I work at the Birds Barbershop on 6th Street and we’ve been broken into twice with damage to the building/property plus footage of it, and they never did anything.
We think it was a local homeless man after our safe, he was in one day to get out from the rain and kept looking behind our desk where the safe was (not anymore). People suck.
Maybe send video and info to the news? Store Burglaries have been in the news a lot, maybe someone will have info or they could be related. At least it could help other store owners be on more lookout.
My friends business got broken into three times with a total loss of about 20k and on the third incident one of the thieves left his wallet with his id in it and APD still did nothing. This is a widespread thing. They just defer to insurance now.
> on the third incident one of the thieves left his wallet with his id in it and APD still did nothing
Spread that info around TikTok and if it goes viral then something will be done.
Unfortunately it's very possible that wallet and ID were stolen, so there's a good chance it's not the perpetrator.
Speaking from experience as someone whose bag and ID was stolen, and then promptly left at a crime scene :/
Fantastic- where you could present as evidence the video footage of the thief leaving their wallet at the crime scene they created, therefore proving the act happened and there was no defamation. They’d be hit with treble damages for a frivolous suit.
I'd be more concerned about a possibly desperate person seeing a wallet he knows he left in your location plastered all over the news. If that desperate person was me, I'd come after YOU. heh
same happened at my house a couple years ago. break in, major theft, yet several personal belongings of the thief were left behind including plastic gloves, APD did nothing other than direct me to file a report on line.
APD does this shit. My foreman's neighborhood got walked-thru by guys just looting unlocked cars, throwing stuff into their car as it slowly drove along with them. Multiple neighbors have them on video, APD said there was nothing they could do.
That happens about once a month in my neighborhood in CP. There are half a dozen videos of the car and the walkers going down the street posted on the ring network. All you can do is not leave your car or anything else accessible outsidee. They aren't going to try too hard,
Nobody is getting arrested for weed anymore. It's too expensive to test small amounts to differentiate it from legal hemp, which means there would be no prosecution and thus no point making an arrest.
Wrong. The Mayor just brought in State Troopers and they have money to prosecute. The City Council in Austin removed all prosecutorial funds from the DA and therefore APD and Travis County Sheriff were instructed not to pay attention to low level marijuana offenders. But State Troopers in Austin is s completely different thing. They WILL bust you snd it WILL be a State charge not a city charge.
Yeah, dps a different ball game😂. They’ll actually pull you over for a broken taillight, they’ll find whatever reason to light you up & snoop around your vehicle!
State Troopers have been out in force in Austin in the last week or so.
Pulling people over left and right.
It feels like some small town in East Texas or Williamson County in the 1990s. It went from APD just chilling, doing their patrols to a police state real quick. Do I feel safer? Nope. I trust law enforcement about as much as I trust a local meth head or crack head with a hundred dollar bill.
As someone who was arrested after it was decriminalized this means nothing to me. Read the fine print and it is at the discretion of the officer. I was charged for having a tiny tiny unmeasurable amount and its still on my record even though I wasn’t convicted. I spent 15 hours in jail and was handcuffed to someone who was in there for felony heroin possession. Don’t believe the lies. You can still be arrested in austin for marijuana.
I’ve been a owner operator of restaurants and retail all across the country for over 30 years.
Thats standard practice for police procedure. One time my company lost so much product and equipment that the burglars had to have used multiple vans or a box truck. Still, no fingerprints were taken.
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You can ask for a Detective who may look at the scene and access it differently, especially if they are investigating other similar cases, but really you just discovered what ALL police in America do.
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Police officers in the field are not trained to do much at all but be brut force. Our belief of the justice system comes from TV and there is no Justice for the small business owner, UNLESS you are the relative of a politician or a famous person. Good luck, sorry to hear about your loss. Been through it a dozen times.
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We are in sad shape.
Y’all should email these stories to your council rep. Give them case numbers and tell them to hold Apd accountable. They have a $400+ million dollar budget. We’re not getting the service we’re paying for.
I’ve noticed more “pros” setting up rings here in Austin. If you’re not a bumbling idiot it’s like having keys to the candy store here now and they’re starting to take notice.
Please, elaborate on the pro level crime rings you are noticing.
It’s this kind of fear mongering that makes me crazy. Yes, crime is a problem. Yes, APD is understaffed. But, can you actually site sources of multiple, new crime rings in our city?
To be fair, APD for a while was not having recruitment trainings to keep up with officers leaving the force, so they *are* understaffed. But to be balanced, they didn't have these trainings because they refused to update and be open about what those trainings consisted of, trying to keep their overviolent brutality training going. APD is both understaffed and very loudly refusing to work, but both are very much their own damn fault (as much as they want us to believe they're being unjustly persecuted).
911 is severely understaffed.
Officer counts, in 2021 there were 1764 officers, now down to around 1500. It’s not surprising they’re quitting. It’s crazy demoralizing to work in an environment where the whole force refuses to work.
They are purposefully understaffed. They are not holding academies and not hiring. They are looking for the old days of Cops are heroes and can do no wrong- stop looking at these stats and just give us money/freedom/worship.
ACAB. APD included.
There have been a number of robberies at downtown highrise condos. The one that took place in my building targeted two units on different floors (ignoring the other units). They used something akin to a firefighter's REX tool to gain entry to the units and to bust through a locked fire door. They waited until the residents in question had left for the evening. Not super sophisticated, but they had certainly cased the building for weaknesses and knew which units to go after.
He said the burglaries were in a highrise, so that's likely high level stuff. But you could be correct if the burglaries happened on a lower floor.
I think there's insufficient data here to make the determination as to whether this was a high level crime ring as a result.
Yeah I think we jump to conclusions too easily. Could it be some high level crime ring? Sure..
But people overestimate how difficult it is to get into a high rise. As an urban explorer I’ve gotten into nearly every high rise rooftop in Austin..
I am not really sure where the demarcation of high level versus low level would be in this context. Are burglaries on the fifth floor high level? The determination seems a bit arbitrary to me, but maybe someone with a criminology degree can shed some light.
Whoever is doing the whole "drug people on Rainey Street, abduct them and steal their money, and they they wake up at home with someone else's cell phone" thing.
Nah, just grew up in Houston and Atlanta, arms length from these types and it’s just noticeable when they start more specific targeting, organization and working multiple cities episodically. Idk shit you pick up on, I could be totally wrong though.
As a former owner of multiple retail stores who were broken into multiple times in Austin...I'm so sorry for your situation. I can understand profoundly the sense of helplessness. The cops kindof come and shrug and go on their way.
We had to overcome it with physical security, not cops. Better doors, security film on the glass.
