What The Hell Happened To Austin?? I Went To Find Out.

what is happening here this is Downtown Austin Texas quite a place to begin a road trip kind of depressing place to begin but here we are if you haven't been paying attention Austin was the MVP of our big cities for a long time everyone wanted to come here companies families druggies bums well they came all right i' heard about how the cracks were starting here suddenly Austin maybe wasn't so wonderful anymore and I was like you know what what a perfect place to begin a road trip in Texas I like hearing about about how places change and you guys like to watch bad stuff sounded like a good jumping off point to me we landed in Austin in the last week of October of 2023 we spent a month driving around this state to see how places have changed we saw stories of growth and retraction and experienced a lot of today's Texas and my favorite part was we got to see a lot of old Texas too well howdy I guess you're happy to see me again last time we met I was in Idaho well hell this is a lot different than that right now we're in Austin Texas Mister this is the first stop on a long trip through the biggest state hell the best state we're going to saddle up here and visit every corner of this territory right now we're in the capital of the Lone Star State but looking around you could say we ain't even in Texas [Music] yet [Music] that's the big Tesla Factory that building's 10 million squ F feet and it's 100 football fields big it's the second biggest building in the world bigger than every building on earth except the Boeing factory in Seattle it was 770 million just to expand the damn thing I asked if I could go inside and take a look and they were like no but it's okay I can see from here that it's a big deal look at all the cars out front they're not Teslas though You' think he'd make all his employees buy his cars but he doesn't some say Tesla is a big reason Austin is such a racket now this new Factory helped to drive up the home prices and a lot of the workers they're not locals even the local rag isn't a fan of all elon's high jins I'm surprised he didn't sue him for that that and Elon Musk says one day he wants to build his own town not too far from here all this new growth in Texas just keeps going and going doesn't it Austin Texas or just Austin it's kind of not Texas here hasn't been like the rest of the state for a long time Travis County was always this left leaning little blue dot in state Keep Austin Weird everyone said now it's full-fledged liberal farle as you can get crazy land now I'm going to show you the good stuff in Austin because there's a lot of that but we're going to begin this by talking about the bad stuff because I got to keep your attention spanned where I'm driving right now is one of Austin's worst neighborhoods I like three or four years ago this was the most drug plagued Street in the city the guy talking is my buddy Jeff he's an Austin Police Officer we drove around together one day when I was here and he showed me around the bad sides of town VI um worked at shooting here couple years back um felt bad you know to a degree because woman got shot in the head um by you know two of her her uh older kids were gangbangers um she was living with her boyfriend and their son at the time and older kid I guess who they wanted to get was in jail so they couldn't get to him and uh well we just put put a bullet in your mom and did it in front of her 12-year-old son now I can say almost all the bad areas I saw in Austin were not that bad I mean I've seen far far worse but they've changed a lot and ain't getting any better anytime soon half of Austin's neighborhoods that people who live here don't even want to admit exist or even know about crime and drugs and homelessness really gone up a lot in Austin why cuz they did it to themselves defunded their police three years ago and 80% of the city supported that if you could believe it and then they were like oh what do we just do and then they refunded them but the damage had been done here there's four times more murders in Austin than there were back in the day a ton of Austin cops just quit and not just quit being cops in Austin like quit copying forever so they're just massively underst staffed here they need about a thousand more cops here to make this place normal again other APD officers have been poached by other counties they're like come over here and be a cop we'll pay you more you don't have to deal with all that Austin BS things are so bad here now that the governor sent Texas state troopers down here to lay down the law so everywhere you go downtown now you see these groups of armed men and women standing around I guess that makes you feel safe I don't know but look at this they're just walking around with AR-15s downtown like we're in a damn foreign country for the Austin police officers that stayed morale down I mean when the da doesn't prosecute criminals that shoot you well you're not happy about that 20on streets for 11 years it's hard to believe has it gotten worse oh yeah it's gotten infinitely worse in a lot of [Music] ways that's with us and more than one occasion I had people look at me like I had no idea this part of Austin existed yeah right you know because it's not a place that you go it's what you want to pretend doesn't exist they let him right back