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Austin Skidrow
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Austin Skidrow
@AustinSkidrow
Documenting and bringing to light the people and organizations determined to bring LA's Skid Row problem to Austin. Politically moderate. Experiencing taxation.
Austin, TX Katılım Ocak 2019
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South Austin residents are frustrated by a massive homeless encampment. This is under the bridge at St. Elmo and Vinson. Residents say they’ve made dozens of 311 requests. The Homeless Strategy Office says they’ll address this.
@fox7austin
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Austin Skidrow retweetledi
Under L.A. mayor's $300-million homeless program, 40% have returned to the street latimes.com/california/sto…
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Homeless hang out and take over Austin's bus stops. This makes me wonder how bad it has to get before Austin actually does something about it. Hopefully not this bad.
Matthew Seedorff@MattSeedorff
VIDEO: A viewer tells me concerns about a Metro bus stop at Melrose & Vine in LA’s Larchmont area. They say one person has taken over the stop and has been seen throwing liquor bottles… despite repeated reports, nothing appears to be done. This location has a troubling history: months ago, another homeless person was found dead here after prior concerns were raised. The resident tells me: “I reported this to LAHOP and CD13 before—last time, the person I flagged was later found dead on that same bench.”
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Hey I'm visiting Austin from Japan, I tried to take the train today to go have bbq bc it was rush hour. Here are my observations:
1) train from downtown to crestview was clean and felt safe, office people commuting, was able to buy a ticket on the train easily
2) get out at crestview and it's like the walking dead, fent zombies passed out everywhere, homeless all over the station, disgusting and unsafe. To walk the 10 minutes to bbq place there's also homeless occupying every bus stop just passed out or hanging out, nowhere to sit for normal ppl who would want to take transit. They try to talk to you, F off
3) on way back i'm only one apart from homeless at the station so I feel even more unsafe, always watching over my shoulder until train arrives. Homeless occupy the seats so don't feel comfortable sitting
4) on train I can't even buy ticket, conductor says only senior conductors have tap to pay like wtf???
Until Austin removes homeless from occupying all the stations and public spaces of transit you'll never convince normal ppl to take it. You have to decide if you want a transit system or a moving homeless shelter, pick one
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The cities that have actually reduced street homelessness share the same playbook: make the streets less attractive than the shelter, use courts to force treatment, and measure success by whether fewer people are living on the street.
San Diego required officers to offer shelter at every contact, then escalate. Overall homelessness down 14% in one year.
Houston cleared encampments, paired enforcement with shelter, and held itself accountable to one number: people sleeping outside. Overall down 33% since 2020.
Miami-Dade built courts that compel treatment for the seriously mentally ill instead of leaving them to cycle between sidewalk and ER. Recidivism dropped from 75% to 20%.
As New York's own court system put it: treatment programs work better when backed by a credible threat of jail. Without it, courts "lack the leverage to induce offenders to opt for rigorous treatment."
California spent $24 billion on homelessness over five years and poured massive "investments" into housing. Its own auditors couldn't evaluate whether it worked, as outcomes were never tracked.
Austin just passed a homelessness plan that tracks meeting attendance, contract timelines, and staff training hours. It sets no target for reducing people sleeping on the street. It does nothing to make the street less attractive -- and by expanding services without enforcement, it may draw more people in.
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@bmwm3gtr2004 @JamieBonkiewicz They've allocated plenty of money to help the homeless. And it seems like the more they allocate, the more homeless we get.
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@AustinSkidrow @JamieBonkiewicz Okay, so your politicians are instead allocating money to removing paint on sidewalks instead of actually helping homeless people
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"Your generation is so soft" says the ones triggered by a fucking rainbow
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
HAPPENING NOW: The city of Dallas, Texas, has begun removing all gay pride rainbow crosswalks from the city. The move comes after Texas Governor Greg Abbott made the order back in October. About time.
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Austin is going to find a way to take more money out of your pocket one way or another.
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Austin councilmember asks the capmetro police if there are some routes they could put an officer on more frequently
Police chief says they don’t put officers on the bus
What?! We need uniformed officers on the bus! Let APD respond to calls. Bus officers are needed for safety
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Austin catalytic converter theft exploded under DA José Garza.
In his first year in office, thefts jumped 227% increase over the pre-Garza baseline in a single year. The following year hit 1,971. The two highest years in the dataset, by far, are both Garza years.
Numbers have since declined -- not because of anything the DA's office did, but because the Texas leg stepped in with tougher state laws in 2023 requiring metal recyclers to verify ownership and imposing stiffer penalties.
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All of this will be taken into consideration when I have the final say on the fate of the police officer.
This DA's failure to prosecute murderers & repeatedly letting dangerous criminals go free, while prioritIzing prosecuting police, will have consequences.
foxnews.com/politics/soros… #FoxNews
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Soros-backed Austin DA faces resignation calls over alleged 'secret meetings' in case against cop trib.al/sz9Yqo5
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AUSTIN MAN skips court on felony gun and stolen car charges - caught five months later with meth, cocaine, a loaded gun, two more stolen cars, and more than a dozen stolen identities.
That's Terrin Kapper, 33, who has about 30 charges in Travis County.
His record:
• Burglary of habitation: probation
• Felony cocaine possession: probation.
• Fired a gun in a residential neighborhood: felony charge dismissed entirely; second case reduced to a misdemeanor, 180 days county jail
• Terroristic threat against a family member: declined to prosecute
• Running a theft and identity fraud ring along the I-35 corridor, pawning stolen goods using a woman's stolen ID: organized crime charge still pending
In August 2024, arrested with a gun as a felon and a stolen car. Identity theft charges: no charges filed. Gun charge: indicted. He skipped court and absconded.
Caught last month. New charges:
• Felon in possession of a firearm
• Meth possession
• Cocaine possession
• Two stolen vehicle charges
• Fraud using 10+ stolen identities (second-degree felony)
• Unlawful use of criminal instrument
19 cases since 2013. 0 jury trials.
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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.
Austin Justice@AustinJustice
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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@LoewyLawFirm Knowing people at the city who have to work with City Legal, I can tell you the department is amazingly incompetent. They need a complete change of leadership.
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The City has been this shit ever since I did cases like this 20 years ago.
Every single person in City Legal and Management and Council knows this case will obviously settle.
So do a mediation and get it done.
It’s absolutely embarrassing how much money they still blow litigating like this.
ATX data@data_atx
The Statesman is urging city council to settle the SWAT house damage case They did $23k in damage and are spending $600k on lawyers claiming the city has immunity Especially ironic now that council is wanting DA to go after ICE for property damage statesman.com/opinion/editor…
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Austin Skidrow retweetledi
Denver spent $684 million (tracked through city accounts only) on homelessness from 2023–2025.
The city moved people into $59 K/year hotel shelters, and total homelessness went up from 4,794 in 2022 to 10,774 in 2025.
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@AustinJustice @AustinSkidrow I have ten years documented of informing the community about this corruption.
Are Austinites incapable of maintaining oversight of their community?
What keeps citizens so helpless in preventing Austin from becoming one huge homeless encampment.
The City has, and always will lie.
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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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The point of spending $81k per homeless person isn't to solve homelessness, it's to spend $81k per homeless person paying people to pretend to solve homelessness
NY Post Opinion@NYPostOpinion
NYC burning $81K per homeless person — with nothing to show for it trib.al/YauQgGP
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