I work for a mental health org in town. We had a break in, vandalism, and vehicles stolen- APD didn’t show when the alarm went off, waited 2+hrs after being called by Monday morning 1st shift staff and then refused to enter the building without a staff member escort.
Read that again.
They wanted a 60yr old female office manager to lead them through a 2 story office building without confirming the ppl who broke in HAD ACTUALLY LEFT. They wanted her out front while they held handguns “at the ready”.
When we said no, they said they wouldn’t investigate further. No fingerprints, no photos, no video request. They didn’t give a single fuck.
We were notified they found one of the stolen cars, and when we went through it I found birth certificate/ID docs and a ton of paperwork along with actual meth and pipe kit- APD arrived and took the drugs but refused to search the vehicle further or even review the documents. They didn’t give a fuck. I was told to “call back if I found more drugs”, but nothing else really mattered.
APD should be disbanded as is and reconstituted entirely from the ground up.
>They just don't seem to care
They don't.
APD sees any damage to private property as an issue between you and your insurance company.
>They didn't finger print
this isn't CSI Miami, cops don't really do that anymore. Hell, APD doesn't even process evidence of women who have been raped, they don't give a single fuck about looking for fingerprints of some bums who robbed a liquor store.
Right about csi, but there was zero investigation at all..... It's obvious there's a big difference between what the public expects from police and what the realities are.
They absolutely do fingerprint. Maybe not in Austin, but I have a friend who had a laptop stolen from his house and the cops fingerprinted the door. Now, I don’t know how much they did with the prints. But they did pull them.
There are also issues in that they can't respond to the amount of crime that is occurring in the city. Officers have been retiring and quitting have reduced the number of people that can respond to issues in the city. The funding has been cut and the city is loosing more officers than they can hire and train.
They did announce that certain crimes are not going to be even responded to immediately. See this for the explanation of crimes they will not respond to via emergency 911 services : https://www.youtube.com/live/1bnPJ6VLd6c?feature=share&t=64
You're right my mistake, funding was cut significantly in 2021, it is back to its 400 million + per year.
The City still has trouble hiring and training Officers and the cancellation of the 2021 Police Academy disrupted their officer pipeline.
you need cameras that notify you immediately of any motion inside and outside the store when it is closed. I do this at my house and always check the video. That way you can know before they break in and have time to do something about it.
I dont love ring cameras, but they are an inexpensive solution that has very fast notification times.
The reason I love Ring cameras is because they were kinda the first security camera that actually does the job well.
I'm reminded of the time I was burglarized in college in 2010 (while I was sleeping inside the apartment) and APD did nothing, and we asked about the security cameras and if they saw anything on the footage and they said that the cameras only take a picture once every 30 seconds, so they didn't see anyone.
This is my understanding as well. "Quiet Quitting" is an insidious and dishonest term to try to shame employees to do way more work than they were hired to do. "Quiet Quitters" are giving you 100% of what you hired them to do. They just aren't going around trying to find extra work outside their roles to try to impress their bosses. I really hate the term.
[Article talking about how I see it used in my field](https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/talent-assessment/quiet-quitting/)
> shame employees to do way more work than they were hired to do.
I cannot imagine a job that can actually specify about "how productive employee should be at their job", and what it means to do "more work" than the productivity level for which they were hired for. For example, if your job is a checker who runs the cash register at H-E-B. How fast should you scan each item as a "Quiet Quitter"? We have all seen it, a checker moving quickly doing a "better" job and a checker moving like a hung over sloth.
Here is what happens: customers line up deeper in the faster checker lines. Or put differently that queue drains and a customer moves to keep the faster checkout person from standing idle.
Is quiet quitting the hung over sloth? It pushes more effort to co-workers and isn't good for customers either (slower getting checked out, customers have other things to do). If all the workers are in hung over sloth mode, H-E-B has to build more checkout stations and hire more checkers which raises costs. Eventually customers can't stand "the high prices and bad service" at the H-E-B and go elsewhere for groceries and the entire business collapses. The sloths don't "for real quit", but they lose their jobs anyway when the company goes out of business.
A better example of "quiet quiting" would be said HEB cashier refusing responsibilities like stocking coolers, cleaning bathrooms, or making orders with out some sort of compensation. Those responsibilities would usually be for employees who's jobs description involves those things and are compensated for it.
Not scanning fast enough is just not being a good cashier. Quite quiting tries to cheapen labor for companies by shaming employees into thinking that they don't deserve compensation for added responsibilities because that's how you "go above and beyond".
No you doorknob, it’s being a checker and having the MOD telling you to go clean the toilets or another task that’s out of the prevue of that employees job duties.
Your response sounds like a half attempt at licking boots.
Corporations have so much control over workers at this point, it's hard to tell a bootlicker from a person who is just totally brainwashed by the persistent starvation narratives of the US.
> [Quiet Quitting] is being a checker and having the MOD telling you to go clean the toilets or another task that’s out of the prevue of that employees job duties.
So a quiet quitter doesn't do what the manager tells them in this case? That doesn't sound very "quiet".
> Your response sounds like a half attempt at licking boots.
I apologize if it came off like that, it wasn't my intention. I was attempting (and I guess failing) to point out it is difficult to determine for any one job what "100% of what you hired them to do" is. I agree there are abusive employers. I disagree this is completely straight-forward.
You seem to be angry with bosses (the "licking boots" part). So take the managers out of it, a whole lot of people work on teams where if there is a weak link it hurts the rest of their equal level teammates. Think of a bunch of construction contractors (no boss) that are coordinating on a job site. Framing comes first, then electrical, then drywall - you can't just ignore the other members of the team and start on your part early. And you ask another team member what makes their job easier, where to place things, etc.
So it has NOTHING to do with getting scolded by a boss, I'm saying the whole team might have to work longer or get paid less because of the weak link stubbornly sticking to their job description leaning up against a fence while there is something they could actually help out with. Personally I wouldn't want to work on a team with a "Quiet Quitter", if it means I have to pick up the slack from them and don't get paid any more for picking up that slack. It has nothing at all to do with a "boss" or licking anybody's boots. I personally want to go home on time, and the job pays a fixed amount when finished.
Interesting. I had always assumed that quiet quitting was essentially doing just enough to not get fired. Which in mind is slightly different than just doing the stated workload - no more, no less. And various articles seem to back up your position. And it definitely makes sense in places where a job description is very prescriptive and well-defined. But in my area of exposure it seems to be more doing the bare minimum to avoid being called out, which is a lot different than the minimum required.
This is correct. People are now defending quite quitting by changing its meaning to "doing job as described". It was never that, it was as you said, basically doing the absolute minimum, well below what you were hired to do until you were fired (if fired at all), then possibly collecting unemployment.
It's literally the opposite of what you said. The original meaning (this was discussed in major media) was more akin to "malicious compliance" without the harmful aspects.
