Our Governor, Gregg Abbott commented a few days ago in a message to city mayors in the state, "If you defund your police force, we (the state) will defund your city."
I lived there at one time and went to Seattle University's School of Law. Enough said. Left the day after graduation. Only visit to fly fish for steelhead and salmon, or when passing through Seatac to Anchorage, Alaska.
Ain't that the damn truth! + not just their idiocy in general but also their misconception of property values that is causing our tax base to go out of sight.