Did Seattle discover the need for a police force? Will the city use the additional revenue to provide useful services like arresting thieves, eliminating graffiti, suppressing insurrections, dismantling autonomous zones, and educating schoolchildren in the greatness of American history, centuries of British literature, and classical music in addition to depoliticized mathematics and natural sciences?
I have heard no indication of any of the foregoing, and I understand that notwithstanding the severe criminality and insurrections, the city already imposes high taxes sufficient to fund an ample professional police force with plentiful revenue to spare.
They may have the money to fund the PO but they won’t. They’ll use whatever tax money they get for social services like the homeless, etc.