what I understand, Norman has not had a bad experience with police, they just want to be considered as “woke” as LA, Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis. Little ole Norman, OK, the “woke” capital of Oklahoma.