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This November's police staffing measure will cost more than official estimates.

The City's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) released a series of much-cited cost scenarios for Save Austin Now's police staffing ballot measure. However, a critical look at the core assumptions behind those scenarios reveals that the likely costs for Proposition …

The Statesman recently highlighted an increase in homicides from 22 in '09 to 37 in '10.  While the piece provided a compelling visualization with the long-term count of homicides in Austin, it did not provide data that adjusted for the city's population growth.  In the chart below, I provide the …