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Austin police face cuts but ignore obvious savings

The City of Austin is looking at budget cuts to public safety items, the Austin Statesman reports, including a proposed $4.7 million slashed from the police department. Predictably, police union officials "predict that response times would increase and that crime rates would surge as the result of further cuts." However, I still maintain the Austin Police Department, in particular, can save taxpayers quite a bit of money while actually increasing police coverage - for starters, by implementing the ideas discussed in this recent Grits post.

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).