Austin residents want more police officers and think increased law enforcement would help community and police engagement and tamp down issues such as the city’s K2 problem downtown, according to a survey by the Greater Austin Crime Commission that will be released Tuesday.

About three-quarters of 1,909 telephone survey participants picked from the rolls of registered voters said they think increasing the number of patrol officers would help improve the Austin Police Department’s response times to emergency calls, and 84 percent said they think officers should be hired immediately or over the next three to four years. The responses were consistent across all 10 City Council districts, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points.

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