After recent riots swept the nation and left behind a trail of burned cities, destroyed livelihoods, and murdered citizens, Austin City Council members are now pushing to significantly defund local…

…data that violent crime rose in the city. “Mayor [Steve] Adler has done nothing for the UT Austin students regarding safety,” McNew said. Now, with the council partially defunding APD…

AUSTIN — “You cannot solve a public safety crisis by creating another,” Corby Jastrow, president of the Greater Austin Crime Commission, told the Austin City Council on Thursday. After a…

…policy demands to elected city and county officials, most of which Derek Cohen, director of criminal justice reform organization Right on Crime, called “liberal claptrap” that falls short of real…

…the case might be,” said Derek Cohen, director of Texas Public Policy Foundation’s criminal justice reform campaign Right On Crime. “I think a lot of municipal leaders want to distance…

…the most heartbreaking aspects of the violence and destruction that erupted in Austin was the lack of leadership from Mayor Steve Adler and the rest of the Austin City Council…

…have lost their jobs in the past four weeks. In Austin alone, city officials project that 261,000 citizens—a quarter of all Austin workers—will lose their jobs during the coronavirus crisis….

…crime is indeed rising. According to the data, there is a 23 percent increase in homeless-to-homeless violent crime and a 6 percent increase in homeless-to-nonhomeless violent crime. “Mayor [Steve] Adler…

…the city came into clearer focus this month when the Austin Police Department released new data from 2018-2019, confirming the city’s violent crime is indeed rising. According to the data,…