- Cut 32 officers from patrol – $533,000
- Reduced specialized units including officers assigned to the mounted unit, school resource officers, homeland security, harbor patrol, SWAT team – $250,000
- Removed officers from Navigation Team, ensuring homeless neighbors are not retraumatized by armed patrol officers – $216,000
- Reduced staff budget through recognizing expected attrition – $500,000
- Reduced administrative costs, including salaries, community outreach, public affairs
- Cut $56,000 from training and travel expenses
- Cut recruitment and retention – $800,000
- Transferred victim advocates from SPD to the Human Services Department – $377,000 impact
- Removed two sworn officer positions from the 911 Emergency Call Center
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They will reap what they sow....our duty is to make sure that the Fed's don't eventually bail their populace out with money. They need to suffer for a long time.
Budget cuts. Seattle will face $100M in tax revenue shortfall due to covid19. Every city in the US is facing the same problem.
Sure, budget cuts across the country. I get it.
My gripe is why do they have to cut the police budget? They don’t have to! Rioters and looters are calling for it and of course that’s their base, so Dems go along and chant “Defund the police” with them.
It’s easy for them to just go ahead and defund the police. It has nothing to do with them. But I bet if New Yorkers were calling to “Defund DiBlasio,” he’d change his tune about it real quick.
Yeah I wish the gang infested areas had more police. Why don't we use some of that $770B in defense spending to "defend" the good people in those areas who don't live in a safe place?
The Progressives have accomplished their goal. Make defunding the police palatable to the public. More police are the answer.
The democrat way is to create more chaos.
Defund the military!
Fantastic idea. You’re really on to something there, Kask. JFC
No.
So you have come around on the federal government sending agents to Portland. Better late than never.
Increase the funding for police.
It's a mystery why criminality is on the rise. How could this happen?
Clearly we need to hear from the all-white team at the Nation on how to handle crime-infested areas.
Law and Order are not racist. Law and Order guards against predators. Ask the people in these places? It's 80% for more, 20% against the reduction in police proposition.
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foraging for bread? You can't do this unless you are safe.
So because you’re hungry, hopeless and unemployed you’re next best option is to murder someone?
Yeah not buying that one, AOC.
The good white woke liberals in Seattle have basically forced the resignation of a black female police chief because she is trying to do her job.
She's been clear all along about the city council tying her hands and preventing her from stopping Chaz/Chop type criminals to run all over the city burning and pillaging.
The city council doesn't want her to enforce the law. Cut her salary by 100k. Makes perfect sense.
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No. No it doesn’t.
And no one in their right mind would even believe that besides you.
It’s easier to be a criminal,you don’t have the responsibilities of holding a job. Plus you can wait for these protests to go downtown and shop all you want for free
Just because someone goes to their fridge and realizes there's no food in there, does not mean they automatically go to their bedroom, grab their 9mm and go out to a park and open fire.
Just no.
The criminals are targeting the nicest parts of the cities to steal merchandise, and they are shooting each other in the not so nice parts. They're using the black unarmed kid shot story.
When a city like Detroit, where crime is always up, says its bad. It's bad. I prefer to listen to the minority police chief's story. Not the dumb white woke liberals on TV.
Seattle police chief just resigned after they cut her pay and fired 100 officers from her unit.
But this is what you all want.
But this is what you all want.
This is the same guy that contends MB was killed in cold blood with his hands up after he attacked the police officer twice and shot him dead.
Really Police budgets should be paid for by local residents...not the Feds. I'm OK with a bit of Fed money filtering down but come on why should everyone in America chip in to protect the Crime ridden Big cities? Let those residence pay more and pay a lot more. Or suffer....
It's not you....it's the Leaders you follow and believe. I really think you can't support a lot of what the modern Dem's are doing.Maybe I'm wrong. But your hate for Trump's ignorant brash and boorish behavior clouds your vision.
The rise is because less Police to Protect the innocent in those area's from the Criminals. They have not defunded the Social Services. EBT,AFDC,Medicare/caid etc. are still being doled out.
Even more services today than before and if you can't get by on the 600$ a week given out for not working during C19 well God help your ignorance.
I pity you for thinking all unemployed people turn to crime and violence. I will 100% disagree with you that anyone is hungry in America. To many options to eat. Churches,Shelters,Expedited Food Stamps, and many other options to numerous to list. Nobody in America is hungry unless they are Mentally ill or Totally irresponsible with a Massive Substance addiction and they waste their resources. That lie won't cut it.
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Most street crime and violent crime can be traced to drugs.... That was the first chapter we studied in Criminology. The correlation between Substance abuse and Crime has been studied since the early 1900's.
But in your world a person get's laid off at the local factory and hits the streets to do Some Crime soon after. I know a bit of hyperbole statement but in reality Drugs drive a lot of crime. Crime(burglary,mugging,distributing) to pay for the Substance, Crime to control the substance and profit from it(gang/mob actions) and Crime related to the altered state of individuals who perform violent and lewd actions under the influence.
I'm not saying unemployment doesn't have some correlation but drugs tend to also factor into people being unemployed or unemployable. Of course people with money tend to not commit crime....but when you factor in why they are not employed often substance abuse is the underlying cause and then they tend to commit crimes as a easy way to survive. Hence my hyperbolic statement.
Most of the budget cuts have or will be implemented in the near future, funding cuts have NOTHING to do with what happened in the last couple of months.
I agree with that statement for the most part.....but the idea and implementation of future funding cuts coupled with Democratic silk glove policies have led to police officers leaving the ranks with early retirement and career changes in droves,not to mention the busting of moral that happens when police learn they won't have the necessary resources to do their jobs. This has all led to the upsurge in crime,violence and civil unrest.
So if you can't kill a guy with your knee on his neck it's because of the 'silk glove' approach, got it. That didn't seem to stop cops from holding their guns on some kids on laying on a hot street after a stop for a possible stolen car. Which btw was NOT the right car.
No. Nobody thinks that killing a guy with your knee on his neck is good. Why bring up a ridiculous comparison unless you are blank?
HMMM I never mentioned George Floyd in correlate with silk glove approach....I was talking about the measures taken after ....even the Liberal Seattle police chief is in agreement with that.
