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June 12, 2020 3:30 PM
Former Sheriff Keel: Remove Austin City Council authority over APD
Former Travis County Sheriff Terry Keel says to the Governor, lawmakers, and the people of the State of Texas: “Rescue Austin and APD from the Austin City Council before it is too late”
The Texas
Legislature should enact legislation removing Austin’s city council
entirely from governance of the Austin Police Department and
instead reassign APD – intact – as a stand-alone division within the Texas
Department of Public Safety.
The terms of the Texas
Constitution would allow for this as a simple legislative act. The
Legislature should concurrently remove from the city a commensurate fraction of
the city’s sales tax revenue as the funding mechanism for this new division of
DPS.
In the past couple of
years, Austin has devolved at an alarming rate into a haven for homelessness
and petty crime. It has not been by chance, but instead by misguided policies
of Austin’s mayor and city council intentionally imposed to the detriment of
the public’s health and safety.
By Terry Keel
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