Let's be real, some of those Austin police budget cuts look pretty good - I'm especially looking at $18 MILLION in traffic enforcement cuts, park police, lake patrol, mounted patrol, license plate readers.... Even the important stuff on that list might suffer from bloat and misuse, we're talking about a big city police department in the South here. This is a really good example of the left being politically effective, their vision might be nonsense and the outcome might be dogshit, but they targeted a perceived problem and attacked it head on. Whether or not they reinstate all of these budgets and more after a crime wave, it'll be on their terms, and they will use the chaos to shape policy more to their liking.
Meanwhile, conservative types don't typically dare to slash police budgets or audit law enforcement (especially in the South). Who cares if you have too many cops? Who cares if they're effective? Who cares if you're burning taxpayer money while providing only anarcho-tyranny to those same taxpayers in return? We love ARE POLICE, they cry! Muh thin blue line apparel! Police are natural conservatives (though somehow there's more studycunts, beaners, mystery wogs, and nigs every year) and it'd be a shame to effect positive change at the risk of pissing some fat sheriff off, only bad and useless aspects of something should ever be conserved (the real policy should be left to our liberal betters).
Have you ever seen how many idle cops there are in the South? You can't drive to the gas station without seeing one goldbricking on the side of the road, if they really need these cops to patrol the niggos then why are they always camped out giving tickets, or driving around the highway with their radar on? I used to live in a place that had a LOT of active duty cops per capita, but at least you had the impression they were doing something (to their benefit, they did spend a lot of time in the ghetto neighborhoods).