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Tracking Austin’s rogue criminals, prosecutors, and politicians. DMs open.

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To fund police checks on every registered sex offender in Austin, the city would need to cut just 1.25% of its DEI office budget.
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Austin has roughly 2,200 registered sex offenders. Last year, police knocked on just 369 doors. Police checks of sex offenders: Fort Worth: 3,368 San Antonio: 3,092 Austin: 369 In 2024, APD managed about 1,100 checks after putting up overtime funding. Then the city cut that budget. Checks fell 67%. The overtime budget that made 1,100 checks possible in 2024: $40,000. The city cut it. If you do the rough math, it would cost just $79,000/year for the city to do a check on all sex offenders. For comparison: The city's DEI office budget this year: $6.3 million -- up from $5.4 million last year.

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Legally blind man gets stabbed while defending a stabbed passenger on @CapMetroATX He is now out of work for the next several months. The stabbing suspect already had 7 violent felonies on his record. No excuses for the stabbing suspect to be out of jail and enabled to commit more violence.
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In Austin, a visually impaired man had to physically restrain a violent repeat offender on a city bus, got slashed repeatedly, and now must relearn how to walk -- because the prosecutors paid to keep a violent vagrant off the street didn't do their job. Aidan Hearn has ridden CapMetro for over a decade. He looked up, saw someone being attacked, and didn't think twice. He grabbed the vagrant, struggled with him for a minute or two, kicked him into the seat -- and that's when Rogerio Martinez slashed him. Three deep cuts on his hand and two on his calf. A stranger held a tourniquet on Hearn's leg with his belt. Hearn says, with some hindsight, it probably saved it. Hearn had surgery to repair a destroyed artery. He's now facing months of relearning how to walk. Meanwhile, the demented vagrant who put him there had convictions for aggravated robbery, strangling a family member, and beating a security guard in the forehead with her flashlight -- all before he ever got on that bus.

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Austin has roughly 2,200 registered sex offenders. Last year, police knocked on just 369 doors. Police checks of sex offenders: Fort Worth: 3,368 San Antonio: 3,092 Austin: 369 In 2024, APD managed about 1,100 checks after putting up overtime funding. Then the city cut that budget. Checks fell 67%. The overtime budget that made 1,100 checks possible in 2024: $40,000. The city cut it. If you do the rough math, it would cost just $79,000/year for the city to do a check on all sex offenders. For comparison: The city's DEI office budget this year: $6.3 million -- up from $5.4 million last year.
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In Austin, a visually impaired man had to physically restrain a violent repeat offender on a city bus, got slashed repeatedly, and now must relearn how to walk -- because the prosecutors paid to keep a violent vagrant off the street didn't do their job. Aidan Hearn has ridden CapMetro for over a decade. He looked up, saw someone being attacked, and didn't think twice. He grabbed the vagrant, struggled with him for a minute or two, kicked him into the seat -- and that's when Rogerio Martinez slashed him. Three deep cuts on his hand and two on his calf. A stranger held a tourniquet on Hearn's leg with his belt. Hearn says, with some hindsight, it probably saved it. Hearn had surgery to repair a destroyed artery. He's now facing months of relearning how to walk. Meanwhile, the demented vagrant who put him there had convictions for aggravated robbery, strangling a family member, and beating a security guard in the forehead with her flashlight -- all before he ever got on that bus.
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BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

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Austin's jail booking rate has been cut by 53% (per capita) since 2012. Fewer criminals in Austin's jail means more criminals on Austin’s streets.
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Here’s the situation: An Austin cop is on trial related to conduct during the 2020 protests. His lawyers just accused DA José Garza's office of hiding evidence and holding secret meetings with the City of Austin - meetings never disclosed to the defense. The lawyers are asking for a court of inquiry, which is a rarely used Texas proceeding to investigate whether Garza's prosecutors committed felony evidence tampering and official oppression. Garza's response is: let's just go to trial. That's the same DA office that decides which charges get filed, which get dropped, and which repeat offenders walk. Now accused of secretly shaping the outcome of a case while telling the court it had nothing to hide. If the court of inquiry finds what the defense alleges, the question isn't just whether this trial was compromised; it's what else was.
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Travis County DA Jose Garza has been prosecuting an Austin cop for four years for using force during the 2020 protests -- while secretly meeting with city officials about whether the CITY was the one that should have been indicted. Garza's office believed the city handed officers defective equipment and gave the orders. He negotiated with them directly. Then certified to the court that all evidence had been disclosed. But it hadn't. When your political brand is built on holding police accountable, you can't let the city quietly take the fall. So you bury it and keep prosecuting the guy who followed orders.