out that's what I tell people I said look man is is police have become the Band-Aid of society you know we're we're dealing with the mental health we're dealing with criminals we're dealing with the homeless we're dealing with all these things and even when we do our jobs and we're arresting people you know we're taking people to Jail the system is putting them back on the streets before we're finished writing the PC affidavit in the report and it's so is are the police the problem or are these judges and these Das the problem only about one in five aites actually takes part in the local elections the da here was elected by only 62,000 people in a county of 2 million and most of the people involved are AAL that's affluent white female liberals that's not my term that's their term don't get mad at me about that and did you guys know that Austin tried to elect a crossdressing homeless guy from mayor wants it's true and then there's this guy Chaz Moore he just got a key to the city he's an activist with a felony record who believes that nobody should be in jail nobody for nothing I believe we can get to a place where we don't have police and where there's no prisons he said and then they made October 22nd Chaz Mo day what is happening in Austin the people who moved here who act like Austin's la la land or in denial they just don't want to admit what's happening you can't call your cool friends back in LA and tell them that the place you moved to is turning into the place you left can you where's Austin headed at this rate cuz it was a wonderful place everyone was like Austin's great and now I all I hear about is people saying Austin's ruined well a lot of people look at Austin the way that Austin was you know in the 80s and 90s and it was a completely different place like I I never lived here I don't know what the vibe was um you know when I got here in 2012 people people said Austin was dead then oh you know we miss old Austin and it's a complete 180 from what it was even then you know and it's it slid further to the left the radical left politically um and it's just it's growing like there's just so many people here and I think a lot of people are coming here expecting to have it be this Utopia and it's it's not it's far from a Utopia you know it's it's extremely expensive housing prices rent prices everything's out of control here and I think people move here and they think it's going to be one big 27 or 24/7 party like you know it's ACL all the year all South by Southwest all the time that's not the case at all that's Jeff that's the Austin police officer who showed me around when I was here we hear more from Jeff later and now this is Cleo she's one of the founders of save Austin now a volunteer group of citizens that wants to well save Austin now that we had homeless people under bridges in sweltering heat without access to water without access to toilets um we saw you know barbecue pits uh open air drug use prostitution uh next to elementary schools in underserved areas and that's why I got involved is because I was not noticing that the poorest communities underserved areas were the ones that were being overwhelmed because they do not have the political connections the workwith all to call their council members say hey what's going on here this is not safe for my my neighborhood my kids aren't able to access their park or walk to school what's happening so I became their basic spokesperson because I grew up in communities like that and at the end of the day and I it doesn't matter to me whether you're left right or anything in the middle what matters to me is that we improve the quality of life for all all all people here in Austin we'll also hear more from Cleo later too stick around for that now I have an entire video about how bad the homeless problem is here now you should watch that but I can say after driving around for 4 days there were bums all over the place and people told me this is nothing Nick you should have seen this a year ago this is good compared to back then so this is good I guess a lot of people don't want to come to downtown anymore it's Shady down here there's shootings and stabbings Place smells like piss there's yelling it's just really not enjoyable to be down here anymore and keep in mind this was the best place to live in America for years back before Co but Austin dropped once again on the best places to live list one guy just told Fox News we were the best place to live now we're turning into Detroit and Seattle what it's not that bad here did you know Texas got called the second worst place to live what ination Mappy not my Texas damn it this is where my people were born and raised back when we were tots if we didn't work hard we didn't eat and now they're handing out big stacks of bread so folks can go out and buy whiskey and women it ain't Fair it ain't right and it ain't American maybe Elon Musk will figure out a way to send these people to space [Music] now despite all this shitty stuff going on here there's a lot of good downtown Austin still fun there's lots of culture there a lot of energy down here they got a bunch of high-paying jobs and Innovation Google Apple Oracle Tesla that sort of stuff and remember this is home to Texas instruments in Motorola there was a lot of Buzz about this place some years ago people were saying Austin's the new