that prohibits the defunding of any texas law enforcement agency. however, it will take time before that cash is reinfused back into the system. so for now with a shortage of some 150 officers police say they will no longer answer non-emergency calls. we recognize the impact that this is going to have on so many across our departments. a lot of work went into making these decisions. i am confident that we as a department will again get through these difficult times. over the summer, many were criticizing the police response time to emergency calls. priority ones as they re known, the most urgent. on average it was taking officers up to nine minutes to get on scene. again, those are for true emergencies where there those precious minutes count. fox news reached out to the austin police department and also the police union for comment. they have yet to get us
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