I’m willing to help find out.

They probably know his “rap name” but not his real name.

Allocating less money… defunding.

So Hilary Ronen is a boot locker too, right?

Taking officers off the streets (APD has fewer sworn officers today in actual numbers an in terms of officers per 1000 people) has resulted in increase operational burden, meaning longer waits for critical calls and deferment of non-critical calls to other departments (which I support).

https://www.austinmonitor.com/data-graphic/austin-police-department-budget-2012-2022

>During the 2020-21 budget process, City Council cut $31.5 million from APD’s budget, citing the protests and “community outcry against the disproportionate impact of police violence on Black Americans, Latinx Americans and other non-white ethnic communities,” according to the approved budget.
The following year, however, Council members approved a record-high APD budget – more than $443 million.

What this doesn't say, though, is that the operational budget was still cut and the increase in overall Police Budget was because several other operations that were moved out of APD were then merged back into APD and/or expanded the next year... like the combined city dispatch center, additional calltaker support, etc.

Austin, today, has fewer sworn officers on the streets but also a higher response times to priority calls, than previously, indicating it's not keeping up with demand despite taking street officers off of nonviolent property crime calls. A significant chunk of that budget increase was in non-sworn positions and 311 calltakers to deal with those issues, where APD issues a case number over the phone for non-violent property crimes (and never follows up).

You seem to not understand capex vs. opex. Equipment is capex. Officers are opex. When budget cuts happen, both get cut. And if you require additional positions that aren't sworn officers, that reduces opex spend, meaning fewer officers.

You and I likely agree about the over-militarization of police and what that's done to their relationship with the community, their focus, etc. We likely also celebrate the recent Texas court decision that forced McKinney PD to pay for SWAT damages to property. Accountability is key... but lowering the budgets when the vast majority of budget goes to sworn personnel results in fewer personnel on the ground, resulting in more harm before they get there and harsher response when they do because situations are more out of control.

You realize those are off duty jobs, right?

It’s meant fewer police in every major city that reduced budgets.

/r/leopardsatemyface

Which meant… fewer police.

And this, folks, is city government at work.

Of course.

Your words:

>Tell me you've never taken a biology class that explains how the clitoris is like an iceberg

I did what you asked.

I'm not arguing the biology. I'm arguing the descriptive context. None of my biology courses have ever described it as an iceberg.

I’ve never taken a biology class that likens the clitoris to an iceberg.

You seemed confused.

All of the government’s money comes from its people, not .1%.

You said .1%. I said “all.”

All of the government money comes from its citizens.

Nothing is “paid for by the government.” It’s all paid for by the citizens, collectively.