The Austin, Texas police department‘s headquarters building is adorned with a massive banner that reads “One Austin, Safer Together.” As of today, that is far from the truth…and safety is likely going to devolve into even more inexplicable chaos and anarchy thanks to the Austin City Council and Austin socialist Mayor Steve Adler.

Per the Statesman, “Austin City Council members on Thursday unanimously approved a $4.2 billion budget that includes about $150 million in planned cuts to Austin police, but only $20 million or so will be immediately removed from the department’s funding.”

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According to an anonymous poster who is believed to be an Austin cop: “The Austin City Council is moving forward with their defunding of the police. They voted to split up and move APD HQ staff out of APD Headquarters and disperse them to other city facilities throughout the city.” That has the appearance of “we’ll show you who’s boss” by throwing weight around placing (evicting) police executives in clandestine locations, in effect debasing (literally) Austin’s top cops and degrading them by reassigning command staff to “other” city-owned dwellings.

The Texas cop continued with his size-up: “They voted to move millions of dollars from the Police budget to social services and they plan to move tens of millions more,” exactly like Seattle and Los Angeles and New York City et al., all locales where Democrats breed contempt for law and order and welcome thuggery under the ugly, disheveled, leaky umbrella oddly called “peaceful protests.”

If these maneuvers weren’t in-your-face power-crazed backward thinking, “They further voted to recommend canceling any hiring and training of new officers for a year. While some may think a year isn’t a long time, keep in mind that year is only until hiring of new Officers is authorized again. Then you have to find/recruit them, conduct background investigations etc. The [police] academy itself is over 6 months long plus a 3 month Field Training Officer program before the new Officers can be released to work on their own. You’re looking at a minimum of 2 1/2-3 years before any new Police Officers would hit the streets in Austin,” the officer delineated.

He’s right, and likely being conservative since the variables pouring in nowadays indicate a plummeted interest in joining law enforcement—department are not only struggling with police recruitment but also retention, with the latter equating to droves of seasoned cops handing in their papers and hitting the road as civilians. 

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This article’s message is based on just one city’s version of its future and how it does not embrace policing. Grotesquely, that odd plague is spreading all across America, and cops are wrongly centered in the reticle of hateful diatribe and physical battering of police officials—not exactly encouraging.

Despite the fact that Austin PD is “already down about 300 Officers and another 400 officers are eligible to retire very soon,” the city council and Mayor Adler officiated the dismantling process for its police cadre. Hard to imagine what public safety among an Austin anti-cop climate is going to look like. One Facebook commenter filled in the blank: “Keeping Austin weird and unsafe!”