Some residents said they're concerned about the news of another violent crime happening in the city.
"Every day I wonder ‘is my daughter going to get killed today?'" South Austin resident Patricia Potyka said."I base a lot of decisions as to our social life and what we do in accordance with what's going on, because guess what, I'm not willing to take a chance," Potyka said.
Potyka said one of the problems is there aren't enough police officers for the number of crimes occurring in the city. The President of the Austin Police Association said it's common for APD to have two or three officers on a daily shift in certain areas of the city because of staffing issues.According to police, all incidents seem to be isolated.
"As someone who lives here and is law-abiding and has a reverent respect for backing the blue and what our police officers do, but we're in a crisis. We have a big crisis here," Potyka said. As of the end of August, 52 homicides in Austin have been reported this year which is trending close to the record 88 homicides reported last year.
"I can't even go grocery shopping without the fear of constantly looking," Potyka said. "I have grave concerns about the direction our city is headed.""We moved there in 76 when I was 11, and it was a whole different [city], it was real family friendly, you could go out, we ran the streets, never concerned about, and then now you can't do that with your kids," Hand said.
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