EXCLUSIVE: Exodus Underway as Record-Shattering Surge of Austin Police Officers Leave the Force

By Bryan Preston Apr 06, 2021

After the Austin city council voted unanimously to defund its police department by about one-third of its budget, in August 2020, many predicted that once the cuts kicked in a flood of officers would leave the force as soon as they could. The new district attorney’s policy of re-investigating police officers for closed cases is also expected to cause officers to resign or retire.  The city council’s cuts officially kicked in and have been in place for a few months.

PJ Media reports exclusively that APD is now suffering a huge surge of officer departures............At the same time, the city council’s cuts have forced the cancelation of police cadet classes. The department is losing experienced officers in droves and is unable to replace them with new officers.........“In Austin, Texas, the city council has fallen under the influence of hard-line anti-police activists,”.......... “They don’t reflect the mainstream in Austin but they have been very loud.”.............“For the first time in modern memory, the city negotiated a contract with the police union, only to have activists storm the city council meeting and demand the contract be turned down, and it was.”

Austin is “listening to people who want to change America and make it more like China,” Wilkison added. He warned strongly against Austin reverting to a “political police department” like it had before civil service reforms made hiring and promotion decisions based on merit rather than political patronage. “These are mistakes we don’t have to make"...............

My Take - This was sent to me by one of my correspondents, and based on the verbiage to a lot of others, with these comments:

This is what happens to voters who vote overwhelmingly for democrats to run their government Current city-council is 10-1 democrat and has been controlled by democrats for years. It's a state capitol and university town. Council decided to reduce funding for police department. Resignations and retirements at record levels follow. Public safety is starting to fray.

Democrat politicians are really stupid! Republican politicians are only marginally better, sometimes. But you can bet democrats will ruin your city, county, state, country. Don't let this happen to your city, county, state, country.

 

When a community rids itself of  their police force, crime will escalate.  That's history and that history is incontestable.  Eventually they will have to bring police back, but if these people remain in power good cops will not be come back, and good people will not apply.  

 

That leaves thugs and incompetents as hirees.  They will then be forced to hire people who are as corrupt and stupid as are they, and crime will not only continue, the cops will be a part of it.  And the few cops who want to do a good job will be isolated by the rest, and they will not survive, or they'll also leave.

 

That's also history that can't be denied.