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Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries
fox news ^ | 8/10/2020 | Barnini Chakraborty

Posted on 08/10/2020 6:17:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos

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To: Mount Athos

0.7% budget cut and 7% cut in number of officers

they basically chickened out ...


21 posted on 08/10/2020 6:52:01 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Enough to own blame when crime skyrockets


22 posted on 08/10/2020 6:55:14 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: 2banana

What taxpayers ? LOL


23 posted on 08/10/2020 7:01:11 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mount Athos

This means that the court system will not receive any new
cases. Officers will not be enforcing the laws. Anarchy
will follow.

Seattle is melting down.

Maybe when it’s crap starts flooding into the ocean, the
environmentalist will step in and cry fowl.


24 posted on 08/10/2020 7:07:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Mount Athos

I’m guessing some of the city’s business owners are suffering some serious 20-20 hindsight right now.

Maybe they can take the insurance money for their burned out businesses and move to a red state, start up again and vote in lefty loons to start the process of devolution all over again.

I seriously doubt that many, if any, of these people who are taking up the rear financially there are getting religion and going conservative. Progressives have absolutely no idea of the concept of cause and effect or the immutable law of unintended consequences.


25 posted on 08/10/2020 7:24:07 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Someone’s looking to buy on the cheap.


26 posted on 08/10/2020 7:45:20 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Grampa Dave; All
According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, thanks to "defund the police" and the Democrat cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest cities.

The Wall Street Journal found that homicides have spiked in 36 of the nation’s 50 largest cities, all democRAT-run, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Rarely do is the cause and effect so apparent to see.

Mayors and city councils everywhere are lurching to the far-left fringe, dismissing the majority’s concerns over crime, defunding and demoralizing police, and empowering violent criminals. That’s the cause. The effect is the rising murder rates in Democrat-run cities all over the country.

But in a year where almost every major American city is experiencing a surge in violent crime, surprisingly one city in Texas is leading the race to the bottom.

Austin, Texas' homicides are up 64 percent over 2019 — well more than second place in this ignominious contest, Chicago, which saw a 52 percent rise. It is even ahead of Los Angeles and New York City.

Americans are dying in record numbers because democRATS are embracing the far Left, radical Marxist group, Black Lives Matter, whose goal is the destruction of America by any means necessary.

27 posted on 08/10/2020 7:48:13 PM PDT by HotHunt
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Cut first. Figure out new solution later. Sounds like a pla.


28 posted on 08/10/2020 8:30:55 PM PDT by joshua c
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It looks as if some of the councilmen and women are middle-aged and older; how in the dickens could anyone that stupid live so long?


29 posted on 08/10/2020 8:43:14 PM PDT by Bogle
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Great news! With all that extra money they won’t need the federal government to bail them out.


30 posted on 08/10/2020 8:44:30 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: Mount Athos

Wimps! If you want to defund something, go all the way, not a paltry sum. This is a political stunt.These clowns know the ramifications of complete defunding and would never have the testicles to do it.


31 posted on 08/10/2020 9:43:33 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Carmen Best... is the city's first Black police chief and the pay cut would put her salary well below her White predecessor.

32 posted on 08/10/2020 10:02:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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These people are worried Seattle’s NOT becoming a hellhole fast enough?


33 posted on 08/10/2020 10:14:35 PM PDT by GOPJ ( If YOU live in an American hellhole, YOU elected a democrat mayor.)
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What happens when you fire 100, and then 300 quit?... then 600 quit... then your department implodes.

Bad guys win...

Batman will surely quit then.


34 posted on 08/10/2020 10:34:02 PM PDT by Safrguns
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