Silicon Valley it took San Francisco 40 years to become a tech Hub this place was taken half that I read somewhere that 80% of this downtown's been built in the last 15 years but there's a lot of people that moved here for the tech scene they were kind of like uh this is a little less techy and booming than we were told and now driving around you're starting to see a lot more vacant downtown Austin has the third highest vacancy rate in the nation that's not good building condos make sense down here and apparently building business space does not anymore there's construction everywhere here now I'm not from Austin but I'd imagine the old-timers would say that they're taking away the funky weird and they're making it all flashy like Dallas cuz seemed like every corner in downtown there was something going on some new buildings they were fixing up old buildings the gentrification and sterilization of Austin is in full force now [Music] like check this out this is rainy street it's always been one of the coolest little pockets in downtown it's a whole street of funky restaurants and bars and stuff well not anymore look at this they're literally building up and around all the old stuff or they're just tearing this all down completely it's loud even rainy Street my driver who also happens to be my best friend she and I went down to one of the bars on rainy street but it was hard to chillax with all the construction everywhere one of the bartenders told me that rainy is going to be one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Texas once it's done 7,000 new units and more to come downtown Austin's struggling now though a lot of people work from home so they don't have to come down here and deal with bums and all the new crime seems like the soft hipster Tech Bros don't want to step in bum poop even though they voted for it somebody I know who lives here said Nick Austin doesn't feel like Austin anymore feels like just any other big city now it's all being replaced by soulless businesses paid for by groups of investors everything's getting chifi that sucks I'm going to show you some of the nicer neighborhoods now we looked at the bad stuff already there's fancy neighborhoods all over Austin this one here we're in is called Terry town and these homes are expensive let me tell you that this whole area was moderately priced for a long time but not anymore a lot of what you're seeing now is in the2 to3 million range welcome to today's America right if you want to move here in your middle class well you can't move here where we are now has become the third most unaffordable County in the country well I mean there's plenty of affordable in Austin it's just that you can't afford it you don't deserve to live here it's more than 500k for a home now and the average salary here is only 60k most of these people are just fine though the ones that got in they're home prices have gone up 40% in 4 years back in 2010 this place was kind of big but now people say it feels like it's getting as big as Dallas 280,000 people have moved to Austin since 2017 there's going to be a million people here by the time you watch this maybe and boy did this place boom during Co everybody wanted to come here it was like white flight from the 60s except instead of white people fleeing black neighborhoods it's West Coast people fleeing high costs and bums they did a poll here not too long ago including all the new people who were here and Texas people were like too many people now too much some say Austin's the new California I heard there's Realtors here that call it califia some Realtors have just stopped answering their calls from California area codes and by the way if you still want to move here after all this I do know a lot of realtors in the area that I can connect you to so email me links in the bio I think the only good home price news here is that maybe this place was a victim of its own popularity home prices here are down 10% since the peak that's the biggest housing crash in the country and homes here sit on the market way longer now and it was just announced that Austin had the fifth highest number of people leaving that's just nuts what a turnaround right I mean Grant Cardone the rich Financial investor guy he said there's only two real estate markets he wouldn't touch it's Seattle and here and both are Tech hubs ruined by high home prices and bombs and housing speculators and aab BNB and foreign investors check this thing out the domain my God I can't leave the nice part of town and not talk about the domain it there super duper modern outdoor mall on the north end of town totally over the top but there's this all over Austin Now new and fancy stuff like this round every corner I think the locals here should join up with the people in Montana on a Facebook group so they can both moan and groan together about all this you can book a [Music] mobile when I was out and about in Austin well I think I did more here than I've ever done in a city there's just so much to do we were here for 5 days damn it this is the Little Longhorn Saloon fun honky Tonky kind of place where you can get some SS and make some new friends but the reason I'm here isn't for that I'm here for chicken Bingo yep you buy some tickets for a few bucks a piece and then you stand around and you hope the chicken shits on your square and lots