Seattle City Council on Monday approved a $3.5 million cut to the city’s police department for the rest of the year and signalled deeper cuts could be on the way, while some $17 million is being invested into community public safety following months of anti-racism demonstrations and calls to defund the police.
The $3.5 million is just a fraction of the 50% cut to the police department’s $409 million budget that protesters demanded. But the new budget will see some 100 fewer police officers, while executive pay—including the chief’s $285,000 salary—will be reduced and the budget for SWAT teams, officers in school, harbor patrol, homeless outreach team and training and recruitment will also fall. in recent weeks, renewed by protests in nearby Portland.
The cuts were described by council President Lorena Gonzalez as a “down payment” for future potential reductions to the police department’s budget.Seattle Times
For me most blacks are criminals and when they are been caught by the cop, they play race card, this are the issues. The crime rate in black communities in USA is alarming.
USA is for Americans not for illegal aliens and criminals. If you say police should not be armed with guns, I ask who then armed the criminals? Why is blacks in USA killing themselves with guns?
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wow that huge
He gets out before they cut the pension.... what a dick.
'community public safety' means nothing considering the limitations placed on officers as is due to...ya know....the constitution. It's gonna be funny watching those people deal with a 51/50 that they can't legally force into treatment.