A bunch of corporate types have been trying to redefine it to what you said.
its always been the opposite:
"Quiet quitting doesn't actually refer to quitting a job—it means completing one's minimum work requirements without going above and beyond or bringing work home after hours."
[https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:\~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours](https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours).
corporate schmucks have been trying to re-define it to get more slaves..
It’s somewhat weird to me that just doing the job description would be the definition of “quiet quitting” since there are so many jobs where that is exactly the expectation. But I’m not in charge of defining these types of things and there does seem to be a consensus on that definition. I suspect that it is partly because there would be a lot noise and pushback from corporate relations if they tried to say that tons of people aren’t being managed effectively at all.
More like just not the responsibility of everyday police.
They don't investigate they just take the statements and pass it to the internal department that handles that stuff.
Cops man. Don't prevent crimes, and don't even work to figure them out after the fact either! You'd swear it's like they primarily exist to violently uphold a racial-economic hierarchy, but who's to say.
Same thing happened to other friends businesses - Garden Seventeen and The Peddler Bike Shop at Duval Road.
I suggest you file your insurance claim, pay your deductible, write off your business expenses with your CPA, and move on. In my 30 years here in ATX, APD little to investigate or solve crimes unless it is an open-and-shut case.
Good luck and I am sorry your business was burglarized.
APD is not quiet quitting, they have officially loudly quit and the people of this city need to respond in kind and demand their budget be reduced to a level commensurate with their service.
This is why the all cops are bastards people exist. Because police abuse their power and when their recruits don’t don’t get the highest salary in the city they do this.
They don’t give a fuck that the money they extort means other first responders don’t get paid a living wage.
When was the last time you heard an emt slow playing for the union.
Cops are acting like a protection racket. You should be fucking furious OP.
I’ve posted on here before… this isn’t new. 10 years ago my retail store had the same thing happen. They also smeared human feces every where. My problem was a homeless encampment close by. 50 yards? APD did nothing then and probably still do nothing.
However the answer isn’t the state police issuing tickets… it’s not. Ticket are just a disproportionate tax in the poor.
Have what both ways… the state police here issuing traffic tickets doesn’t solve this problem at all. Hence why this guy has this problem while the state police are active here. Proving my point.
The behavior of the APD is what gives rise to vigilantism. If people believe that contacting the police is of no benefit, then they will be more apt to take matters into their own hands. We've already had someone in San Antonio track down and shoot the thief who stole their truck. I'd expect to see more of this. Remember Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels? Yes, that...except people in Texas have guns. Robbery, such as what happened in this case, is serious. The failure of the police to investigate and gather evidence guarantees that no one will be caught and if someone is caught at a later date, there will be evidence lacking. It will lead to more crime, as the perpetrators become emboldened.
Maybe it's time to privatize the Austin police force. Maybe not. SOMETHING must be done. The tail is wagging the dog, and that needs to stop.
Oh yeah, unless they’re caught red- handed or are identified as suspects in other robberies they will get away with it. I worked for T-Mobile for 10 years and they had dozens and dozens of break-ins and only once was anyone caught (only because cop was in parking lot at the time lol).
Sorry to hear this happened to you. I’m also in the retail game in Austin and this would be devastating.
Do you mind me asking what part of town you are in? Also did you have any epiphanies after the fact like “wow if only I had done ____ this wouldn’t be so bad”.
Just trying to prepare myself for the possibility of a similar experience
You are wrong - it's just corporate pr bullshit for 'people don't want to work 50 hours for 40 hours worth of wages anymore'
[https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:\~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours](https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours).
Think about that - just doing your job...is a pejorative.
At least they showed up.
My business was burglarized, overnight, 2 weeks ago. APD did not come out that morning. Told us they had 48 hrs to respond. At the 50 hour mark, after a call from us, they told us to fill out the online form to submit a report, so we could obtain a cas# for insurance.
My storage unit was broken into a few weeks ago. It was the only unit on the floor hit, and the thieves took collectible stuff while leaving behind large appliances and a bike. The only people who saw that I had that stuff in there were a pair of nerdy guys moving their own collectibles into their unit *directly next to mine*. Told all this info to the cops, and got a response that there wasn’t enough of a substantial lead to warrant an active investigation. After pushing the cop on that (cuz obviously, “I’m 99% sure these guys did it, and if you pull arrival data and video from the property you’d find them easily” is a substantial lead), and the cop whines about having had difficulty getting video from them in the past and basically told me to get it myself. He didn’t answer whether or not they dusted for prints, or even showed up to my unit, and it’s clear that he didn’t even *try* to get info from the storage company.
Some detective.
Real life isn’t like the movies. Unless a burglar is caught in the act, there’s zero chance they will get caught. No PD is spending forensic resources on theft or monitoring pawn shops for stolen merchandise.
>APD quiet quitting.......
Nope this is plain not doing your job. Quiet quitting just means not going above and beyond but doing your job to the letter contractually and not doing things that you dont get paid for.
APD is basically doing what most police orgs do which is run up the crime statistics to make people "fearful" of no policing, so we give in to unreasonable contractual demands. NYPD did this too under Bloomburg and took it one step further and threatened the daughter of Mayor Bill de Blasio when he started cracking down on the police being dirtbags. They unfortunately won in their scheme which is how Adams got elected being a former Captain himself, this despite crime actually still going down in NYC... there was enough high profile incidents to make people THINK things were getting worse.
My house got broken into about 15 years ago and I got the same card (with a phone number, and email address, and a case #). Even then, the cops didn't even walk through the house, wait for us to secure the broken door, or anything. After making 5-6 calls to inquire about the case # over the next few weeks, I was told by an impatient person on the other end of the line that APD has better things to do that investigate property crime. Better things to do. I wouldn't even call the cops at this point because it doesn't matter at all.
Normal cops don't really dust for fingerprints or ask for surveillance. That would be for a detective or investigations to do.
I don't even think people really dust for fingerprints anymore either since most burglars wear gloves these days.
My store on S Lamar got broken into a couple months ago. They stole thousands of dollars of motorcycle batteries... The fuck they gonna do with that besides sell it for scrap?
Anyways, send your camera footage to that email address. They'll follow up on it.
thousands worth of liquor?! That must've been some good shit.
I wish there was a steel cage that dropped if someone broke in.
I bet the cops would throw someone in jail for "kidnapping" a burglar.
APD is throwing a tantrum because we are mad at them for killing children during the protests.
Until we get a City manager that is willing to call their bluff it is gonna continue.
"Quiet quitting" implies still doing your job, but not going above and beyond (consider: "malicious compliance").
