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Defunding Seattle Police by 50% proving complicated for council
Crosscut ^ | 7/31/20 | David Kroman

Posted on 08/01/2020 3:15:59 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Kozy

They’ll do it for awhile and then someone will get a Great Idea , Lets start a Police Force ,LOL


21 posted on 08/01/2020 4:01:56 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: blueplum

If you ignore black on black crime then racial disparities fade away. Problem solved. Police should simply no longer respond to black on black crimes or black on white crimes, either.


22 posted on 08/01/2020 4:02:13 PM PDT by arthurus (kb ovco)
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To: Libloather; All

These jerks state they are cutting the budget, but don’t know how. Typical liberal.


23 posted on 08/01/2020 4:15:48 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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This should be fun. If i own a business in Seattle and my store is being robbed or damaged by protesters in the future i can now open up and fire at will, kill as many as i want and not expect the police to show up. Sounds good to me.


24 posted on 08/01/2020 4:36:15 PM PDT by Plumberman27
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This should be fun. If i own a business in Seattle and my store is being robbed or damaged by protesters in the future i can now open up and fire at will, kill as many as i want and not expect the police to show up. Sounds good to me.


25 posted on 08/01/2020 4:36:15 PM PDT by Plumberman27
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To: Libloather

“They also urged Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best to prioritize responding to violent crimes and to deprioritize calls that could disproportionally impact communities of color.”

Ok...what percent of “color” does a person have to have to be considered part of a “community of color?”


26 posted on 08/01/2020 4:44:22 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Libloather

Socialist’s find hardened criminals are not kumbaya material?


27 posted on 08/01/2020 4:57:19 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: Libloather

Sign this petition. It’d be nice if folks outside of Seattle would sign, you don’t have to live in Seattle so it’d be nice to hear from folks in other cities:https://stopdefunding.com/


28 posted on 08/01/2020 5:01:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Libloather
They also urged Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best to prioritize responding to violent crimes and to deprioritize calls that could disproportionally impact communities of color.

Huh? The police are supposed to fight crime, full stop, not measure what ethnic group investigation of a reported crime will affect. Seems like discriminatory and unequal protection to me.

29 posted on 08/01/2020 5:03:47 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Kozy

Not to mention a traffic stop that turns ugly when the driver turns out to be a wanted felon on drugs. “Excuse me sir, did you notice that red light you went through at 70 mph?” Bam!


30 posted on 08/01/2020 5:17:35 PM PDT by dblshot (R)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

A friend had a car transporter business. One night one of his drivers called and said that a couple of guys offered him $200,000 in cash if he would walk away from his truck for 30 minutes. It was loaded with Mercedes cars.

My friend told his driver to get in the cab and drive. Friend said that the cars were probably slated to go to China.


31 posted on 08/01/2020 5:22:39 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: Libloather

Sawant is no savant.


32 posted on 08/01/2020 5:26:35 PM PDT by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Hypo2

Social services workers will get guns, badges, bullet proof vests and arrest powers. They might even get the chance to run speed traps to help their budget.


33 posted on 08/01/2020 5:39:19 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: Plumberman27

If they sell $5 varmit permits with no bag limit there may be those that will provide store protection for free.


34 posted on 08/01/2020 5:54:26 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“... This Sawant woman is an idiot, and she should go back to India and fix India...”

I doubt that India wants her. My friend says the only good commie is a dead one.


35 posted on 08/01/2020 6:10:39 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Sawant is a communist who came here to fix us.

Everyone on this board must understand that the leftist/communist tactics begin in Washington State (and have since the 70s); that those tactics are later disseminated throughout the county.


36 posted on 08/02/2020 4:55:53 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Libloather

Defunding the cops is misogynistic. Trump should Tweet that.


37 posted on 08/06/2020 11:33:46 AM PDT by Brilliant
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