Pretty snazzy uniform. Looks like a 4 star general or something real important.
Posted on 09/04/2020 6:00:39 PM PDT by Libloather
Seattle's top cop has said she quit her job last month after cuts to the budget left her 'destined to fail.'
Carmen Best was the Seattle Police Department's first Black female police chief and officers lined the streets to bid her farewell Wednesday during her last day on the job.
In an interview published the same day, Best - who previously said her decision to leave 'certainly isn't about the demonstrators' following the death of George Floyd – blasted the city council's decision to drop 100 officers out of 1,400.
'I believe 100% that they were putting me in a position destined to fail,' Best told NPR All Things Considered regarding a revamp in response to calls to defund the department.
'Cutting a police department that already had low staffing numbers, that was already struggling to keep up with the demand… How are we going to provide for adequate public safety in that environment?'
Despite a proposal to slash the $400million budget in half, only $4million was redirected.
Her own $285,000 salary was reduced as part of that. She previously said her resignation was 'not about the money.'
The council plan also takes officers off a team that removes homeless camps.
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bingo!
Well we know she’ll do her Best.
sorry...
Amazon is apparently expanding into Bellevue, eschewing Seattle.
Carmen Best really is the best. She’ll get a job in a saner city very soon. Chicago needs her but she’s too smart to tackle that mess.
They mayor and Seattle City Council would not let Carment Best do her job. She tried repeatedly over several months to let police officers stop the burnlootmurder crowd and she was not given any power.
She can say it wasn’t because of the riots but previously she tried very hard to stop the domestic terrorists and was constantly thwarted.
Best was a lefty that got eaten by her own.
If your supervisor won’t back you up, you’re toast.
Apparently she’s made a right turn after disillusionment with leftie idiots. 90-degree? Maybe not, but she’s at least veered in the right direction
Pretty snazzy uniform. Looks like a 4 star general or something real important.
She’s vested and can draw her retirement. Good move
It doesn’t fit right and her name tag is crooked. She actually looks ridiculous, IMO.
No chief of police in a major city should ever look like that in a photograph. Look at her face. It’s a perfect illustration of the failure of leftism throughout history.
I don’t know anything about Carmen Best, but resigning was the honest and honorable thing to do. Most bureaucrats simply try to hang on, skim from the system, and undermine their bosses.
She’s just raised her status in the public’s eyes.
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Oakland has a top cop vacancy, too.
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