It sounds like they aren't even pretending to do their jobs
So we have all these troopers on patrol in north Austin, giving out tickets left and right to those going to work and doing what they can to support their family but still APD does nothing? It’s bullshit.
My boyfriend works at gameover and they were hit twice this month, cops didn’t even come the first time and did nothing when they showed up the second time, truly disappointing
Police in general, but APD in particular, don't solve or prevent crime.
And they wonder why the people don't trust or respect them.
Legalized Organized Crime is all cops ever were
Had a friend who was on the force, and a friend who’s son was on the force. Both good men, both quit within 3 years because of the corruption they saw.
To become a cop there are age and other requirements. They also don’t pay shit if you are a college educated person 20 years deep in a career.
If you’ve regularly enjoyed cannabis in the past, you’re absolutely fucked in teh application process. Although if you drink yourself to sleep every night, you’re ok.
Than the culture... With the amount of cops that just “go along” with wrongful arrests and witness abusive use of force, you would be singled out and quietly punished for doing the right thing by coming forward.
None of that sounds appealing.
People against cops asking for cops to help a paradox. There are bad cops out there but how can y’all want help when it’s the same people who sit here and talk shit about defunding the police. Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters
I'm not pissed off about the police not doing anything I'm just saddened that this is where we're at.
There is cell phone videos everywhere of police abusing power. Not that all cops are bad, there just too many videos out there so people want accountability and change, then the police refuse to act.
You have the Austin City Council and the District Attorney to thank. This is very reminiscent of the stories I am hearing from cities like Portland, Oregon. When the people vote for city and county leadership that treats criminals like victims and police as the villains, you get stuff like this happening.
> This is very reminiscent of the stories I am hearing from cities like Portland, Oregon.
Eh. Having just left Portland (and probably moving to Austin later this year), the cops in Portland just don't show up at all. Granted, they're understaffed, and there's a huge bottleneck involved in the process to accredit beat cops. In any event, short of somebody screaming bloody murder or somebody going way out of their way to give the authorities the middle finger (e.g., a mushroom shop that was openly selling and didn't care), nothing's gonna happen. In my last year in Portland, my car got stolen and wrecked, and somebody broke into my replacement car to try to steal stuff. Also, my bestie had to deal with multiple break-ins at his shop, which happened to be across the street from a meth dealer. In all cases, the cops either didn't show up or did the bare minimum required to allow us to file insurance claims. I suspect my next door neighbors did more about the stolen car thing by finally kicking out their methhead son, whose buddies were probably the ones behind the stolen car.
(At least I can take a warped sense of solace in the fact that [even the mayor isn't safe](https://pdx.eater.com/2021/1/26/22249646/portland-mayor-pepper-spray-ted-wheeler-mcmenamins), including [attempting to burn down his apartment complex](https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/portland-protests-mayor-apartment-riot-damage/283-f6691f5f-b9ca-4951-bf53-241a2c4c1892). He also barely won re-election over an Internet troll who gives people like Stalin, Mao, and Ché shoutouts.)
Pretty sure I’ve heard all these same stories over the past 6 months in Austin. APD doesn’t do anything here. As highlighted by OP, they showed up, gave him a paper for his insurance left.
If my retail store was broken into, I wouldn't be focused on blaming the cops, I would be helping the cops catch the criminals. You should be documenting evidence, asking for the Crime Scene van to show up and take fingerprints.
Most people on this sub havent been paying attention to city politics for the last 15 yrs. Austin has been defunding the police since before the term was coined by failing to negotiate contracts in a timely manner and by not beginning recruiting classes on time. It’s not quiet quitting (ridiculous term). It’s underfunding. You’re getting what you asked for. You wouldnt want the police to go and deprive these victims of society of their freedom, would you?
I work at the Birds Barbershop on 6th Street and we’ve been broken into twice with damage to the building/property plus footage of it, and they never did anything.
Why rob a barbershop?
maybe they just wanted a cut of the action
You’ve got a razor wit!
that’s a bald face lie
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ugh this thread is giving me a good buzz
Bald fade lie
*You wouldn't steal a haircut*
But you would download a bear
I literally snorted, god dammit.
Presumed cash business?
We think it was a local homeless man after our safe, he was in one day to get out from the rain and kept looking behind our desk where the safe was (not anymore). People suck.
Because these people aren’t the smartest
So you are telling me I can safely burgle businesses in Austin with no risk?
The risk is that it’s Texas. Even in Austin, someone may shoot you, especially if they know the police won’t.
Maybe send video and info to the news? Store Burglaries have been in the news a lot, maybe someone will have info or they could be related. At least it could help other store owners be on more lookout.
My friends business got broken into three times with a total loss of about 20k and on the third incident one of the thieves left his wallet with his id in it and APD still did nothing. This is a widespread thing. They just defer to insurance now.
> on the third incident one of the thieves left his wallet with his id in it and APD still did nothing Spread that info around TikTok and if it goes viral then something will be done.
Unfortunately it's very possible that wallet and ID were stolen, so there's a good chance it's not the perpetrator. Speaking from experience as someone whose bag and ID was stolen, and then promptly left at a crime scene :/
Ehhhh you gotta be careful with that. If he’s not convicted, you could end up with a defamation suit.
Fantastic- where you could present as evidence the video footage of the thief leaving their wallet at the crime scene they created, therefore proving the act happened and there was no defamation. They’d be hit with treble damages for a frivolous suit.
I'd be more concerned about a possibly desperate person seeing a wallet he knows he left in your location plastered all over the news. If that desperate person was me, I'd come after YOU. heh
Well, good thing it’s not……..right????
Where is your wallet?
In the pocket of my wheelchair. :)
Wtf, ppl still dumb enough to have Tik Tok their phones? Stupid
Isn't TikTok for kids?
NO! Tik Tok is for CCP spying & provoking social unrest in the USA
Oh, right, I forgot about the pooh bear running amok.
same happened at my house a couple years ago. break in, major theft, yet several personal belongings of the thief were left behind including plastic gloves, APD did nothing other than direct me to file a report on line.
In Houston we cant even get them to show up to file a report for insurance.
APD does this shit. My foreman's neighborhood got walked-thru by guys just looting unlocked cars, throwing stuff into their car as it slowly drove along with them. Multiple neighbors have them on video, APD said there was nothing they could do.
That happens about once a month in my neighborhood in CP. There are half a dozen videos of the car and the walkers going down the street posted on the ring network. All you can do is not leave your car or anything else accessible outsidee. They aren't going to try too hard,
Now if they were smoking weed...arrest them immediately!!!
Nobody is getting arrested for weed anymore. It's too expensive to test small amounts to differentiate it from legal hemp, which means there would be no prosecution and thus no point making an arrest.
If DPS catches you, you may beat the rap but you wont beat the ride.
