Editing Austin, Texas (section)

===Crime===
As of 2019, Austin is one of the safest large cities in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 23, 2020 |title=2019 City of Austin Safety Rankings Now Available |url=https://www.austintexas.gov/news/2019-city-austin-safety-rankings-now-available |access-date=May 27, 2021 |website=austintexas.gov |publisher=City of Austin |archive-date=July 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727192318/https://austintexas.gov/news/2019-city-austin-safety-rankings-now-available |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, the FBI named Austin the 11th safest city on a list of 22 American cities with a population above 400,000.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bowen |first=Kacey |date=December 23, 2020 |title=Austin ranked in top 10 safest large cities in United States |agency=[[KTBC (TV)|KTBC]] |url=https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-ranked-in-top-10-safest-large-cities-in-united-states |access-date=May 27, 2021 |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803211508/https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-ranked-in-top-10-safest-large-cities-in-united-states |url-status=live }}</ref>

FBI statistics show that overall violent and property crimes dropped in Austin in 2015, but increased in suburban areas of the city.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 28, 2016 |title=Violent crime rate drops in Austin, but grows in suburbs, data |url=http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime--law/violent-crime-rate-drops-austin-but-grows-suburbs-data-show/30T89Khh0uESC7qM6tiIGO/ |access-date=January 27, 2017 |website=Mystatesman.com |archive-date=January 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107100520/http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime--law/violent-crime-rate-drops-austin-but-grows-suburbs-data-show/30T89Khh0uESC7qM6tiIGO/ }}</ref> One such southeastern suburb, [[Del Valle, Texas|Del Valle]], reported eight homicides within two months in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eighth body identified in Del Valle |url=http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/215154781-story |access-date=May 25, 2017 |publisher=Fox7austin.com |archive-date=July 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724211313/http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/215154781-story }}</ref> According to 2016 [[Austin Police Department|APD]] crime statistics, the 78723 census tract had the most violent crime, with 6 murders, 25 rapes, and 81 robberies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Zip code report |url=https://austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Zip_Code_Creim_Report_2016.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Zip_Code_Creim_Report_2016.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=June 14, 2019 |website=austintexas.gov}}</ref> The city had 39 homicides in 2016, the most since 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Folan |first=Evan |date=January 2, 2017 |title=2016 homicide rate: El Paso remains steady as Austin, San Antonio experience sharp increase |url=http://www.kvia.com/crime/year-in-review-el-pasos-homicides-compared-to-state-national-trend/243616709 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105083306/http://www.kvia.com/crime/year-in-review-el-pasos-homicides-compared-to-state-national-trend/243616709 |archive-date=January 5, 2017 |access-date=January 27, 2017 |publisher=KVIA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 29, 2016 |title=Austin Murder Total Highest Since 2010 |url=http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/news/2016/12/29/austin-murder-rate-highest-since-2010.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105085218/http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/news/2016/12/29/austin-murder-rate-highest-since-2010.html |archive-date=January 5, 2017 |access-date=January 27, 2017 |website=Twcnews.com}}</ref>

====Notable incidents====
In 1884 and 1885, one of the earliest recorded [[serial killer|serial killings]] in the United States occurred in Austin, in which 8 people were murdered by a suspect known as the "[[Servant Girl Annihilator]]".<ref name=TexasMonthly>{{cite news |last=Hollandsworth |first=Skip |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/capital-murder/ |title=Capital Murder |newspaper=Texas Monthly |date=July 2000}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94680/how-servant-girl-annihilator-terrorized-1880s-austin|title=How the 'Servant Girl Annihilator' Terrorized 1880s Austin|date=2017-04-25|website=www.mentalfloss.com|language=en|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/09/28/the-servant-girl-annihilator/|title=True Crime Society - The Servant Girl Annihilator|date=2019-09-29|website=True Crime Society|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-07|archive-date=2020-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217203117/https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/09/28/the-servant-girl-annihilator/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