of people turn out for this there lines all over the place there's all kinds of rules you know that but remember when the chicken picks a number it's in its own chicken picking way it's actually not as exciting as it sounds there's a lot of standing around I mean it doesn't usually happen very fast chickens take their time few hundred people watching them poop talk about pressure and then finally you get poop [Applause] excuse exuse Ticket listen up listen up if your ticket says number nine you're going to meet me at the front of the building h i didn't win close though she was standing right over my spot with her Prairie dogger hanging out for a minute or two we're go inside the Broken Spoke and have some honky toning there's all sorts of other neighborhoods in Austin that are fun on the south side's another Hood they call South Lamar it's a bunch of weird trendy hip stuff up and down this whole neighborhood since I was in Texas I had to get to a honky tonk but not just any Honky Tonk as I learned the Broken Spoke or the spoke as they call it and look at this place I had no idea what was in store for me that [Music] night [Music] since they had the best chicken fried steak in town had to get that and it was good real good and I sat at table eight which was fitting since I once rode a bull for 8 seconds JK point 8 seconds maybe look at all these famous people who have performed here George G Willie that's when music was good that's when music was meaningful so we were just finishing up supper and then people started coming in and queuing up and I was like what's happening then I went to see where everybody was going around the corner into the back of the building and found this I was like holy I had no idea that whole back area was even here I thought the dance hall part was just the front Jesus look at this place I had no idea this was back here I was just having dinner and there's this giant huge place oh my God and that stays right there all these Texans gussied up and all I was so jelly of their fits if I didn't have a month ahead of me I'd have two-stepped and boot scooted boogied all over that joint but I had to be an adult and get my responsible ass back to the hotel and all but wow the Broken Spoke the last of the true Texas dance halls where you can get away from Austin and back back in time to Real Texas old Texas and looking back I think that was about as real old school Texas as I saw in the entire trip and I'm sad about that they even got a trough to piss in that's real Texas right there isn't it now after that chicken night we went to woodr to hang out they didn't have food but no biggie they said just go next door and get you some tacos one taco but you can't just get one uh-uh this place is the but just look at that wow I mean I didn't have a bad Taco the entire time I was in Austin I think that's kind of impossible oh man they got all the famous artists up in here including Jose Jose and lucerito what lucer Dang oh my God best tacos I've ever had I said a lot of that on this trip I sure did eat my way across Austin when we were here I mean the food trucks they are a big deal here mister I think the food trucks have better food than the brick and mortars do check this place out Granny's came highly recommended and it was just one random place we picked out of like a hundred this is how they do it here and they do it right it was so good my God how do these people do it and how does everybody here not get bat on tacos I would as soon as we got off the plane we were greeted by the smell of beans there's Mexican food everywhere here peblo vijo Tacos de trampo breakfast tacos at the coffee shops there's even takas in the car wash place assadas came highly recommended place was kind of too fancy for my taste but look at this food Taco Tuesday for the win it wasn't just all Mexican food though I ate other things come on now one day for lunch I chose stubs because people told me I needed to just simple Place really no frills just the way I like it and the whole back area behind stubs really goes off look at this joint stubs with the giant stage for music and all the cool bars back here and that is a meal right there boy and a lone star I'd have a lot of those on this trip I very quickly acquired a taste for their long neck bottles it's an old paps beer that Miller Brews now over in Fort Worth good stuff and in case you didn't know the lone star bottle caps have these puzzles that people like to try and solve I did a lot of solving but most of them were too hard or too hard to read my God now I'm getting older but think I need glasses to look at this [Music] hey oh my God this shit's crazy Sixth Street came highly hyped it's their main drag downtown with all the Honky Tonks and bars and restaurants and it is off the chain it's very loud very iny face super crowded and actually pretty dirty and I wasn't even here on a weekend and this place is just crazy during the festivals that come into town a lot of people and look at that the tiniest bar in Texas [Music] Maybe there's live music all over Austin I mean they're the live music capital of the world damn it Stevie Ray vaugh was discovered in Austin so were a bunch of other people Willie lived here for a while back when the armadillo was the only joint in town that was real Austin back when songwriters were funky and refused to follow