Bring on Austin’s police staffing debate: Proposal to hire 400-800 new cops would require budget tradeoffs the public won’t support
In Austin, the Republican-led group that ran a successful ballot initiative criminalizing homelessness has put another one on the ballot for November that would require the city to hire hundreds more police officers. Their main backers so far are the police unions, who’re salivating at the prospect of hundreds ofContinue Reading