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If You Plan to Visit Texas, Know That One City Has Defunded the Police

Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP

The Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA) created billboards warning visitors that they would be entering Austin at their own risk. The billboards sit along I-35 and were created after the Austin City Council voted to defund the police. 

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According to TMPA, the billboards were designed "to raise public awareness that Austin is a defunded city."

"This reckless act, a political stunt by the city council pandering to the radical left, will do nothing but endanger the people of Austin," the organization said in a statement posted to Facebook. "As the largest police association in Texas, it is our duty and responsibility to stand up for the brave men and woman of the APD, as well as the other law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction within the city limits which will have less of APDs resources to depend on, and to raise public awareness of the dangers of defunding not just Austin, but any city across the U.S."

Both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) tweeted their support for the move.

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Abbott said he was contemplating moving the Austin Police Department under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Public Safety. This would be one way of addressing the city council's decision to defund the police.

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