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It's possible but there’s no evidence of killing in those cases: medical examiners ruled them accidental drownings, and a Texas State/APD review this year found no serial-killer pattern. What keeps happening is alcohol plus dark, unprotected lake edges - tragic, but not mysterious and quite common.
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@AustinJustice You also have to wonder what are considered "homicides" in Travis County. Those bodies they keep pulling out of the lake are always listed as "accidental drownings" ...and maybe they are... maybe.
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Austin's homicide rate is down since 2021. So is every other city in America's -- and most dropped faster. Austin's rate today vs 2021 sits 1.2 points above the national average, which sounds small until you realize: At Austin's population, that's roughly 12 homicides per year that wouldn't exist if Austin had simply kept pace with the rest of the country.
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Run the math on Austin's gap with the national average over the Garza era (2021-present) and you get roughly 45 additional homicides in Austin.
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@cbsaustin First reported on my account yesterday: x.com/AustinJustice/…
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BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

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#NEW: A man who tried to stop a stabbing on a CapMetro bus ended up a victim himself last week, an arrest affidavit says, after the attacker turned his knife on the person who intervened. cbsaustin.com/news/local/aff…
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Austin’s new homeless strategy plan is not to end homelessness but to "pursue new public/private funding" so that Austin's homeless industry can expand. The plan is to build 650 new shelter beds, two new "navigation centers," create a larger bureaucracy, hire more more outreach teams, more contracts, more staff, more KPIs measuring not whether the problem is solved but whether staff attended training. There is no goal trying to reduce the number of the nation's homeless moving to Austin in search of a hospitable environment to live their disordered life. The department that runs this didn't even exist before 2023. It was carved out of City Hall as its own standalone bureaucracy, which now has an incentive to maintaining and growing itself. One performance indicator asks staff to track the percentage of employees who complete 16 hours of training annually. Another tracks whether team-building events happened. These are the measurable benchmarks Austin uses to evaluate its homelessness response. The city has spent hundreds of millions on the current system that funds the growth of “permanent housing” for the homeless through some of the nation's most well-resourced homelessness NGOs. The city is making itself an even more attractive destination of the nation’s homeless, so the nation’s homeless will continue to flock to Austin, and the NGOs will grow and get more funding.
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AUSTIN — Two passengers on a South Lamar bus were having a Bible discussion when vagrant Rogerio Martinez decided he'd heard enough. Martinez stood up with a kitchen knife and stabbed one man in the back mid-conversation, then kept going, while the victim threw up his bare hands trying to defend himself. A stranger -- a hero -- intervened and physically pinned Martinez to a seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Both victims were hospitalized. One critical. Before stepping on the bus, Martinez had four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, and a felony assault reduced to a misdemeanor on his record across multiple counties. Last year he beat an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight hard enough to leave a golf ball-sized welt. He was back on the street, riding a bus. On Friday, two people paid for it with knife stabbings.
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BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

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You can’t walk out the door anymore without a firearm.
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BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

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Travis County DA Jose Garza has been prosecuting an Austin cop for four years for using force during the 2020 protests -- while secretly meeting with city officials about whether the CITY was the one that should have been indicted. Garza's office believed the city handed officers defective equipment and gave the orders. He negotiated with them directly. Then certified to the court that all evidence had been disclosed. But it hadn't. When your political brand is built on holding police accountable, you can't let the city quietly take the fall. So you bury it and keep prosecuting the guy who followed orders.
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