We did it!! Austin City Council just reduced APD's budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community's safety and well-being. Tens of thousands of you have called, emailed, and testified. You made the impossible into a reality. #blacklivesmatter 
We voted to open a new family violence shelter, house the homeless, expand substance use care, establish gun violence intervention programs, hire mental health first responders, & more. Tens of millions of dollars are being immediately reinvested into these solutions.
$80 million of the changes will happen over the course of the year to 1) fund more programs and 2) make functions like Internal Affairs and Forensics fully independent. We need your continued advocacy to make sure what we voted for gets fully put into place in the coming months.
We have many fights ahead. Extreme, anti-civil rights voices will try to send us backward and are already working mislead people about this vote.
But today, we should celebrate what the movement has achieved for safety, racial justice, and democracy.
But today, we should celebrate what the movement has achieved for safety, racial justice, and democracy.
