Griffith explained their decision, saying,
The last thing you want to do is increase the tax rate, I mean it's the very last thing you want to do. The reason we did this, and we've talked about this for almost 2 years, is our plan for the police substations and community policing. We're already doing community policing, as you all know, and we need to be brutally honest about how great our city is, but we have big city crime issues, especially with property crime.
At Tuesday's meeting of the Lubbock City Council, Assistant Chief of Police Jerry Brewer was appointed as Interim Police Chief for the Lubbock Police Department.