The city didn’t make the decision. The Texas commission on law enforcement (TCLE) did.
The mission of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, as a regulatory State agency, is to establish and enforce standards to ensure that the people of Texas are served by highly trained and ethical law enforcement, corrections, and telecommunications personnel.
a regulatory State agency, (…) to establish and enforce standards to ensure that the people of Texas are served by highly trained and ethical law enforcement
Sounds like something Abbot and Paxton would never allow tbh. I’m sure at least one of them have tried to shut it down or at least completely defang it.
They replaced the city police with county police. The county will probably need to hire a few more officers. And what do you know - 5 people were just freed up in Henderson!
I’m sure governor Abbott will find a way to overrule this. He’ll probably use his “police budgets can only go up!” law or something.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-legislature-responds-to-austin-police-budget-cuts-set-to-punish-cities-that-defund-police/
The city didn’t make the decision. The Texas commission on law enforcement (TCLE) did.
Thanks for mentioning that. I did read the article, but that went totally over my head.
Sounds like something Abbot and Paxton would never allow tbh. I’m sure at least one of them have tried to shut it down or at least completely defang it.
They replaced the city police with county police. The county will probably need to hire a few more officers. And what do you know - 5 people were just freed up in Henderson!
Remove police… and replace with other police, until more police. So a nice moment of accountability but not a policy shift.
To be fair, if you live outside the city limits, the policing always defaults to the county sheriffs dept.
Oh stop.
Democrats leapt on the “omg they want to abolish all police forever!” Bandwagon as soon as they noticed an opportunity to abandon BLM.