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Austin, Texas, Diverting Funds From Police to Transform Community
Loaded on May 15, 2021
by Edward Lyon
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2021, page 22
Filed under:
Cost of Prison Systems.
Location:
Texas.
by Ed Lyon
Despite being the capital of the nation’s largest Red state, Austin, Texas, is as liberally Blue as a city can be, proudly sporting the motto “KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD.” Whether weird or empathetic, Austin has made great strides toward diverting money from its police department to improve law ...
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