Lawless Thumbnails (3) There are not enough police in Austin to handle multiple major emergencies as a result of the 2020 movement to “ defund the police ,” according to a new documentary from The Daily Caller.
The documentary, called “ Lawless ,” examines the effects of the anti-police movement across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd in May 2020. One of the cities Daily Caller investigators examined was Austin, Texas, where the city council voted to cut the police budget by one third in August 2020 amid a wave of anti-police sentiment.
While Austin later voted to move funding back to the police department, it still faces massive staffing shortages and its chief of police resigned in August. As of September, Austin was at least 300 officers short of full staff.
“We are not a city that can handle parallel critical incidents,” Matt Mackowiak, co-founder of […]
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