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As a result of the Legislature’s decades of failures on this issue, those in need of mental health treatment ultimately end up in the criminal justice system, exacerbating their mental health issues and increasing the likelihood that they will return to jail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/a7903e76-e957-4504-9702-4ac2ffdf8f11/Screen+Shot+2026-09-29+at+11.51.30+AM.png Blog - How the Texas Lege Has Failed To Help Mental Health - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/6cae7cfc-5bde-4e7a-aa2a-481a803495b4/Screen+Shot+2026-09-29+at+11.54.29+AM.png Blog - How the Texas Lege Has Failed To Help Mental Health - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.austinforeveryone.com/blog/30-years-of-broken-promises monthly 0.5 2026-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/2d2f06a3-aeda-404d-bcf0-d7bc116c246b/Austin_Capitol_Building_Credit_David_Aguilar_Lifetime_eaba4208-941a-413d-ae54-393d1fb42d74.jpg Blog - 30 Years of Broken Promises: Texas Chooses Punishment Over Treatment - Make it stand out For more than thirty years, Texas lawmakers have known that addiction and the criminal legal system are deeply connected. And for more than thirty years, they've responded the same way: refuse to fund treatment, block harm-reduction tools, and expand criminal penalties. The result: a system where incarceration is the default response, not because it is effective, but because it's what our legislators prefer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/f54cc3be-34a4-4063-bb3a-ee41ddfa8f2b/By+2013%2C+people+sent+to+state+jail+were+rearrested+at+a+rate+of+62.7%25..jpg Blog - 30 Years of Broken Promises: Texas Chooses Punishment Over Treatment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/c1ebd7f0-e2c0-4e4c-8a13-4e3fa3eeb6e1/By+2013%2C+people+sent+to+state+jail+were+rearrested+at+a+rate+of+62.7%25..jpg Blog - 30 Years of Broken Promises: Texas Chooses Punishment Over Treatment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.austinforeveryone.com/blog/crime-in-austin monthly 0.5 2026-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/1786666778681-GWDA3WW0LDFI6G5EFQVE/getty-images-GaHOJDv6i7I-unsplash%281%29.jpg Blog - Crime in Austin: What's True and What's Not - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/30bbee69-a938-46ab-a9e0-bdc75f3b1b51/Screen+Shot+2026-08-10+at+4.59.43+PM.png Blog - Crime in Austin: What's True and What's Not - Make it stand out 55 homicides is still too many, and every one represents a real loss. But context matters — Austin's current homicide rate remains far below where it stood two decades ago, even as the city's population has grown substantially. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/12861fcb-cf80-44f1-b73b-150b340214e9/Screen+Shot+2026-08-20+at+2.36.06+AM.png Blog - Crime in Austin: What's True and What's Not - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/c1f484ed-78e8-4a38-961b-b93325ed42a7/Screen+Shot+2026-08-10+at+5.07.03+PM.png Blog - Crime in Austin: What's True and What's Not - Make it stand out Looking specifically at the years DA José Garza has been in office, data published by the Council on Criminal Justice shows meaningful declines across several major categories: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/5efdf948-9eda-4757-b51d-de7ca75f1494/Screen+Shot+2026-08-10+at+5.08.30+PM.png Blog - Crime in Austin: What's True and What's Not - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b30878aec4c60558d213f8/e7fda5c5-37c6-47f7-aa50-f65884bd3f65/Screen+Shot+2026-08-10+at+5.43.29+PM.png Blog - Crime in Austin: What's True and What's Not - Make it stand out Here's what the ‘70%’ claim looks like translated into actual rates: in 2019, one of the safest years in Austin's recent history, the homicide rate was 3.8 per 100,000 residents. In 2025, it's 5.49. That's real, and it's worth taking seriously, but it's a very different picture from the one implied by a cherry-picked percentage. Claims that Garza is ‘letting murderers go free’ are also false. 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