You Will Not Believe the INSANE
Proposals This City Is Considering
for 'Reimagining' Public Safety
PJ Media,
by
Bryan Preston
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/18/2021 12:45:30 PM
Austin 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
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/18/2021 12:58:48 PM (No. 758547)
Stupidity on parade. I wonder what the average IQ is for this bunch?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 4/18/2021 1:07:25 PM (No. 758554)
Satan is a lot of things, stupid isn’t one of them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/18/2021 1:10:16 PM (No. 758559)
In Austin they have a T shirt that say's Keep Austin Weird.
In Houston we have one that say's Keep Austin 170 Miles away from Me.
California's moving there. They may need more cops.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MorningStar 4/18/2021 1:15:06 PM (No. 758562)
Not convinced that Satan isn't STUPID!! He obviously didn't pass the SANCTITY test, now did he?! While those in Heaven had no trouble at all, according to Our Lord, since they remained steadfast!! Works for me. No one with any amount of minimal intelligence would deliberately want to go to Hell - for ALL ETERNITY!! Only self-hating masochists need apply.
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The real reason they've advocated for defunding the police, and allocate those funds to other government social programs is they wanted to use the transfer of funds scheme to bolster that funding, since they couldn't get people to simply increase their taxes to pay for those same programs, and fully expected Republicans to quickly push for additional funding to restore those funds.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/18/2021 1:37:13 PM (No. 758575)
They want to essentially ban the police from making any traffic stops in the future, unless the police are not armed. Since traffic stops are a very dangerous part of policing, because violent criminals are known to carry firearms to shoot police officers should they come to the attention of the police, why would any police officer put his or her life at risk by performing traffic stops while not armed?
If the above proposal become the law, why would people even bother to purchase a motor vehicle registration and license plates for their motor vehicles that the police would be prohibited from stopping while being driven on the public streets in a dangerous or reckless manner?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/18/2021 1:40:08 PM (No. 758578)
Austin is home to the University of Texas and a lot of prestigious companies. Will they move? My speculation is the policing that used to be done by the Austin police will be picked up by the state so every resident of Texas will have to foot the bill.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 4/18/2021 1:49:09 PM (No. 758584)
Once again, this is what would come out of a high school social studies class, i.e. proposals from people who know nothing about the real world. The problem here is that these proposals will be taken seriously In spite of the fact that it has been shown that not supporting the police increases crime. They will say that they can do it right with more money. Let’s see what happens when there are no more police to fight crime.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 4/18/2021 2:23:36 PM (No. 758619)
The Defund The Police movement is alive and well in the Democrat Party as much as the DC politicians are trying to distance themselves from it. I don’t know who they think they are pandering to since a solid majority of all races are against this. Most liberal run cities are already unlivable. Unfortunately this is causing an exodus to red cities and States that will be destroyed when they finish voting the same morons in.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 4/18/2021 3:45:49 PM (No. 758687)
Please do it. After a VERY short time, it will be a massive failure, lots of unnecessary blood will be spilled, and then we can PROVE how stupid these ideas are.
Meanwhile - I am happy to live many hundreds of miles away. If you live in Austin, prepare for very dangerous times.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GO3 4/18/2021 4:04:05 PM (No. 758711)
Has Abbott frozen their property taxes yet like he said he would? What’s that? Didn’t think so.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Speedy2 4/18/2021 5:46:17 PM (No. 758791)
Austin is going down the tubes. Liberal nonsense at work. I pitty the folks who will see their property values fall as a result of Austin leadership.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/18/2021 5:59:41 PM (No. 758811)
#7. Texas University is on the forefront of these politics. They have been liberal for longer than I can remember.
#11 Why should Abbott freeze their property taxes? Let them go up just like the rest of ours. The problems they cause don't stop at the Austin city limits, unfortunately.
It seems to me like capital cities everywhere tend to be stupidly liberal no matter what the rest of the state is like. I think capital cities and the metropolis around them should be kept out of state wide elections.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JrSample 4/18/2021 6:12:21 PM (No. 758822)
Austin is nothing like it was just 20 years ago. The large numbers of idiots who moved there ruined what attracted them to it. Landmark businesses that were Austin trademark establishments closed-down because of the high taxes. Overpasses have large numbers of bums living under them doing drugs, now that Adler is defunding the police the city will just become more of an insane asylum.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
nhveritas 4/18/2021 6:18:59 PM (No. 758828)
Typical liberals. This will exponentially increase the problem, but the leftist politicians/media will all feel good because they 'did something' and 'they care'. As faux dr. Jill says, kindness and hope is back!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/18/2021 8:14:42 PM (No. 758908)
"Reimagine" is a Leftist code word that means, Tear Down what is good and replace it with our COMMUNIST Ideas!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/18/2021 8:15:12 PM (No. 758909)
"Reimagine" is a Leftist code word that means, Tear Down what is good and replace it with our COMMUNIST Ideas!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/18/2021 8:15:56 PM (No. 758910)
"Reimagine" is a Leftist code word that means, Tear Down what is good and replace it with our COMMUNIST Ideas!
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