APD Chief Joseph Chacon portrayed the DPS partnership as an unqualified success, but offered little proof.
portrayed the partnership as an unqualified success, saying that the presence of DPS officers reduced serious car wrecks along I-35 and gun-related crime. “I did consider it a success,” Chacon told Council Member. “And what success, to me, looks like is, we are having a decrease in the number of calls for services as well as violent crime reductions.”
For example, with traffic collisions, Kringen shared slides showing that the average number of car crashes in the city had decreased since the partnership began. But the chart supposedly illustrating this finding is just a bunch of dots plotted on a graph, which doesn’t even include dates or the number of crashes represented by each dot.
At any rate, APD’s claims were forgotten during the public comment portion of the meeting, with speaker after speaker expressing the fear that the city was descending into lawlessness. Many reported seeing fewer patrol cars, described exceedingly long response times after 911 calls, and said their neighborhoods were less safe. A group of Asian Americans said robberies were surging in their north Austin communities. Lifelong Austinites, pastors, and business owners said the city had changed.
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