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DAA: Downtown safety team helping with loitering, drug, harassment issues
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The Downtown Austin Alliance's (DAA) Downtown Safety team is now fully staffed with 23 members. While they don’t have the authority to make arrests, they can assist in getting people off of private property if issues arise and bridge the gap between the community and the police department. PREVIOUS: New ‘safety officers’ working downtown Austin The program launched earlier this year with just a few officers and became fully staffed in October. "They're wearing bright yellow shirts, they're trying to assist people on the street," said Bill Brice with the DAA. "To increase perceptions of safety downtown but also to address low level non-emergency issues

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