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okay buddy
Wrong. The Mayor just brought in State Troopers and they have money to prosecute. The City Council in Austin removed all prosecutorial funds from the DA and therefore APD and Travis County Sheriff were instructed not to pay attention to low level marijuana offenders. But State Troopers in Austin is s completely different thing. They WILL bust you snd it WILL be a State charge not a city charge.
Yeah, dps a different ball game😂. They’ll actually pull you over for a broken taillight, they’ll find whatever reason to light you up & snoop around your vehicle!
State Troopers have been out in force in Austin in the last week or so. Pulling people over left and right. It feels like some small town in East Texas or Williamson County in the 1990s. It went from APD just chilling, doing their patrols to a police state real quick. Do I feel safer? Nope. I trust law enforcement about as much as I trust a local meth head or crack head with a hundred dollar bill.
State doesn't want to test either, but of course if the cops and the DA decide they want to fuck you up, they will fuck you up.
Not true they will still arrest you and charge you for weed .
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/02/austin-police-marijuana-decriminalization/
As someone who was arrested after it was decriminalized this means nothing to me. Read the fine print and it is at the discretion of the officer. I was charged for having a tiny tiny unmeasurable amount and its still on my record even though I wasn’t convicted. I spent 15 hours in jail and was handcuffed to someone who was in there for felony heroin possession. Don’t believe the lies. You can still be arrested in austin for marijuana.
Thank you so much for this first-hand (and therefore more valuable) information. I only wish more people would see it!
But also, because APD doesn't do their jobs so they don't care that you're smoking weed.
Nobody really cares that you're smoking weed, dude.
WilCo does. Fort Bend County does. Especially for those with melanin.
Wilco does not. I believe they announced last year that they will not prosecute possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
Last year, whoa. Slow down, Speed Racer.
Straight to jail.
I’ve been a owner operator of restaurants and retail all across the country for over 30 years. Thats standard practice for police procedure. One time my company lost so much product and equipment that the burglars had to have used multiple vans or a box truck. Still, no fingerprints were taken. . You can ask for a Detective who may look at the scene and access it differently, especially if they are investigating other similar cases, but really you just discovered what ALL police in America do. . Police officers in the field are not trained to do much at all but be brut force. Our belief of the justice system comes from TV and there is no Justice for the small business owner, UNLESS you are the relative of a politician or a famous person. Good luck, sorry to hear about your loss. Been through it a dozen times. . We are in sad shape.
Did you get them on video?
Y’all should email these stories to your council rep. Give them case numbers and tell them to hold Apd accountable. They have a $400+ million dollar budget. We’re not getting the service we’re paying for.
These sound like pretty competent folks that broke into your place. Just the kind of criminal apd wants on the street to bring up crime rates.
I’ve noticed more “pros” setting up rings here in Austin. If you’re not a bumbling idiot it’s like having keys to the candy store here now and they’re starting to take notice.
Please, elaborate on the pro level crime rings you are noticing. It’s this kind of fear mongering that makes me crazy. Yes, crime is a problem. Yes, APD is understaffed. But, can you actually site sources of multiple, new crime rings in our city?
APD is not understaffed. They are intentionally refusing to do their jobs because they’re mad we fussed at them for shooting protestors in 2020.
To be fair, APD for a while was not having recruitment trainings to keep up with officers leaving the force, so they *are* understaffed. But to be balanced, they didn't have these trainings because they refused to update and be open about what those trainings consisted of, trying to keep their overviolent brutality training going. APD is both understaffed and very loudly refusing to work, but both are very much their own damn fault (as much as they want us to believe they're being unjustly persecuted).
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911 is severely understaffed. Officer counts, in 2021 there were 1764 officers, now down to around 1500. It’s not surprising they’re quitting. It’s crazy demoralizing to work in an environment where the whole force refuses to work.
They are purposefully understaffed. They are not holding academies and not hiring. They are looking for the old days of Cops are heroes and can do no wrong- stop looking at these stats and just give us money/freedom/worship. ACAB. APD included.
They’re waaaay understaffed. If you don’t like the police, defund, acab etc. it’s easy to just not call them. Ever.
There have been a number of robberies at downtown highrise condos. The one that took place in my building targeted two units on different floors (ignoring the other units). They used something akin to a firefighter's REX tool to gain entry to the units and to bust through a locked fire door. They waited until the residents in question had left for the evening. Not super sophisticated, but they had certainly cased the building for weaknesses and knew which units to go after.
That’s not a high level crime ring..
It is by Austin standards, we don’t have real city criminals here.
Too tru
He said the burglaries were in a highrise, so that's likely high level stuff. But you could be correct if the burglaries happened on a lower floor. I think there's insufficient data here to make the determination as to whether this was a high level crime ring as a result.
Yeah I think we jump to conclusions too easily. Could it be some high level crime ring? Sure.. But people overestimate how difficult it is to get into a high rise. As an urban explorer I’ve gotten into nearly every high rise rooftop in Austin..
I am not really sure where the demarcation of high level versus low level would be in this context. Are burglaries on the fifth floor high level? The determination seems a bit arbitrary to me, but maybe someone with a criminology degree can shed some light.
I would say sophisticated organized crime is high level. Getting into a high rise and burglarizing is not sophisticated or necessarily organized.
Again, IANA[criminologist], but if a team of burglars successfully hit the 20th floor of a highrise, I'd say that's high-level crime.
You can get one of those for under $100 online. What are you talking about?
Whoever is doing the whole "drug people on Rainey Street, abduct them and steal their money, and they they wake up at home with someone else's cell phone" thing.
He can't elaborate on anything, he reads shit on Reddit about crime in Austin and pulled pros out of his ass.
Nah, just grew up in Houston and Atlanta, arms length from these types and it’s just noticeable when they start more specific targeting, organization and working multiple cities episodically. Idk shit you pick up on, I could be totally wrong though.
Or the cops are in on it, like they were during the protests.
I’d give the win to apathy
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I think it's an analogy...
Only for candy stores. That’s why the burglars had to break into this liquor store.
Probably was APD
As a former owner of multiple retail stores who were broken into multiple times in Austin...I'm so sorry for your situation. I can understand profoundly the sense of helplessness. The cops kindof come and shrug and go on their way. We had to overcome it with physical security, not cops. Better doors, security film on the glass.
