Over to you will will thanks Jed, while some cities are looking to slash funding for their police departments. Others are backing the Blue from North Carolina to Hawaii City Council officials are pushing for refund the police next year, in some cases bruceing their budgets by millions of dollars. Next guest says this will give officers the resources they desperately need. Joining us thought is the president of the Fort worth Police officers, Association, Manny Ramirez, thank you for being with us here today. I want to start out with a few facts. If we could lets focus on Austin, Texas Austin has become, I think, emblematic fascinating cities suffering from the highest rise in crime rates ones looking to cut their blements. Austin has cut almost a third from its budget, one hundred and fifty dollars million on a budget of four hundred and sixty four million being cut from Austins police department. No coincidence, Manny Austin tops the list of top fifteen cities of the largest change in homicides year over year.

Look at that year over year. Homicide rates help me understands this. Many will, you know absolutely whats going on right now: thats weak, indecisive leadership, folks that dont want to bear the burden of running a police department. What theyre doing is hurting the nation. They are hurting public safety in these cities we know Austin is not unique. Austin is just a microcosm and direct result of Portland of Seattle of these areas where that ideology has been able to creep in and they think that its okay to defund their police and make their communities less safe, and we know thats exactly the opposite of what these cities that are dealing with. Rising crime should do and its absolutely heart breaking, because the officers that are throughout working the street, they want nothing more than to be able to keep their citizens safe, and these week politicians are making it impossible. One of those politicians, Austin City manager, talked about the cuts in the police budget in Austin. Here is what he had to say. This budget takes us forward as a city. I have also been clear. We will

have to come back and make adjustments, not only because of the Covid 19 pandemic, but because of our desire to truly reimagine public safety, im, not sure anymore, what that means. Reimagine public safety yeah and I dont think they know what it means either, but overwhelmingly. We know that Americans want to be safe. We know that Americans want to feel secure and we are blessed in Fort Worth Texas that we have got citizens that just recently voted to refund our police department by a billion dollars over the next ten years, while authorize ago new sales tax. So we know that Americans out there american voters really do support public safety. They just dont have an outlet or a mouthpiece. What happens is at the lowest level of government? These elected officials are getting in place and they dont have the moral courage to stand up to the mob will seems to me. If you want a Reformed police department, you might need to refund that police.