Austin's police union has launched a new podcast series that will feature conversations with officers sharing their experiences of working in defunded or disbanded units.
of its partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety. The partnership began in March after an increase in crime following the city council’s unanimous decision in August 2020 to slash the police department’s budget by about one-third. As of July 2023, the department is down by an estimated 500 officers. Podcast co-host Cpl. and APA chair Christopher Irwin challenged the notion that the department"got all this money back.
"People who are eligible or retire, people who are just fed up with activists controlling city council … rather than lose out on a large sum of money that they in their minds may never get back because they went without a contract, they decided to leave," Irwin says."That happens time and time again, every time we go without a contract or every time this defunding happens or these units are eliminated.
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