'California is looking at our backside,' Texas Gov. Rick Perry says in San Francisco

[DonCoquixote]

121. La Cops

La cops may be bad, but in texas, the police have been nationally ridiculed for being the arm of White authority:

http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/category/corrupt-cops/
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/corrupt-texas-cops-judges-attorneys-kidnap-child_04252011
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/racial-profiling-texas-report-shows-significant-disparities-stops-and-searches
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2011/03/central-repository-for-tx-racial.html

and yes, that includes blue little Austin, as the last link shows:

"For that matter, agencies exhibit widely disparate patterns in how they approach searches in general, particularly how frequently so-called "consent searches" are used. At the Austin PD, for example, just 5.7% of searches conducted were consent searches, while at Houston PD they made up 30.4%. "

Wow, when your cops ask for consent to search at a much lower rate than Houston does, that says a lot. 5.7 percent.

As far as schools go:
http://saveaustinschools.com/

Looks like the good schools might not be around for much longer.

The point is not to dump on you, but rather, the BS that Perry is trying to sell. If a guy sitting on his keyboard could find this data, so can an executive who is researching whether or not to move a company to Austin. Ok, we both know the intern will be doing the research, but the fact is there. And the fact is, with all the problems California does have, I know that many of the employees are not going to move to a place where being Gay, Black or Brown means that any cop can harass you and get the approval of most voters.

and while we are talking about schools, let's not forget how Texas is responsible for the dumbing down of textbooks.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155440679/revisionaries-tells-story-of-texas-textbook-battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031700560.html
http://www.nea.org/home/39060.htm

From the post article:
Because the Texas textbook market is so large, books assigned to the state's 4.7 million students often rocket to the top of the market, decreasing costs for other school districts and leading them to buy the same materials.

"The books that are altered to fit the standards become the bestselling books, and therefore within the next two years they'll end up in other classrooms," said Fritz Fischer, chairman of the National Council for History Education, a group devoted to history teaching at the pre-college level. "It's not a partisan issue, it's a good history issue."

When the Washington Post slams you for being too conservative, that is a Black eye. You think executives want their kids being taught that Dinosaurs were the Dragons that walked the earth along with Adam and Eve?