the crowd unlike the music writers in Austin today they're all [Music] woke this threw me off even the airport has live music never seen that before the Austin Airport has many stages with performers look at this big stage at the airport people we can have a good [Music] time we were here for so long we had sunny days dreary days and super bad stormy days but that's Texas God oh my gosh C there was so much other new stuff to see I mean I just got to Texas and my eyes were wide open soon as we got to town we had to go to the HB to get groceries I'm going to show you a lot more on HB when we get to San Antonio next but this place is a big deal to Texans and right away I learned you got to know Spanish here that was pretty much the only white guy in there same thing over at Walmart just awful hard to communicate with people and this is the capital of Texas but you can feel like a bigner in your own land when Jeff and I were looking at the bad size of Austin he took me to see the houses where they filmed the hit TV show Friday Night Lights yes folks that show was based out of Texas and they filmed a lot of Friday Night Lights here in Austin and I love that show hey coach here's coach Eric Taylor's house looks kind of rough doesn't it I don't think coach Taylor would be happy about this and then down the road we saw Tim rigin's old house and look they have a sign up and everything downtown we kept seeing this mobile Vape truck with Delta H in it in case you don't know that's pretty much pot fake pot Vans driving around downtown and then we saw this some upscale mobile Bar Lounge thing never seen one of those before this was on the nice side of town in the area we saw earlier you see some cowboy stuff walking around Austin just to remind you you're in Texas and all not as much as I wish I saw but it was around not every bu was dressed up like that though this is Austin casual I guess so we were just in some random Austin hood and we came across the famous Cathedral of junk it's so big you can see it from down the street I'm sure the neighbors hate this particular way to go is kind of a maze so you're going to have to explore okay however there's a tire staircase in the yellow area goes to the Second Story okay there's another set of stairs by the refrigerator the third story there's pictures in this little shed kind of a timeline how I got started if you're interested I've got a donation box right there and bug spray if you need it and then 3:00 I'm calling it a day that's Vince he's the cathedral's designer a lot of this crap was donated by people and he just started making this giant pile out of it it grew from there he started this thing in 1998 and he thinks there are 60 tons of guarded clutter here now I tell you what it's totally Austin and the city sent Engineers down here and they've threatened to tear it down but they couldn't find a real reason to since it seems structurally sound people have parties and weddings and even funerals here it's weird but it's Austin Austin's home to the University of Texas which is pretty much connected to downtown it's a pleasant college campus but I don't think I've ever been to one that wasn't there's more than 50,000 students here the campus didn't seem as weird as I thought it would and that's where the Texas football team plays they're pretty good traffic yuck traffic is bad here I feel like I was always sitting in traffic look at that traffic and they have these going to be self-driving electric cars all over town trying to see if one day we don't need drivers at all look at that middle of the day right through downtown but that's not Texas where's the damn big old coal spewing trucks Austin's not that bad a place to live yet it's still weird and funky and laidback and the culture is wonderful but it's nowhere near as great as it once was it's expensive and dangerous gross and it's lost a lot of itself along the way people think Austin's this Utopia this smug little place that looks down on Dallas and Houston like they're better than everyone not anymore they aren't now it's just a normal City that's getting worse just another American Casualty welcome to America Austin everybody came to get away from expensive and crime and bums but that's what this place has become Austin hasn't really been a part of Texas for a long time now but this is way beyond weird and if Austin's ruined and we're seeing this happen in all of our big cities then is all of America ruined Austin isn't the first capital of Texas some Texans say it might not be the last Don't Mess with Texas hell we're messing with their damn selves that there's the most iconic state flag of all now these days some folks would say that one star is a review I'm a Democrat right so um a mom I live here in Dallas born and raised in Texas and what we have here in Austin and what we see in major cities all across America is far-left progressives that have basically undermined local politics and we've seen them hurt the very communities that they say they care for my parents are Mexican immigrants I grew up in underserved Community my best friend was shot in the back uh when I was a teenager um her mom was a prostitute like I grew up in the hood and one thing that I do not appreciate from these far-left activists is pretending like what they're doing is actually helping these communities which we