Posted on 06/29/2018 10:43:26 AM PDT by wmileo
At least 41 cops have left the Seattle Police Department this year, many of them reportedly citing frustration with the city's politics and a perceived lack of support from local officials.
Though documents showed some officers left the force due to retirement, a source in the department told Q13 FOX some 20 officers left and sought employment at other law enforcement agencies.
The source also said younger officers "don’t feel appreciated" and the number of those leaving who felt “frustrated over city politics is higher than usual.”
“Worker bees on the street, they don't feel appreciated. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” the source told Q13 FOX.
The Seattle Police Guild, the police labor union, which includes “all of the officers and sergeants on the Seattle Police Department,” according to its website, called the departures a “mass exodus” that would affect safety.
“Less officers on the streets, less safe for the citizens -- and when you have all these officers you have invested all this money in and they are leaving for Tacoma, Olympia, Pierce County and Snohomish County,” Seattle Police Officers Guild Vice President Richard O’Neill said.
He added: “I have never seen the number of officers who are leaving and the way they are leaving.”
As of 2017, there were 1,444 sworn officers on the force, according to the city.
“It's just depressing to serve in a place where many city council members who are coming out at times with negative comments about the police,” O’Neill said.
The union cited Mike O’Brien and Kshama Sawant, two Seattle City Council members, as being especially critical.
"A city council member [Sawant] can call two police officers 'murderers' and the city pays for her legal fees," a source told MyNorthwest.com, referring to a fatal 2016 police-involved shooting.
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This is how communism takes control.
That pos “Father” Phleger (Chicago) is mounting a protest (blocking the Dan Ryan expressway) against “police inactivity” in the ghettos which just drove the police out. I do not understand why he doesn’t get recalled or something.
Couldn't have happened to a nice town.
North Texas is hiring officers by the truckloads, come on up.
“North Texas is hiring officers by the truckloads, come on up. “
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Where,exactly? I have no idea what you mean by North Texas.
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North Texas, you know, McAllen, that area ;)
Let Antifa and BLM walk the streets. It suits the leftwing politics. When their @sses are capped by the local gangs it’s evolution in action.
Of course Seattle city council will blame Trump’s policies.
Pretty soon they’ll have nothing but corrupt or do nothing cops and then it will become like mehico.
And fewer dollars flowing into their political coffers to promote Democrats.
“I do not understand why he doesn’t get recalled or something.”
For the same reason that the Mormons didn’t do anything about that Marxist, Harry Reid.
They should take the insane, Mad Maxi’s advice and hire illegal aliens on their “police” force. LOL.
Antifa and BLM are worse than the local gangs.
And, the people of Washington are fleeing as well just like people are fleeing the third-world sewer, like San Francisco, that is California today thanks to Jerry Brown and his Marxist band of corrupt debris. Every city and state in the country where Marxist Liberals are in power is becoming a third-world feces-hole. Anything a Liberal touches turns to waste.
Always spell it with capital letters please 'POS'
Thanks.
What do they expect when they won’t let them do their jobs?
They hate cops, call for cops to be killed then complain there are no cops. It’s a pattern that happens everywhere there are democrats.
I would not be surprised if this exodus is occurring in many other cities controlled by the left.
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