trace: in just one week it may be hard are, even impossible to get a police officer to respond to your call in austin, texas, if it s not an emergency. they are blaming staffing shortages after the city council slashed millions of dollars from the police budget last year. fox news senior correspondent casey stiegel live for us this morning in dallas. good morning. good morning. the city of austin is still no doubt feeling the impacts of last year s controversial city council decision you just referred to which eliminated more than 21 million dollars from the police budget and diverted another $128 million to other city departments. that took away about a third of their total funding and just last month the austin city council voted to give that money back for the upcoming fiscal year after the state legislature just passed a bill