know these communities have been the breeding ground for violent crime open air drug use open camping um they're they taken over their parks with uh elicit Behavior drug activity um I can go on and on but because that we have seen for example when I talk to elected officials Democrats friends of mine you know that I either volunteered for campaigns locally or nationally they'll say Cleo I agree with you but you know we I can't do anything about it you know we have to you know go with the with whatever locally is happening and what we have are DSA Democrat socialists of America radicals far-left progressives they have infiltrated our local politics because regular Austin nights aren't really that political right yeah I have some ways that I feel like I'm more uh left than most people but uh overall I'm not thinking about politics every day I'm thinking about raising my family sending my son to school safely holding down a job you know everything that most Austin Knights are busy doing right we don't have time to go to City Council meetings and you know virtue signal that oh we want rights for the homeless Community because of you know whatever they feel like they haven't been served like absolutely there should be a plan for the homeless and we need homeless Community to have Services mental health drug inter drug intervention but letting that supersede the the the community and and saying that they can do whatever they want that is not going to get accountability to the homeless Community for example and so when you have DSA radicals and especially in college towns like here in Austin with UT you have a lot of young people that have the time and are highly activated to go to City Council meetings you'll see them if you download videos You'll see them every week at the meetings all day long with their signs you know talking about they are talking about issues that most austinites do not agree with but unfortunately most austinites are busy working or raising families to be a part of the political machine here in Austin uh we will continue to see these you know loud activists infiltrate our our local government when you think about again the dystopia and Trifecta defunding the police in 2020 electing uh prosecutors through the help of George Soros in 2020 uh these far-left prosecutors have we've seen them drop cases uh release habitual offenders you know people who have aggravated sexual assault released them with several uh a long offense history to further perpetrate and uh and on and and victimize more community members and unfortunately a lot of these community members live in vulnerable communities like the one I grew up in then you have the open camping and the open air drug use that has been rampant across the country I was thinking earlier that the one the two things that kind of save us from looking like Seattle uh San Francisco Portland is that we did not uh vote for the you know uh $200 you don't prosecute like so we don't have these massive ring of thefts that you see going on that are shutting down businesses across the country and other liberal cities um and we also do not have um a harm harm reduction uh able to use drugs right thankfully we have and I say this as a Democrat that we have a republican governor and a republican majority that has reigned that in and every in every step unfortunately or fortunately for me where we've defunded the police the state came back and passed a law that would uh uh penalize cities that defunded their police from this point on and that and because of that we were able to return some of the money back all right and the open campaign we passed the state law and Matt and I in with save Austin now we passed a Citywide campaign B that was voted overwhelmingly by democrats here in Austin so as you can tell by these you see that the majority of austinites do not support these far-left extreme ideas and um it's unfortunate that you know people will Gaslight you and say oh it's not that bad and you know you should you know it's just a part of growing in a major city that's not true when you look at the homicides in Austin right before defunding the police we we had about an average of 30 homicide Ides a year to this to today we've tripled our homicide rate every year right that is astronomical and should be unacceptable this should there should be alarm Bells going on right but they'll again they'll say oh it's just a part of a growing city when you look at the the curve or the the the chart for population right for Austin it's going like this or no it's going like this the population for Austin and now you see the population for them homicides going like this like it isn't because our population is growing they're not growing together right so obviously there is a huge issue that is that is not being addressed if we continue to elect far-left council members District Attorneys judges that are not holding uh habitual offenders accountable that are not uh enforcing the law like the camping ban that are not finding uh treatment centers uh mental health uh uh institutionalizing people that need to be institutionalized we cannot let them continue to to to to devolve in in out in public you know needing drug treatment needing Mental Health Access needing drug uh uh proper psychotropic care um and let them just continue to think okay they're just going