‘We Are Feeling Overpoliced’: State Troopers Join Patrols in Austin

Scores of state highway troopers, usually found on roadways across Texas in their distinctive cowboy hats and black-and-white patrol vehicles, have descended on Austin, the state capital. Statistics emerged showing that those arrested on misdemeanor charges by state troopers were mostly Black and Hispanic. Along North Lamar Boulevard in northeast Austin, red and blue lights flashed silently in the night, visible from a distance in the low-rise neighborhood, indicating another car stop by state troopers. State troopers, as well as a small number of specialized state police agents who could conduct investigations, helped respond to those calls and reduce the violence, the chief said. The post ‘We Are Feeling Overpoliced’: State Troopers Join Patrols in Austin appeared first on New York Times.