Austin, Texas chief of police Joseph Chacon announced his retirement on Monday, amid staffing shortages, the lack of a police union contract and an unsupportive city council.
slashed APD's budget by about $150 million
"We just continue to have a city council that doesn’t show its police officers that [it] cares about them," Villarreal said.Police enforcement block the streets in order to prevent abortion rights demonstrators from nearing the police station in Austin, Texas, June 25, 2022. - Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America on June 25 for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure.
Since defunding, Austin has seen crime increase, and this year, residents are waiting longer for police to come to their aid amid a shortage of staff at the 911 call center. It continued by saying,"Until City Hall rejects the poison of police abolitionists and their allied activists and ensures we have a strong, adequately staffed police department, public safety will continue to deteriorate."
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