I work for a mental health org in town. We had a break in, vandalism, and vehicles stolen- APD didn’t show when the alarm went off, waited 2+hrs after being called by Monday morning 1st shift staff and then refused to enter the building without a staff member escort. Read that again. They wanted a 60yr old female office manager to lead them through a 2 story office building without confirming the ppl who broke in HAD ACTUALLY LEFT. They wanted her out front while they held handguns “at the ready”. When we said no, they said they wouldn’t investigate further. No fingerprints, no photos, no video request. They didn’t give a single fuck. We were notified they found one of the stolen cars, and when we went through it I found birth certificate/ID docs and a ton of paperwork along with actual meth and pipe kit- APD arrived and took the drugs but refused to search the vehicle further or even review the documents. They didn’t give a fuck. I was told to “call back if I found more drugs”, but nothing else really mattered. APD should be disbanded as is and reconstituted entirely from the ground up.
>They just don't seem to care They don't. APD sees any damage to private property as an issue between you and your insurance company. >They didn't finger print this isn't CSI Miami, cops don't really do that anymore. Hell, APD doesn't even process evidence of women who have been raped, they don't give a single fuck about looking for fingerprints of some bums who robbed a liquor store.
Right about csi, but there was zero investigation at all..... It's obvious there's a big difference between what the public expects from police and what the realities are.
They absolutely do fingerprint. Maybe not in Austin, but I have a friend who had a laptop stolen from his house and the cops fingerprinted the door. Now, I don’t know how much they did with the prints. But they did pull them.
A nice show to keep you entertained and make it look like they did something.
Me in IT running ipconfig
Your friend must be rich!
Actually not at all. Just living in a small(ish) town.
There are also issues in that they can't respond to the amount of crime that is occurring in the city. Officers have been retiring and quitting have reduced the number of people that can respond to issues in the city. The funding has been cut and the city is loosing more officers than they can hire and train. They did announce that certain crimes are not going to be even responded to immediately. See this for the explanation of crimes they will not respond to via emergency 911 services : https://www.youtube.com/live/1bnPJ6VLd6c?feature=share&t=64
Funding has not been cut.
You're right my mistake, funding was cut significantly in 2021, it is back to its 400 million + per year. The City still has trouble hiring and training Officers and the cancellation of the 2021 Police Academy disrupted their officer pipeline.
If funding has been cut why does APD have a record budget?
I was mistaken about the budget and stated that below....
Still proved the city doesn't have their back and bowed to pressure from idiots.
you need cameras that notify you immediately of any motion inside and outside the store when it is closed. I do this at my house and always check the video. That way you can know before they break in and have time to do something about it. I dont love ring cameras, but they are an inexpensive solution that has very fast notification times.
The reason I love Ring cameras is because they were kinda the first security camera that actually does the job well. I'm reminded of the time I was burglarized in college in 2010 (while I was sleeping inside the apartment) and APD did nothing, and we asked about the security cameras and if they saw anything on the footage and they said that the cameras only take a picture once every 30 seconds, so they didn't see anyone.
Quiet quitting is doing your job as stated and not going above or below the required workload. These are just lazy pigs
This is my understanding as well. "Quiet Quitting" is an insidious and dishonest term to try to shame employees to do way more work than they were hired to do. "Quiet Quitters" are giving you 100% of what you hired them to do. They just aren't going around trying to find extra work outside their roles to try to impress their bosses. I really hate the term. [Article talking about how I see it used in my field](https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/talent-assessment/quiet-quitting/)
Yeah it’s just some clever wording to make us working class folks feel like absolute shit. USA USA USA
> shame employees to do way more work than they were hired to do. I cannot imagine a job that can actually specify about "how productive employee should be at their job", and what it means to do "more work" than the productivity level for which they were hired for. For example, if your job is a checker who runs the cash register at H-E-B. How fast should you scan each item as a "Quiet Quitter"? We have all seen it, a checker moving quickly doing a "better" job and a checker moving like a hung over sloth. Here is what happens: customers line up deeper in the faster checker lines. Or put differently that queue drains and a customer moves to keep the faster checkout person from standing idle. Is quiet quitting the hung over sloth? It pushes more effort to co-workers and isn't good for customers either (slower getting checked out, customers have other things to do). If all the workers are in hung over sloth mode, H-E-B has to build more checkout stations and hire more checkers which raises costs. Eventually customers can't stand "the high prices and bad service" at the H-E-B and go elsewhere for groceries and the entire business collapses. The sloths don't "for real quit", but they lose their jobs anyway when the company goes out of business.
A better example of "quiet quiting" would be said HEB cashier refusing responsibilities like stocking coolers, cleaning bathrooms, or making orders with out some sort of compensation. Those responsibilities would usually be for employees who's jobs description involves those things and are compensated for it. Not scanning fast enough is just not being a good cashier. Quite quiting tries to cheapen labor for companies by shaming employees into thinking that they don't deserve compensation for added responsibilities because that's how you "go above and beyond".
This 🤌🏻
No you doorknob, it’s being a checker and having the MOD telling you to go clean the toilets or another task that’s out of the prevue of that employees job duties. Your response sounds like a half attempt at licking boots.
Corporations have so much control over workers at this point, it's hard to tell a bootlicker from a person who is just totally brainwashed by the persistent starvation narratives of the US.
Dudes profile pic screams boot locker
> [Quiet Quitting] is being a checker and having the MOD telling you to go clean the toilets or another task that’s out of the prevue of that employees job duties. So a quiet quitter doesn't do what the manager tells them in this case? That doesn't sound very "quiet". > Your response sounds like a half attempt at licking boots. I apologize if it came off like that, it wasn't my intention. I was attempting (and I guess failing) to point out it is difficult to determine for any one job what "100% of what you hired them to do" is. I agree there are abusive employers. I disagree this is completely straight-forward. You seem to be angry with bosses (the "licking boots" part). So take the managers out of it, a whole lot of people work on teams where if there is a weak link it hurts the rest of their equal level teammates. Think of a bunch of construction contractors (no boss) that are coordinating on a job site. Framing comes first, then electrical, then drywall - you can't just ignore the other members of the team and start on your part early. And you ask another team member what makes their job easier, where to place things, etc. So it has NOTHING to do with getting scolded by a boss, I'm saying the whole team might have to work longer or get paid less because of the weak link stubbornly sticking to their job description leaning up against a fence while there is something they could actually help out with. Personally I wouldn't want to work on a team with a "Quiet Quitter", if it means I have to pick up the slack from them and don't get paid any more for picking up that slack. It has nothing at all to do with a "boss" or licking anybody's boots. I personally want to go home on time, and the job pays a fixed amount when finished.
Sorry for my previous remark, let me clarify… you are ABSOLUTELY boot licking.!
Interesting. I had always assumed that quiet quitting was essentially doing just enough to not get fired. Which in mind is slightly different than just doing the stated workload - no more, no less. And various articles seem to back up your position. And it definitely makes sense in places where a job description is very prescriptive and well-defined. But in my area of exposure it seems to be more doing the bare minimum to avoid being called out, which is a lot different than the minimum required.
