Order in Austin?

This November, voters in Texas’s capital have a chance to reject the progressive agenda on public safety.

Michael Hendrix  October 25, 2021

It was a decision made in the dead of the night: on June 20, 2019, at 2 a.m., Austin’s city council legalized homeless camps and panhandling. A year later, in August 2020, the council voted to defund the city’s police budget by more than a third. These decisions sparked immediate consequences for public order—and eventually a fierce backlash from a not-so-silent majority that rejected the council’s progressive agenda on homelessness (though the effects of these policies linger in parts of the city).

This November, Austin voters will have another chance to vote in favor of restoring order. Pending the outcome of Proposition A, Austin could become one of the first major American cities to have its citizens vote to “refund” and restaff the police.

Restoring order will be an uphill battle. The council’s decision to allow homeless encampments had an abrupt impact on Austin. “We quickly saw a difference,” said Greg McCormack, executive director of Front Steps, a local homeless-services provider. Craig Staley, owner of local bodega chain Royal Blue Grocery, agreed: “They changed the world downtown in about three weeks.”

After having been flat for years, homelessness in Texas’s capital exploded. Homeless from other cities migrated across Texas to camp in public. The situation rapidly became unstainable—and deadly. Exposed to the elements and to each other, 10 percent of the city’s homeless died in 2020 alone, with substance abuse being the leading killer. The wave of death continued despite record sums of spending on homeless services: nearly $70 million this fiscal year, combined with over $200 million in federal funding. A study of public spending on the 250 “most expensive” homeless individuals in Travis County tallied a combined annual cost of $223,000 per person.........To Read More....

My Take - As you read this piece you begin to see a picture of insanity emerging.  The Mayor and nine city council members were against Proposition B, and there's apparently been a defund police movement that's been acted on by the city but dropping the police budget "from $434.5 million in 2019 to $292.2 million. The city council also cut three cadet classes and 150 officers from the budget", and of course this cities leftist leaders spread lies and misinformation about further changes. 

Result?  Filling the city with bums, druggies, criminals and cutting the police force substantially has resulted in......okay, get ready.....here it comes......are you ready for this shocker.  There's been more serious crime!  Wow!.....isn't that a shocker.....imagine that.......less police results in more crime........whodathunkit. 

• The questions everyone should be asking are these:
• What is the goal of these leftist politicians?
•  Why would any city elect people this insane?
  
• And while their proposition passed with by 58% to 42%, who in the world is this 42%?
• Are all these people fleeing the insanity in California bringing it to Texas?

 Houston:  We have a problem.