So my question is, who's going to protect the criminals from the civilians?

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When seconds count, the police are only an on-line report away

When seconds count, the police are only an on-line report away

Police in Austin will stop responding to non-emergencies like theft and burglary

As of Friday, police will stop responding to non-emergencies. It’s “reimagining public safety,” according to the interim police chief, Joseph Chacon. The policy change was forced on police because of staffing shortages and recommendations from a task force set up to “reform” the police.

“Please understand, if somebody is in danger, we’re still going to send a marked unit and a uniformed officer to go handle it,” interim police chief Joseph Chacon explained Wednesday, according to KXAN-TV. “But for crimes that may have already happened and are now being reported, we are looking at alternative measures, and that’s what we’re working on now.”

In addition to theft and burglary, other “non-emergencies” include:

  • Animal services

  • Attempted theft of property

  • Crashes between vehicles that don’t require a tow, there are no injuries, both drivers have proof of insurance and a driver’s license and neither driver is impaired

  • Verbal disturbances

  • Prostitution

  • Suspicious person or vehicle

This is already happening in other Blue cities like Portland, OR, where, when my daughter called 911 to report a car being broken into while she spoke, she was told that the police no longer respond “to this kind of crime”. My prediction: as citizens realize that the police won’t protect them, they’ll protect themselves.

Related? Record gun sales, up 22% first six months of 2021.

UPDATE: “While You Were Away”

There are, of course, other methods of dealing with criminals that will also save the police the trouble of responding, methods that don’t necessarily require guns:

Two pit bulls fatally mauled a suspected intruder in Georgia, leaving the body on their owner’s front porch, authorities said.

Alex Binyam Abraha, 21, of Atlanta, was found early on Sept. 24 by the homeowner in Coweta County, where authorities said evidence shows he was inside the residence at some point, WAGA reported.

The homeowner, who was not publicly identified, returned to his Newnan residence last Friday morning and made the grisly find on his porch, investigators said. 

“[The] homeowner doesn’t know him, wasn’t expecting him, was not home at the time,” Investigator Toby Nix of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office told the station.