Austin Mayor Asks DPS to Patrol City

[toddnjoyce]

The state’s top law enforcement agency will beef up its presence in Austin and help local police handle violent crime and traffic incidents, city and state officials said Monday.

The move — agreed upon by Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — is a dramatic response as the city’s police department struggles with persistent vacancies in its officer ranks, a problem in virtually every major police department in the country. Austin has also had problems with long response times to emergency calls.

State troopers will help Austin with police patrols as the city struggles with an officer shortage

Austin officials view the partnership as a stopgap measure as they try to fill the city’s more than 200 police vacancies.

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[angel71rs]

State should let this terd marinate in it's bowl of leftist failure. But it's the capital, so guess they can't do that.

 

[Fishkiller]

Defund the police they said. What could go wrong?

 

[TexasRedneck]

Hopefully, that agreement included a commitment to return the stolen funding. Wonder how hizzonor's office is gonna spin this one......

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Phuqem!

 

[Mills]

Let them stew in their own juices​

 

[Darkpriest667]

more DPS troopers in Austin means less speed traps. Frankly I like DPS but most of the time they are pulling people over and giving tickets in places like Temple (where the speed limit is 65 on I-35 instead of 75)

 

[popper]

Austin need a total replacement of city/county Gov.

 

[Ingramite]

It'd take Chuck Norris 15 minutes to straighten shit out

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Why would DPS agree to this?

Aren't they too underfunded and under staffed?

 

[Moonpie]

DPS should not.
Let Austin get what it voted for. Good and hard.

 

[Tex62]

DPS should not.
Let Austin get what it voted for. Good and hard.

Agreed.

Ironic as the lib gov wants the conservative gov to bail them out.


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[toddnjoyce]

DPS should not.
Let Austin get what it voted for. Good and hard.

Remember hotwheels got DP to push through withholding sales tax revenues from cities that defunded police. Also required an election for the same.

Wonder if those levers got pulled?

 

[seeker_two]

And why do I want my tax dollars to make up for Austin's stupidity?.....

 

[OneGunTX]

Austin is receiving the consequences of their choices. Until they learn from their mistakes and fire all of the Soros funded politicians!

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[easy rider]

WAIT! Didn't the people of Austin vote for the people that caused this?

Much like every other major city that is having a problem keeping a police force.

My view is, they got what they voted for.

 

[Vaquero]

Just go dark.

 

[cycleguy2300]

Defund the police they said. What could go wrong?

It's going to get worse, before it gets worse...


180+- officers will be at 23years of service and eligible for a full retirement within a month or maybe two along with another big group that will be at 20+ and eligible to "buy years of service" so they can retire too. Iirc, its about 230 officer that could just retire. Civil service may incentivice some new officers to leave as well...

In short its bad, and its going to keep getting worse for a while... we are only able to hire (hire, not graduate) about 1/3 of the officer we have leave... I think it will take 3-5 years to bring us steady ONCE the city decides to fix the problems they created, then another 5-7 to get where we need to be.

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[Sasquatch]

It's going to get worse, before it gets worse...


180+- officers will be at 23years of service and eligible for a full retirement within a month or maybe two along with another big group that will be at 20+ and eligible to "buy years of service" so they can retire too. Iirc, its about 230 officer that could just retire. Civil service may incentivice some new officers to leave as well...

In short its bad, and its going to keep getting worse for a while... we are only able to hire (hire, not graduate) about 1/3 of the officer we have leave... I think it will take 3-5 years to bring us steady ONCE the city decides to fix the problems they created, then another 5-7 to get where we need to be.

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As someone front line to that shit show - would you recommend someone looking to enter LE actually apply for APD, or run and go look elsewhere? Is there a likelihood that leadership of the PD and the city is going to unfuck the issues faced, or continue to deteriorate as more officers take their retirement and run?

 

[oldag]

Dang well better bill Austin for every single hour.