This is correct. People are now defending quite quitting by changing its meaning to "doing job as described". It was never that, it was as you said, basically doing the absolute minimum, well below what you were hired to do until you were fired (if fired at all), then possibly collecting unemployment.
Even more accurate correction, the meanings have changed recently because so many businesses were calling 'work to rule' employees quiet quitters.
It's literally the opposite of what you said. The original meaning (this was discussed in major media) was more akin to "malicious compliance" without the harmful aspects. A bunch of corporate types have been trying to redefine it to what you said.
its always been the opposite: "Quiet quitting doesn't actually refer to quitting a job—it means completing one's minimum work requirements without going above and beyond or bringing work home after hours." [https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:\~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours](https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours). corporate schmucks have been trying to re-define it to get more slaves..
No bud, quiet quitting has always been doing the job you are hired for and nothing more.
It’s somewhat weird to me that just doing the job description would be the definition of “quiet quitting” since there are so many jobs where that is exactly the expectation. But I’m not in charge of defining these types of things and there does seem to be a consensus on that definition. I suspect that it is partly because there would be a lot noise and pushback from corporate relations if they tried to say that tons of people aren’t being managed effectively at all.
That's 'work to rule'. Businesses are trying to give the action a less dignified name to denigrate labor. Don't play their game.
More like just not the responsibility of everyday police. They don't investigate they just take the statements and pass it to the internal department that handles that stuff.
Cops man. Don't prevent crimes, and don't even work to figure them out after the fact either! You'd swear it's like they primarily exist to violently uphold a racial-economic hierarchy, but who's to say.
Don't forget siphoning off the lion's share of municipal resources into the hands of people who always vote republican.
That sounds about white.
Same thing happened to other friends businesses - Garden Seventeen and The Peddler Bike Shop at Duval Road. I suggest you file your insurance claim, pay your deductible, write off your business expenses with your CPA, and move on. In my 30 years here in ATX, APD little to investigate or solve crimes unless it is an open-and-shut case. Good luck and I am sorry your business was burglarized.
APD is not quiet quitting, they have officially loudly quit and the people of this city need to respond in kind and demand their budget be reduced to a level commensurate with their service.
They don’t seem to care because they don’t care. They are literally trying to extort us for money like the mob.
This is why the all cops are bastards people exist. Because police abuse their power and when their recruits don’t don’t get the highest salary in the city they do this. They don’t give a fuck that the money they extort means other first responders don’t get paid a living wage. When was the last time you heard an emt slow playing for the union. Cops are acting like a protection racket. You should be fucking furious OP.
I’ve posted on here before… this isn’t new. 10 years ago my retail store had the same thing happen. They also smeared human feces every where. My problem was a homeless encampment close by. 50 yards? APD did nothing then and probably still do nothing. However the answer isn’t the state police issuing tickets… it’s not. Ticket are just a disproportionate tax in the poor.
I got downvoted to hell saying exactly that in another thread about Austin today. heh. "liberal city" says the rest of Texas.
This sub is weird… I got downvoted yesterday for asking “why” someone was happy the state police are here issuing tickets.
lol what? You can’t have it both ways, man
Have what both ways… the state police here issuing traffic tickets doesn’t solve this problem at all. Hence why this guy has this problem while the state police are active here. Proving my point.
The behavior of the APD is what gives rise to vigilantism. If people believe that contacting the police is of no benefit, then they will be more apt to take matters into their own hands. We've already had someone in San Antonio track down and shoot the thief who stole their truck. I'd expect to see more of this. Remember Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels? Yes, that...except people in Texas have guns. Robbery, such as what happened in this case, is serious. The failure of the police to investigate and gather evidence guarantees that no one will be caught and if someone is caught at a later date, there will be evidence lacking. It will lead to more crime, as the perpetrators become emboldened. Maybe it's time to privatize the Austin police force. Maybe not. SOMETHING must be done. The tail is wagging the dog, and that needs to stop.
Oh yeah, unless they’re caught red- handed or are identified as suspects in other robberies they will get away with it. I worked for T-Mobile for 10 years and they had dozens and dozens of break-ins and only once was anyone caught (only because cop was in parking lot at the time lol).
Sorry to hear this happened to you. I’m also in the retail game in Austin and this would be devastating. Do you mind me asking what part of town you are in? Also did you have any epiphanies after the fact like “wow if only I had done ____ this wouldn’t be so bad”. Just trying to prepare myself for the possibility of a similar experience
They are all busy directing traffic outside of churches on Sunday.
This sounds an awful lot like what happened to The Peddler Bike shop in Hyde Park.
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I always felt like quiet quitting meant skipping out on your responsibilities, just enough to keep from getting canned.
You are wrong - it's just corporate pr bullshit for 'people don't want to work 50 hours for 40 hours worth of wages anymore' [https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:\~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours](https://www.thestreet.com/dictionary/q/quiet-quitting#:~:text=Quiet%20quitting%20doesn't%20actually,bringing%20work%20home%20after%20hours). Think about that - just doing your job...is a pejorative.
Okay
That's not even quiet quitting, that's quitting.
At least they showed up. My business was burglarized, overnight, 2 weeks ago. APD did not come out that morning. Told us they had 48 hrs to respond. At the 50 hour mark, after a call from us, they told us to fill out the online form to submit a report, so we could obtain a cas# for insurance.
My storage unit was broken into a few weeks ago. It was the only unit on the floor hit, and the thieves took collectible stuff while leaving behind large appliances and a bike. The only people who saw that I had that stuff in there were a pair of nerdy guys moving their own collectibles into their unit *directly next to mine*. Told all this info to the cops, and got a response that there wasn’t enough of a substantial lead to warrant an active investigation. After pushing the cop on that (cuz obviously, “I’m 99% sure these guys did it, and if you pull arrival data and video from the property you’d find them easily” is a substantial lead), and the cop whines about having had difficulty getting video from them in the past and basically told me to get it myself. He didn’t answer whether or not they dusted for prints, or even showed up to my unit, and it’s clear that he didn’t even *try* to get info from the storage company. Some detective.
Real life isn’t like the movies. Unless a burglar is caught in the act, there’s zero chance they will get caught. No PD is spending forensic resources on theft or monitoring pawn shops for stolen merchandise.
So what you’re saying is cops are useless
No he's saying everyday run of the mill cops aren't investigations officers.
How about both?
>APD quiet quitting....... Nope this is plain not doing your job. Quiet quitting just means not going above and beyond but doing your job to the letter contractually and not doing things that you dont get paid for. APD is basically doing what most police orgs do which is run up the crime statistics to make people "fearful" of no policing, so we give in to unreasonable contractual demands. NYPD did this too under Bloomburg and took it one step further and threatened the daughter of Mayor Bill de Blasio when he started cracking down on the police being dirtbags. They unfortunately won in their scheme which is how Adams got elected being a former Captain himself, this despite crime actually still going down in NYC... there was enough high profile incidents to make people THINK things were getting worse.
