Cops In Austin Have Had ENOUGH: Texas City Goes Into Crisis Mode

Fox News reports that 40 officers turned in their resignation papers following that dispute.

Austin Retired Officers Association President Dennis Farris said the department is in "dire straits" after 150 officers reached out to the retirement board. Farris spoke with "Fox & Friends" when he made these comments.

Farris said: "It's not only about the money. It's about the respect and the lack of respect they're getting from this city council, less one council member,"

March 06, 2023

Members of the police force, both past and present, have sent out warnings about the situation within the Austin Police Department. According to a report by Fox News Digital, a big part of the issue is that the department had a lot of its funding revoked by liberal politicians in 2020. On top of that, there has been a lot of combat between the police department and the city council in recent years. The city council recently voted to get rid of a four-year contract they had already agreed to with the department. Now, they want to seek out a one-year contract with the police department, but the union for that police department did not agree to this.

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Fox News reports that the changes to the contract deal likely have a lot to do with pressure from anti-police forces within the city that want to see the long-term contracts scrapped until the residents of Austin have had the opportunity to review the specifics. There are a lot of activists interested in getting a bigger say in the specifics of the contract and other policing measures that they want to take to the ballot box.

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Farris said the following about the situation in the police department there now: "The police department really is in dire straits," and "There are shifts that are going out every day understaffed, sometimes just one officer and a sergeant, and sometimes just the sergeant showing up. So there are huge sections of the city that are going unpoliced on a regular basis."

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He added that the moves made by the city have "emboldened criminals" and made it easier for crime to run rampant in the city. He said: "When your political leaders in the city don't support the police department, the criminals understand that. And they figure, well, if the city is not going to back them, we can do what we want."