Holy Shit!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/04/17/you-will-not-believe-the-insane-proposals-this-city-is-considering-for-reimagining-public-safety-n1440685
ustin Mayor Steve Adler announced that he wanted to “reimagine” public safety in the city. If the use of the word “reimagine” pinged your “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” radar, you will soon know how right you are.
Thus far, “reimagining” public safety has gravely damaged it in Austin. It has amounted to cutting about $150 million from the Austin Police Department’s budget and standing idly by while violent crime rates have soared in the once peaceful and slightly weird city. Two APD cadet classes were also canceled.
Breaking Bad has come to Austin. By my last count, Austin police officers have been shot on duty four times already in 2021, and there have been 22 homicides, all while officers cannot leave the force fast enough. They’re retiring and resigning at a pace that would take about 10% off an already undermanned police department by the end of 2021. Travis County DA Jose Garza is focused more on prosecuting police officers for old, closed cases than prosecuting criminals. Each case he files against APD officers takes more officers off the street.
One might see all this as the Democratic Party working together in concert to crush the Austin Police Department and destroy public safety. Democrats control all of the offices involved in defunding and “reimagining.”
Adler et al. established a “reimagining” task force to come up with proposals. As you can see from the list of folks on that task force, it was packed from the start with one very dominant political perspective. It’s made up almost entirely of activists from the left and far left.
Task Force Community Members
Quincy Dunlap – Austin Area Urban League
Hailey Easley – Austin Asian Community Health Initiative
Emily Gerrick – Texas Fair Defense Project
Monica Guzmán – Go! Austin/Vamos! Austin (GAVA)
Priscilla Hale – allgo
Dawn Handley – Integral Care
Chris Harris – Texas Appleseed
David Johnson – Grassroots Leadership
Amanda Lewis – Survivor Justice Project
Nelson Linder – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Kathy Mitchell – Just Liberty
Chas Moore – Austin Justice Coalition
Cary Roberts – Greater Austin Crime Commission
Paula Rojas – Communities of Color United
Matt Simpson – American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Alicia Torres – ICE Fuera de Austin
Cate Graziani – Texas Harm Reduction Alliance
No business owners or leaders. No neighborhood watch captains. Only one of the members is even a crime victims’ advocate and one other, the Greater Austin Crime Commission (GACC), reports on crime trends, pending legislation, and the impact of the defunding across the city. The rest of the committee actually voted the GACC off the committee before adopting the proposals. The remaining are agenda-driven political activists from the left. The direction the proposals would take was baked in during selection, and further reinforced when they kicked GACC out.
The proposals they voted out of committee this past week head straight to the city council for consideration. They read like a note from Joker asking the Penguin for his thoughts on how to make Gotham their perfect crime lair.
defunding police to fund "immigrant" meaning illegal fucking aliens defense fund. WTF is going on?
maybe plan Z is the only option and it had to be that way.