The next line of argument would be that the police are underfunded and understaffed and that they need a larger budget. It's the same thing they do everywhere

The next line of argument would be that the police are underfunded and understaffed and that they need a larger budget. It's the same thing they do everywhere else. Here in Austin the police do absolutely nothing even when you have hard evidence of someone committing a crime, partially because the police union's realized they could use 'doing nothing' as a bargaining chip for larger budgets. It's maddening that you can simply not do the job you're paid to do and use that as a way to get paid more.