Austin PD only responding to emergency calls

[Bmyers]

The department said it was trying to reduce coronavirus exposure risk for the public and sworn police officers, who will no longer be responding to those nonemergency calls, FOX 7 Austin reported.

"I feel like, in many areas, not just obviously in our sworn officers on the street, but with our property crime technicians in forensics and in our Austin 311 call center, we are experiencing staffing shortages, and, so, I think that I’m going to ask for a little bit of patience. Many times people do have to wait on hold when they’re calling 311 in order to make that report," the interim chief said.

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Crimes that could be considered nonemergencies include theft, suspicious person or vehicle, verbal disputes, prostitution, animal services, and burglary of a residence, business, or vehicle, police said.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-texas ... mergencies

[David]

IIRC, Austin is an extremely liberal city. Funny how liberal cities always seem to be the ones having an issue...

[JDH]

When your city council takes one third of the police department budget and re-allocates it to their pet liberal social programs...