to get better on their own that's not happening did you ever think Austin would get this way no no I wasn't I was only I'm I'm a Democrat that just got involved in National politics like I just assumed you know locally I would wish it would go back to being boring right that I didn't know who our council member was or that the mayor was right but now I know exactly who the far-left council members are and unfortunately they are a majority here and um and it's hard to pass something and that is why Matt and I have a a Republican and a Democrat have joined forces to really focus on quality of Life issues and show this stuff has nothing to do with politics this has everything to do with the the quality of life for everyone and we we need to take politics out of it and say are these policies making our lives better here do you feel safer do you feel like your child can go to school and be safe so is Austin ruined or is Austin ruined right now Austin is ruined right now and I think we're at that precipice where it's it's make or break and we we unfortunately uh when you look at other cities like port and Seattle we see where it could go right and we have actual visual examples of like okay they've tried this they've tried the harm uh open a drug use the not Prosecuting drugs not Prosecuting theft for a couple years now now we have seen the consequence of that and we have the opportunity to say no we're not going to go in that direction not only by legislators and and our El other local officials but by the the electorate right we cannot be asleep anymore and that is what it's going to take it's going to take examples from you guys in the media to show the real issue here and uh it's a good thing when I see you know CNN Fox uh others focus in on Austin and what's what's happening here because you rightly should what's happens here is happening in all other cities and that is saving us and again like I said earlier we we live in a Republican state like we the Republican Governor is this is where he lives this is where legislators live where they Park their cars where their cars are broken into right you know they see what's going on here and a lot a lot of our bills that we helped uh either testify or were a part of like the da a response to the far-left progressive that if far-left Progressive District Attorneys and City uh attorneys C uh if they're not uh Prosecuting crime um they not City attorney if the far far left district attorney and County attorney if they're not Prosecuting crime they can be removed this pass on bipartisan support because they get it like they can be victims of crime too sooner or later these far-left deleters that thought you know we this was going to be a utopian world where no one is going to have to pay a consequence for their crime that we can just you know let homeless be wherever they want that there won't be any accountability sooner or later it's going to reach your doorstep and we're at that point now and uh now we will see uh uh now I feel that we will get more uh uh people from all walks of life to be more engaged uh you know thankful for your your spending time here because this is what it will take to educate voters because I I'm I'm pretty confident you you get all kinds of uh viewers you know not one way or the other but people that have the ability to use crit their critical thinking skill and say hey hey 1+ 1 isn't equaling two what's going on here and um you know that's what it's it's going to have to take you're not going to stop people from moving here people are still coming here there's new construction going up all over this city you saw it driving around how many new apartment complexes did we see today driving around that just here you know all is new construction that being said it's you know we didn't have two we didn't have recruiting classes for 2 years when they reimagined the academy you know after after they defunded us which people don't want to believe happened it did they took a third of our budget and you know people dispute that that happened they adamant that we were never defunded well we were and you can go back and you can look at Governor Greg Abbott's tweets you know in the early part of 20121 where he was basically threatening the city that if you don't refund the police I'm going to start cutting state state funding you know it's it's not going to say that if we were fully staed or fully fully funded so you know by the time we did get um the money money back because he instituted a state law that once you have a certain budget as any Police Department in this state you can never have lower than what you were it can only go up and you know the people here love the point that yeah you know you have a record budget great you know you could give us every every dollar sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Ukraine you could give us the 140 billion or whatever we're now you know at that we've given them it's not going to put bodies on the street it's not going to put cops on the street you it's it's not going to do any of that and that's our biggest thing is that we need more people here and we don't have it and it not only puts the public at risk it puts us as officers at risk you know it's you know we had this conversation I said look I'm proud of this profession um I'm proud of what I do would I want any loved