It’s obvious that the current Austin City Council hates the Austin Police Department, and will do anything they think the can get away with to strip it of money and power. The most recent example: They’re stripping 911 funding from the police to hand it over to a newly created department:
In continuing to restructure the Austin Police Department, the City Council on Thursday voted to move 911 communications and several other services out of police control and into other city departments.
The total funding to be transferred out of the Police Department’s budget will be about $33.3 million — much of it due to 284.5 full-time positions moving to other city departments.
The decision builds on the council’s work during last year’s budget process when it cut or reallocated $150 million from the Police Department’s budget — one-third of the entire budget. The money removed Thursday came from funds that were set aside to explore shifting roles assigned to police to other city departments.
Why strip money from a functioning 911 dispatch system? Obviously, because the current employees support the police department, and lack of control over it means it can’t be staffed with leftwing cronies, making it much harder to rake off the graft and embezzlement. The “efficiencies” the Austin City Council claims the move to an “Emergency Communications Department” will bring is efficiently siphoning taxpayer money from the causes for which it is earmarked and into the hands of the hard left. But don’t think the crazy stops there:
Thursday’s vote followed a presentation earlier in the week from a community task force assembled by City Manager Spencer Cronk’s office to consider ways to improve public safety.
The recommendations included removing various line items in the Police Department’s budget and investing them in low-income communities through things such as health care access, food, housing and sex worker outreach services.
Some of the more extreme recommendations came from a four-person working group over patrol and surveillance. They included removing all deadly firearms from police officers and putting an end to new cadet classes. By eliminating neighborhood-based policing, the working group said the city would save $210 million that could be reinvested in communities of color.
“Any City Council member who supports that should be fired,” [Austin Police Association President Ken] Casady said. “It’s crazy town. Just by reading this one recommendation this committee has lost all credibility.”
Removing firearms from police and giving money to whores: Your Austin City Council at work.
Tags: 911, Austin, Austin City Council, Austin Police Department, Crime, Democrats, fraud, police, Spencer Cronk, Steve Adler
“They” voted for it….and “They” think it’s a good idea…. Until “They” manage to live through an ADW.
Perhaps we can get the virtue signalers to DOX themselves… What could go wrong? Ask the Mayor of Portland.
We can all rejoice in the response time of this new department, especially when they respond to the snowflakes. It will solve many of Austin’s problems through natural and unnatural selection.
A message to the Austin PD members…RESIGN EN MASS…NOW…they hate you and think they can live without you…
To be fair, I see no problem with giving money to whores.
As someone who has spent 25 plus years in a 911 center. And watched this happen in in both directions. The result is for more political control over the 911 center. As it removes it from the police chain of command. The lack of trust between the two will become increasingly obvious
I have worked in another state. And many state legislatures have funding/liability rules about these sort of changes. Regardless of the Austin city council’s choice. It may still get quashed
If you can…..project into the future what happens when “they” finally get “their” way……
1) Do you really think that some snowflake social worker is going to ‘rassle a chemically high person? Those social workers will quit in droves once they find out how hard it really is.
2) If there is no policing per say; that leaves a huge vacuum in the “politeness” of societies “disadvantaged” and there will be a clambering for “something to be done” by the polite ones…….and guess who will step in
3) https://www.muslimcps.org/….I bet they already have the patches made to identify themselves as Austins new order
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