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FOX 7 Discussion: Save Austin Now petition to hire more officers
FOX 7 Discussion: Save Austin Now petition to hire more officers
Save Austin Now co-founder Matt Mackowiak and Just Liberty executive director Scott Henson discuss a petition to increase police staffing at APD.
With a shortage of officers and a change in budget, this issue could become the new Prop B where residents vote against city council s actions.
Save Austin Now co-founder Matt Mackowiak and Just Liberty executive director Scott Henson join Mike Warren to discuss the latest effort to reverse City Council decisions.
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AUSTIN, Texas The temperature in Austin this week hit 91 degrees. After the city was blanketed with an early morning, hot mist on Wednesday, it felt more like 96 by mid-afternoon. Inside the state Capitol, where the thermostat hovers around a cool 70 degrees, Rep. Carl O. Sherman was contemplating the Day of Judgment. When Jesus returns, the pastor said, citing Scripture, he will embrace .
This weekend marks one year since thousands of protesters flooded the streets in downtown Austin and demanded a series of law-and-order reforms and budget changes, some of which they ended up getting.
While the local demonstrations mirrored racial justice protests in other cities after the death of George Floyd under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, local participants also had Austin-specific reasons to be there, as they pointed to concerns they d been voicing for years about the Austin Police Department.
Bubbling with anger and viewing the moment as a vehicle for transformation, they persuaded the City Council to change the Police Department s budget by cutting $21 million outright and setting aside an additional $129 million to be vetted for potential cuts down the road. Since then, $45 million of that larger amount has been cut by moving various departments and functions out of police control.