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Originally Posted by Rachelina
In the first six months of 2020, 43% of closed misdemeanor cases and 39% of closed felony cases had been dismissed.
The most significant change occurred in the first six months of 2021, when County Attorney Delia Garza took office. About 77% of misdemeanor cases closed by Garza’s office were dismissed. In the same time frame, newly-elected District Attorney José Garza dismissed 23% of felony cases.
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Austin has always been a laughing stock among other cities in Texas because of the way it's always been mismanaged, and the one factor you've singled out is the least of it's flaws.
Austin's city budget has always been plundered, literally plubdered, by city employees by countless forms of scams. Very few of these every come to light because the local paper is a cheerleader for the city and never investigates these fiefdom scams.
But the obvious shortcomings of gross mismanagement are the almost total lack of highways, no planning for future water needs, vast sums spent on public transport few people use, vast sums spent to create bicycle lanes even the bicyle riders can't stand, and continuing integrity problems with the police that never seems to get better (how many rape kits do they claim to have accidently destroyed?).
In 1881 Austinites voted to be their City Marshall none other than Ben Thompson, the most vicious criminals of that era. He was a notorious killer, thief, and so forth whose only friends were other vicious criminals like King Fisher from Uvalde. As City Marshall he consolodated his control over local rackets.
Then in 1882 he travelled to San Antonio to gamble, and when he was banned from the Vaudeville Dance Hall for threatening other patrons he murdered the establishment's owner, Jack Harris, then took the train back to Austin as though nothing happened.
Thompson had beat the rap on murder cases before by intimidating jurors, and this time his friend King Fisher did the same, and so Thompson was acquitted at trial in San Antonio a year later.
So having enough, a group of San Antonio citizens formed a assassination team and invited Thompson back to San Antonio for peace talks. Thompson showed up with King Fisher by his side for backup, but both of them were gunned down in a hail of rifle fire from the assassination team. Thompson is buried today in the old cemetery east of I-35, and his family in Austin still claims he is a hero.
That was the beginning of Austin's bad reputation among other cities.
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