During the last two weeks the Independent has featured a series on Austin’s spiraling number of homicides, a trend which is sadly consistent with an array of cities around the country. In this, our third installment, we look at potential solutions, but also explore...
I need to start with a Boomer Alert because the above headline is a bit dated. Baby Boomers will almost certainly recognize “just the facts” as the motto of Police Sergeant Joe Friday from the TV cop show Dragnet. I don’t mean to endorse Joe Friday here; I wasn’t...
Austin recorded 48 murders in 2020, more than at any other time in at least the last 20 years. That number has now been surpassed. In fact just last week when I wrote that this story was forthcoming, Austin was tied with last year’s total. Since then there have been...