One of the first American [[Mass shootings in the United States|mass]] [[school shooting]] incidents took place in Austin on August 1, 1966, when [[Charles Whitman]] shot 43 people, killing 13 from the top of the University of Texas tower.<ref name="texasmonthly.com" /> The [[University of Texas tower shooting]] led to the formation of the [[SWAT]] team of the [[Austin Police Department]].<ref name="texasmonthly.com" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 1, 1966 |title=Paulding County, GA - History of SWAT |url=http://www.paulding.gov/index.aspx?NID=519 |access-date=May 25, 2017 |publisher=Paulding.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 1, 1997 |title=The Birth and Evolution of the SWAT Unit - Article - POLICE Magazine |url=http://www.policemag.com/channel/swat/articles/1997/04/the-birth-and-evolution-of-the-swat-unit/page/2.aspx |access-date=May 25, 2017 |publisher=Policemag.com |archive-date=March 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330090958/http://www.policemag.com/channel/swat/articles/1997/04/the-birth-and-evolution-of-the-swat-unit/page/2.aspx }}</ref>

In 1991, [[1991 Austin yogurt shop murders|four teenage girls were murdered in a yogurt shop]] by an unknown assailant(s). A police officer responded to reports of a fire at the [[I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!]] store on Anderson Lane and discovered the girls' bodies in a back room. The murders remain unsolved.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 19, 2019 |title=True Crime Society - The Yogurt Shop Murders |url=https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/08/18/the-yogurt-shop-murders/ |access-date=May 13, 2020 |website=True Crime Society |language=en-US |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604124209/https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/08/18/the-yogurt-shop-murders/ }}</ref>

In 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his [[Piper PA-28 Cherokee]] into Echelon 1, a building in which the [[Internal Revenue Service]] was a lessee of, housing 190 employees.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2010 |title=IRS Opts for New Address in Austin |url=https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/irs-opts-for-new-address-in-austin/1893031/ |access-date=June 13, 2020 |website=[[KXAS-TV]]}}</ref> The resulting explosion killed one and injured 13 IRS employees, partially damaged the building and cost the IRS a total of $38.6&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 18, 2012 |title=Austin Plane Crash Cost IRS $38.6 Million |url=https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/austin-plane-crash-cost-irs-386-million |access-date=June 13, 2020 |website=[[Accounting Today]]}}</ref> ''(see [[2010 Austin suicide attack]])''

A [[Austin serial bombings|series of bombings]] occurred in Austin in March 2018. Over the course of 20 days, five [[Letter bomb|package bomb]]s exploded, killing two people and injuring another five. The suspect, 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt of [[Pflugerville, Texas]], [[Suicide bombing|blew himself up]] inside his vehicle after he was pulled over by police<!--DO NOT SPECIFY AN AGENCY; REFERENCES INDICATE THAT THIS WAS MULTI-AGENCY OPERATION--> on March 21, also injuring a police officer.<ref name="time_Aust">{{Cite magazine |last=Ducharme |first=Jamie |date=March 21, 2018 |title=Austin Serial Bombing Suspect Identified as Mark Anthony Conditt |url=https://time.com/5207936/austin-texas-bombing-suspect-dead/ |access-date=March 22, 2018 |magazine=Time |archive-date=March 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322022353/http://time.com/5207936/austin-texas-bombing-suspect-dead/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="npr._Mark">{{Cite web |last=Chappell |first=Bill |date=March 22, 2018 |title=Mark Anthony Conditt: What We Know About The Austin Bomber |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/21/595604376/mark-anthony-conditt-what-we-know-about-the-austin-bombing-suspect |access-date=March 22, 2018 |website=NPR |archive-date=March 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321232309/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/21/595604376/mark-anthony-conditt-what-we-know-about-the-austin-bombing-suspect |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2020, Austin was the victim of a [[cyberattack]] by the Russian group [[Berserk Bear]], possibly related to the [[2020 United States federal government data breach|U.S. federal government data breach]] earlier that year.<ref name="intercept-2020-12-17">{{Cite web |last1=Hvistendahl |first1=Mara Hvistendahl |last2=Lee |first2=Micah |last3=Smith |first3=Jordan |date=December 17, 2020 |title=Russian Hackers Have Been Inside Austin City Network for Months |url=https://theintercept.com/2020/12/17/russia-hack-austin-texas/ |website=The Intercept |access-date=December 20, 2020 |archive-date=December 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217234405/https://theintercept.com/2020/12/17/russia-hack-austin-texas/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Austin officials quiet on reports that city network hacked |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-says-austin-s-city-network-hacked-city-says-critical-systems-not-affected/ar-BB1c1kSd |website=www.msn.com |access-date=December 20, 2020 |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416125801/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-says-austin-s-city-network-hacked-city-says-critical-systems-not-affected/ar-BB1c1kSd |url-status=live }}</ref>

