With a 10-1 vote last week, City Council approved a multiyear contract with the Austin Police Association that will, in the next few years, force city leaders to weigh costly financial decisions. In the more immediate future, the contract could result in a severe disruption to Austin’s civilian police oversight system, which is still fledgling more than a year after voters approved the Austin Police Oversight Act but is beginning to produce the transparency that the local ordinance promised.
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