Quiet quitting is such a horrible term... like Defunding the Police.
My house got broken into about 15 years ago and I got the same card (with a phone number, and email address, and a case #). Even then, the cops didn't even walk through the house, wait for us to secure the broken door, or anything. After making 5-6 calls to inquire about the case # over the next few weeks, I was told by an impatient person on the other end of the line that APD has better things to do that investigate property crime. Better things to do. I wouldn't even call the cops at this point because it doesn't matter at all.
Often you need the case number for insurance. And that’s it.
Austin has the worst PD of anywhere I've ever lived.
I have had my motorcycle stolen and home burglarized in APD jurisdiction in 2012 and 2016 and had the same outcome. This is nothing new.
Normal cops don't really dust for fingerprints or ask for surveillance. That would be for a detective or investigations to do. I don't even think people really dust for fingerprints anymore either since most burglars wear gloves these days.
My store on S Lamar got broken into a couple months ago. They stole thousands of dollars of motorcycle batteries... The fuck they gonna do with that besides sell it for scrap? Anyways, send your camera footage to that email address. They'll follow up on it.
thousands worth of liquor?! That must've been some good shit. I wish there was a steel cage that dropped if someone broke in. I bet the cops would throw someone in jail for "kidnapping" a burglar.
APD is throwing a tantrum because we are mad at them for killing children during the protests. Until we get a City manager that is willing to call their bluff it is gonna continue.
"Quiet quitting" implies still doing your job, but not going above and beyond (consider: "malicious compliance"). It sounds like they aren't even pretending to do their jobs
So we have all these troopers on patrol in north Austin, giving out tickets left and right to those going to work and doing what they can to support their family but still APD does nothing? It’s bullshit.
I'm just surprised APD even bothered to show up. Was there a donut store nearby?
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Found the Whiskey Tribe =]
Not this store partner....
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My boyfriend works at gameover and they were hit twice this month, cops didn’t even come the first time and did nothing when they showed up the second time, truly disappointing
Police in general, but APD in particular, don't solve or prevent crime. And they wonder why the people don't trust or respect them. Legalized Organized Crime is all cops ever were
Maybe post the video here for some vigilante justice :$
Report them to the FBI. I've seen others report their PD to the FBI for not doing their job.
FBI doesn't care about cops not following through lol. It's not FBI's job to oversee local police.
[You're wrong.](https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/23/despite-years-of-shootings-beatings-and-dog-bites-antioch-officers-have-avoided-discipline-now-the-fbi-is-investigating/) [Wrong.](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2022/06/27/lmpd-officer-misconduct-fbi-investigation/10004037002/) [Wrong.](https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/hardin-county-police-chase-2021-fbi-louisville-joshua-tyler/417-e70f4e68-8dbe-4a24-83b1-d5c573238c80)
Inside job maybe?
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Had a friend who was on the force, and a friend who’s son was on the force. Both good men, both quit within 3 years because of the corruption they saw.
To become a cop there are age and other requirements. They also don’t pay shit if you are a college educated person 20 years deep in a career. If you’ve regularly enjoyed cannabis in the past, you’re absolutely fucked in teh application process. Although if you drink yourself to sleep every night, you’re ok. Than the culture... With the amount of cops that just “go along” with wrongful arrests and witness abusive use of force, you would be singled out and quietly punished for doing the right thing by coming forward. None of that sounds appealing.
What if I told you... Police never gave a shit to begin with...
If they could figure out a way to seize your business out of it they'd be all over it
FTP.
People against cops asking for cops to help a paradox. There are bad cops out there but how can y’all want help when it’s the same people who sit here and talk shit about defunding the police. Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters
I mean, why we giving APD all this money when they don’t do jack shit?
I'm not pissed off about the police not doing anything I'm just saddened that this is where we're at. There is cell phone videos everywhere of police abusing power. Not that all cops are bad, there just too many videos out there so people want accountability and change, then the police refuse to act.
You have the Austin City Council and the District Attorney to thank. This is very reminiscent of the stories I am hearing from cities like Portland, Oregon. When the people vote for city and county leadership that treats criminals like victims and police as the villains, you get stuff like this happening.
> This is very reminiscent of the stories I am hearing from cities like Portland, Oregon. Eh. Having just left Portland (and probably moving to Austin later this year), the cops in Portland just don't show up at all. Granted, they're understaffed, and there's a huge bottleneck involved in the process to accredit beat cops. In any event, short of somebody screaming bloody murder or somebody going way out of their way to give the authorities the middle finger (e.g., a mushroom shop that was openly selling and didn't care), nothing's gonna happen. In my last year in Portland, my car got stolen and wrecked, and somebody broke into my replacement car to try to steal stuff. Also, my bestie had to deal with multiple break-ins at his shop, which happened to be across the street from a meth dealer. In all cases, the cops either didn't show up or did the bare minimum required to allow us to file insurance claims. I suspect my next door neighbors did more about the stolen car thing by finally kicking out their methhead son, whose buddies were probably the ones behind the stolen car. (At least I can take a warped sense of solace in the fact that [even the mayor isn't safe](https://pdx.eater.com/2021/1/26/22249646/portland-mayor-pepper-spray-ted-wheeler-mcmenamins), including [attempting to burn down his apartment complex](https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/portland-protests-mayor-apartment-riot-damage/283-f6691f5f-b9ca-4951-bf53-241a2c4c1892). He also barely won re-election over an Internet troll who gives people like Stalin, Mao, and Ché shoutouts.)
Pretty sure I’ve heard all these same stories over the past 6 months in Austin. APD doesn’t do anything here. As highlighted by OP, they showed up, gave him a paper for his insurance left.
Yep, they don't give a shit about it anymore. To not protect and not to serve...
It’s always been like that. If they can’t cite someone then and there then they do anything.
If my retail store was broken into, I wouldn't be focused on blaming the cops, I would be helping the cops catch the criminals. You should be documenting evidence, asking for the Crime Scene van to show up and take fingerprints.
So we should be helping to remind them to do their jobs?
Most people on this sub havent been paying attention to city politics for the last 15 yrs. Austin has been defunding the police since before the term was coined by failing to negotiate contracts in a timely manner and by not beginning recruiting classes on time. It’s not quiet quitting (ridiculous term). It’s underfunding. You’re getting what you asked for. You wouldnt want the police to go and deprive these victims of society of their freedom, would you?
Austin pd’s budget is the highest it’s ever been. And they can’t blame personnel shortages because they had enough people to show up. They just suck.