On April 18, 2021, a [[shooting]] occurred at the Arboretum Oaks Apartments near [[The Arboretum (Austin, Texas)|The Arboretum]] [[shopping center]], in which a former [[Travis County]] Sheriff's Office [[detective]] killed his ex-wife, his adoptive daughter, and his daughter's boyfriend.<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Alejandro |last1=Martínez-Cabrera|first2=Tony|last2=Plohetski|first3=John|last3=Bacon|title='Danger remains high': Suspect remains at large in fatal shooting of 3 near Austin shopping center |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/18/austin-shooting-what-we-know/7277555002/ |access-date=April 19, 2021 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Statesman.shooting">{{Cite web |date=April 19, 2021 |title=Shooting suspect Stephen Broderick caught near Manor, authorities say; 2 victims identified |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/04/19/shooting-suspect-stephen-broderick-caught-near-manor-authorities-say-2-victims-identified/7283005002/ |access-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419185202/https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/04/19/shooting-suspect-stephen-broderick-caught-near-manor-authorities-say-2-victims-identified/7283005002/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 19, 2021 |title=Austin shooting: Former detective arrested, charged in triple murder after manhunt |url=https://www.kxan.com/news/local/travis-county/austin-shooting-suspect-arrested-wanted-for-killing-3-people/ |access-date=April 19, 2021 |website=KXAN Austin |language=en-US}}</ref> The suspect, who was previously charged with [[child sexual assault]], was arrested in [[Manor, Texas|Manor]] after a 20-hour manhunt.<ref name="CNN.Shooting">{{Cite web |date=April 19, 2021 |title=Authorities arrest a former sheriff's detective wanted in Austin, Texas, shooting that left 3 dead |website=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/us/austin-shooting-three-dead/index.html |access-date=April 19, 2021}}</ref><ref name="USATODAY.Shooting">{{Cite web |date=April 19, 2021 |title=What we know about Austin shooting suspect Stephen Broderick |author-first1=Joe|author-last1=Mutascio|author-first2=Ryan|author-last2=Autullo|website=[[USA Today]] |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/04/18/stephen-broderick-austin-shooting-suspect-arboretum/7278131002 |access-date=April 19, 2021}}</ref>

A mass shooting took place in the early morning of June 12, 2021, on [[Sixth Street (Austin, Texas)|Sixth Street]], which resulted in 14 people injured and one dead. The man killed was believed to be an innocent bystander who was struck as he was standing outside a bar. A 19-year-old suspect, De'ondre "Dre" White, was formally charged and arrested in [[Killeen, Texas|Killeen]] nearly two weeks after the shooting.<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Alta |last1=Spells |first2=Deanna |last2=Hackney |date=June 12, 2021 |title=One arrest made in Austin, Texas, mass shooting that injured 14 people |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/12/us/austin-texas-shooting-downtown/index.html |website=[[CNN]] |access-date=June 12, 2021 |archive-date=June 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612113502/https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/12/us/austin-texas-shooting-downtown/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Marini |first=Miriam |title=Man killed in Austin shooting was living in Michigan, set to marry high school sweetheart |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/06/14/austin-shooting-victim-douglas-kantor-michigan/7688582002/ |website=Detroit Free Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-shooting-new-suspect-19-arrested-after-manhunt-police-say|title=Austin shooting: New suspect, 19, arrested after manhunt, police say|publisher=[[Fox News]]|date=June 25, 2021|access-date=April 2, 2022|archive-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503154736/https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-shooting-new-suspect-19-arrested-after-manhunt-police-say|url-status=live|last1=Aaro|first1=David}}</ref>

In 2024, Zacharia Doar, a 23-year old Palestinian-American man, was attacked and stabbed in the chest on West 26th Street, [[West Campus, Austin, Texas|West Campus]], after returning from a rally in support of Palestinian human rights. The assailant, 36-year old Bert James Baker was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Austin |first=C. B. S. |date=2024-02-07 |title=West Campus stabbing officially classified as hate crime by Austin police |url=https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/west-campus-stabbing-officially-classified-as-hate-crime-by-austin-police |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=KEYE |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-07 |title=Austin police say West Campus attack meets hate crime definition |url=https://www.kvue.com/video/news/crime/austin-police-say-west-campus-attack-meets-hate-crime-definition/269-90c249f8-c4ee-4891-9215-22d3c887d31a |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=kvue.com |language=en-US}}</ref>