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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My wife and I “Exodused” (yeah, I verbed a noun) seven years ago to rural KY. One of my daughter’s exodused to Phoenix last year. My oldest daughter and her husband are Exodusing tomorrow to come to Louisville from Ballard.
And yeah, it’s the politics and what it’s done to what was once an awesome place to live.
Can they take their pensions with them?
This is how communism takes control.
Antifa and BLM are worse than the local gangs.
With the way cops are maligned in America now and with more laws being passed limited their arrest powers, I can definitly see a cop shortage in this nation in the near future. Who’d want the job
It’s a big problem that is going to start to rear its’ ugly head very soon, what to do when nobody wants to be a cop in a big city anymore.
Heh.
Let the ‘tards defend themselves.
Sans guns, of course.
Please televise it.
With sound, surround sound, with mega subwoofers.
Just FYI from a Texan ... McAllen sits on the Texas-Mex border about as far south as one can get in Texas ... hardly North Texas.
But it is true that many cities in Texas are increasing their police populations.
you exfiltrated..
OBAMA: Well, my pastor [Jeremiah Wright] is certainly someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for.
I have a number of friends who are ministers. Reverend Meeks is a close friend and colleague of mine in the state Senate. Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely.
> I do not understand why he doesn’t get recalled or something. <
Recalled? Pope Francis is probably considering promoting him to Cardinal of the People, or something like that. Birds of a feather flock together. (No pun intended.)
Something will fill the void if cops aren’t available in the big cities.
Say “hello” to No-Go Shariah Law Zones.
I meet a lot of ex-Seattleites who have fled to North Idaho for the same reasons. Filth, insane bums, crime, drugs, traffic, sky-high prices and, most of all, horrible socialist city politics ruining everything that wasn’t already ruined. Al the refugees lament the loss of a once-great city, just like SF.
That’s it!
I know, that’s why the wink ;)
Don't laugh. It's a pretty safe bet that's already been proposed.
Why have cops at all when you have “issues” with the whole idea of law and order?
“That pos “Father” Phleger (Chicago) is mounting a protest (blocking the Dan Ryan expressway) against “police inactivity” in the ghettos...”
Police inactivity?? This is too sweet for words.
Read the Second City Cop blog (Chicago police blog) for details.
And to think I left Kentucky for Seattle thirty years ago.
But I was a libtard back then.
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