(Natural News) Ever since the Austin City Council voted unanimously back in August to cut the budget of the city’s police department by roughly a third, officers throughout the Texas capital city have been quitting in record numbers. Austin’s new district attorney has also implemented a policy allowing for police officers suspected of engaging in […]

(Natural News) A Texas county is asking Gov. Greg Abbott to send in state troopers after the Austin city council slashed around $150 million off the budget of its police department. County Judge Bill Gravell Jr. of Williamson County, which covers part of Austin, expressed his concern that recent budget cuts by the Austin city council placed officers in the […]

(Natural News) Staunch Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that cities that cut their police budgets will have their property taxes frozen. The move comes after Austin recently defunded its police department in a misguided attempt to protest against alleged police brutality. On Tuesday, August 18, Abbott outlined a legislative proposal that will discourage cities from cutting […]

(Natural News) The Austin City Council has passed the city’s budget, and with it a proposal to defund the police by slashing $150 million from the Austin Police Department (APD). This move comes after intense pressure from the city’s chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Austin City Council, while officially a nonpartisan institution, is completely […]

(Natural News) An Austin bicycle shop owned by disgraced doper and cheater Lance Armstrong is refusing to sell any more bikes to the Austin Police Department (APD) because of how the department is treating the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. According to general manager Will Black, all of the employees at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop […]