The future of Austin: rampant theft, poop, homelessness and shuttered businesses

[Clay Media]

What "progress".

This makes my stomach upset. I may as well take a shit on the sidewalk like everyone else. May as well just steal what I want too.

[winn dixie]

The future is now

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Guess that's what happens when you get the Socialism you voted for. I wonder how much of it also has ties to defunding the police.

Nolte: Democrat-Run Austin at ‘Brink’ Due to Police ‘Staffing Collapse’
by John Nolte4 Mar 2024

Today’s heartwarming story of Democrats getting what they voted for takes us to Austin, Texas, where a police staffing crisis exploded the murder rate, and according to a report there were no cops at all in a section of the city on one Saturday in February.

“Austin, Texas residents are expressing outrage over police staffing shortages and longer 911-call response times in the aftermath of the city council’s vote to defund the department in 2020,” the New York Post reported.

It gets better…

“In February, a section of the city was notably left without a single police officer for a few hours on a Saturday due to the ongoing shortages,” the Post noted.

“Each year since 2017, we’ve lost more officers than we’ve hired,” Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock warned. “We had to gut our specialized units and force detectives to work backfill on patrol just to try and respond to 911 calls.”

Bullock added, “Our staffing has been set back at least 15 years, and at the same time, we’ve dealt with a population growth of over 250,000 new residents.”

Here’s the rub:

In 2020 following the Black Lives Matter riots, Austin’s city council voted unanimously to cut up to $150 million from its police department budget — about 34% of its current total — and reinvest the funds in other services. The following year, the Texas Legislature passed a law essentially forcing Austin to restore the funding, but the officer shortage persists.
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“What the Austin city council did was horrific to the community,” [Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Joe Gamaldi] told Fox News Digital.” There is no one left to fill these shortages because the city council treats officers like scum. Now, responses are over 10 minutes for emergency calls. Some districts are left without staff. City council should learn their lesson over violent crime. 2021 was the highest ever for recorded murders and, since then, the murder rate continues to stay close to that high and looks like 2024 will not be any better. People are dying over bad decisions.”
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Last year, the department was on the verge of a staffing collapse after 40 officers filed retirement papers following a 9-2 city council vote to scrap a four-year contract that the city had previously agreed to in principle and instead pursue a one-year contract that the police union’s board had rejected.

You see, these Austin idiots have cornered themselves. They can either 1) allow their city to implode or 2) admit they were wrong. The problem for Austin is that leftists never admit they are wrong. In their twisted minds, they are not wrong. Rising crime is the goal. Violence is the goal. Urban blight is the goal. Chronic homelessness, poverty, and drug abuse are the goals. It’s all laid out right here.

The dummy voters are in a similar spot. They hate us MAGAtards and would rather see their city go full shithole before handing us a “toldjaso.”

Pride is such an awful and insidious thing. The inability to admit you are wrong is a devastating handicap. But that’s what the voters will have to do: admit they were wrong and that we MAGAtards are right about supporting your police force and locking up violent criminals and three-time losers...

Winning?!?

[Jackie S]

Austin is a huge canker sore right in the middle of Texas.

[Yssup Rider]

Welcome back Clay!

We all know where the poop comes from, don't we!

I'll fetch my own drink and enjoy this thread.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do

Guess that's what happens when you get the Socialism you voted for. I wonder how much of it also has ties to defunding the police.

Nolte: Democrat-Run Austin at ‘Brink’ Due to Police ‘Staffing Collapse’
by John Nolte4 Mar 2024

Winning?!?

How about a link rather than a four year old post on Twitter? Just posting a story with a blue headline doesn't mean squiddley. Yet some think it does.

It's Breitbart, so maybe that's why you were careful not to source it.

MAGA mind games... hahahahahaha!

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

How about a link rather than a four year old post on Twitter? Just posting a story with a blue headline doesn't mean squiddley. Yet some think it does.

It's Breitbart, so maybe that's why you were careful not to source it.

MAGA mind games... hahahahahaha!

Those that do actually think may well think you thought the whole point was to find that link on the very top of the search returns list, but then they might also think that the whole point might just be to see how much coverage, i.e. pages of results, aka broad spectrum from multiple news sources, that simple act from 2020 has been festing ever since. Alas, not all think that way unfortunately.

[Lucas McCain]

This is what I mostly think of when I think of Austin: https://www.movetoaustin.org/blog/ma...ies-austin-tx/

It's not as fun as complaining about the issues that every city has, but if you talk about the bad about a city, IMO, you have to acknowledge the good as well... many people move to Austin for 6 figure high paying jobs for a reason.

Why do I already regret wasting my time posting this?

[txdot-guy]

The only thing wrong with Austin is the person in the Governor’s mansion.

[golferguy55]

Austin has become the liberal shithole cesspool of Texas.

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by Lucas McCain

... many people move to Austin for 6 figure high paying jobs for a reason. ..

So they can afford the housing therein.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

The only thing wrong with Austin is the person in the Governor’s mansion.

wrong

Originally Posted by golferguy55

Austin has become the liberal shithole cesspool of Texas.

exactly. Austin is Austin's problem Abbott has nothing to do with it. maybe he'll run for Mayor of Austin after his term as Governor is up and fix that liberal shithole.



bahahahaaa

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by Clay Media

What "progress".

This makes my stomach upset. I may as well take a shit on the sidewalk like everyone else. May as well just steal what I want too.

Originally Posted by Jackie S

Austin is a huge canker sore right in the middle of Texas.

Originally Posted by golferguy55

Austin has become the liberal shithole cesspool of Texas.

Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

exactly. Austin is Austin's problem Abbott has nothing to do with it. maybe he'll run for Mayor of Austin after his term as Governor is up and fix that liberal shithole.

bahahahaaa

Unless any of you actually live in Austin your opinion isn’t worth anything more than a post on an escort board. What does this really have to do with politics anyway except for the self gratification you get by insulting and owning the libs. If you guys want to have a circle jerk please do it elsewhere.

[winn dixie]

Austin is a cesspool wanna be san Francisco

[winn dixie]

Austin texas......
The place that worries about pets pooping in parks. But loves the rabid bat's that shit tons of guano straight down into the river.