George Soros Drops $1M To Stop City of Austin Hiring Police to Combat Crime

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George Soros Drops $1M To Stop City of Austin Hiring Police to Combat Rising Crime

October 18th, 2021

America-hating billionaire George Soros is stepping up his efforts to personally increase the violent crime rate in America's cities. Not content to just sponsor pro-crime DA's who release and/or fail to prosecute criminals, Soros is now pouring money into defund the police efforts. His latest target is reportedly Austin, Texas. Last year, Austin gleefully leapt on the defund the police bandwagon and cut its police budget by nearly a third. "Unexpectedly," violent crime skyrocketed to the point that the city recently told citizens not to call 911 unless they really really needed to. Austin Police Department has asked the public not to call 911 for "non-emergency situations" if "there is no immediate threat to life or property," "where crimes are no longer in progress," and "when the suspect(s) are no longer on scene or in sight." ...

A former Austin, Texas police officer who left the force amid the city's move to defund the police sent a scathing letter to the department rejecting their offer to hire him back. "I did not leave APD for money. No amount of money could make me return.... "The working environment within APD is one of the most dangerous in the nation," the former officer wrote. "Not because of the hazards each officer faces in the streets, but because of the senior leaders that have no formal professional development leader training, do not value each officer as a person, push all responsibility to the patrol officer level, and holds them to unrealistic expectations." As the city of Austin struggles under increased crime and angry citizen backlash, Soros poured $1M into efforts to stop them hiring more police. Left-wing billionaire George Soros is throwing at least a million dollars behind an effort to stop the hiring of hundreds of new police officers in Austin, Texas, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Hungarian-born political activist gave $500,000 through the Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center to a political action committee in opposition to a ballot initiative that forces the city to employ two police officers per 1,000 residents. Soros's donation, made on Oct. 12, is his second of the month and comes as Austin experiences a decades-high spike in violent crime. The city has seen at least 67 homicides this year, the highest since at least 1981. Aggravated assaults are also up at least 10 percent, following a 26 percent spike in 2020.[/left]

On Oct. 1, the Open Society Policy Center cut its first $500,000 check to Equity PAC, a Texas-based political organization that backs left-wing causes. The donation is the latest example of Soros's involvement in various left-wing causes at the local level. In 2020, Soros donated over $600,000 to a Texas-based left-wing group that backed the election of José Garza, who now serves as district attorney for Travis County, where Austin sits... Soros has spent more than $17 million on various local races, including donations to left-wing prosecutors and state legislators. Virtually every candidate backed by Soros and the Open Society Foundations has supported a dramatic reduction in or elimination of cash bail and other policies critics say lead to higher crime.

 

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