one of mine going into this no do something else you know and you I read something recently that in Harris County where where Houston is it's got a bad violent crime problem half their homicides were committed by people that were out on bond you know you should be behind bars well you're back on the streets committing more crime so um you know the solution is is that police we've become sort of the Band-Aid for society you know we're supposed to be you know social workers mental health workers all of these things and we were never meant to do all of that it's just it's too much to put on anybody's plate yet we're the ones that are are the ones that need to be doing all this we're the ones that are taking all the blame for it we're the ones that somehow well it's the police not doing their job jobs well for the most part we are but we're one part of the justice system and the thing is is that again like I said we can keep arresting people and you know if you're not convicting them if you're not getting people off the streets that need to be off the streets if you're just putting recidivist screw-ups back on the streets because of this they're somehow victims of society rather than their people who need to be behind bars nothing's ever going to change and it's not only just Austin I think Austin is one of the big obviously it's Austin is uh uh I hate to say petri dish but Austin shown that that's what's going on here it's in almost every major city in the country it's all the same thing you know they're all you know most cities in this country are left leaning you know they have left leaning judges left leaning Das and it's just this soft on crime approach and we've seen that like it's turned cities into holes I think the solution is you know the solution is there but the thing is you need to have people to come in that want to do this job and you're having a hard cell now you're having a hard cell to have people come in to say look this is a job where you can be shot at you can be killed you can be seriously injured you know this is the one thing I'll say is that you know I work with some of the finest people that I've ever met I work with some of the finest humans that I've ever met that I've been in the middle of things that you know I'm glad those people were there um I've seen extreme amounts or extreme examples of heroism extreme examples of compassion and empathy and all the positive human emotions that you know that Humanity has um but I've also seen a city that really doesn't appreciate any of that and I think that that's kind of Nationwide now where you know the silent majority they're not really the majority anymore you know it's the oh the silent majority supports you well it's time for that silent majority to not be silent anymore you need to step up because this country needs cops and it needs them desperately and the more that you demonize this are there bad absolutely they're bad cops I'd be the first one to admit they're bad cops there are people who should not be wearing this badge but the overwhelming majority of them are good people that despite the cliche yeah they put their lives on the line every day they know that when they go to work might not be coming home today and I experienced that personally and I'm still here I'm still doing the job um but you know I think that unfortunately there is a large segment of society a large segment of the population that just really disconnected as to what's really going on in most cities and the one thing I'll say to all your viewers everybody that watches your Channel Wherever You Are whatever City you live in go fill out the paperwork and go on a ride out go sit in that seat with a cop ride around see what actually goes on in your city the parts that you don't think exist the parts that you like I don't go over there and see what they're dealing with and go into it with an open mind that's what I'll say is just go in it with an open mind and really kind of see what what America actually kind of is in some places so well I mean it's it's an honor Nick I've been watching your channel for quite a while probably like The Last 5 Years and uh the love of my life is from North Carolina and we were she was here visiting me in Texas we were watching your channel and I clicked on one of your videos about North Carolina and you said that it was not a Southern state and she sat right up and kind of went oh no he did not and looked at me and said you know that burns my my biscuits uh her parents uh you know her dad's got a southern draw like a red bone Hound but I mean that with the utmost love and her mama makes the best chicken pastry and skillet cornbread in the South so got to say it's a Southern state brother yeah all right that's f are you looking to move and need advice I do Consulting that's right I'll sit down and talk about where the next perfect place for you and your family should be I do it all the time together let's find you a new home that safe and checks all your boxes and I can also help you find your new house too email me and I'll work with you on not just helping you figure out where to move but I can help you find your perfect home too that's right I know awesome reliable agents all over the country and I'd love to connect you to somebody who 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Published: Tue Jan 02 2024