I think they already did.
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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...a once-great city, just like SF
I read that while living in Seattle and said, “uh-oh”.
Sure enough, the prediction was exactly as you put it in your post. It’s one of the reasons I left, actually. I didn’t want to be a part to that.
I’m writing from North Idaho. The quality of life in the SF Bay Area has gotten so bad that we had to do something.
I bet he did.
North Texas, you know, McAllen, that area ;)
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You are either kidding or ignorant of geography.
ICBW, but if they've worked long enough to be vested, yes. However, they can't collect until they reach a certain age, 65 for instance.
Do you get convicted of “murder” when you screw up royally at your job?
Would you take a job like that for $40,000 a year?
I really like Idaho. I also spent a fair amount of my life in Eastern Washington.
[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]
“The bluest sky you’ve ever seen, in Seattle....”
But that was 1968 and David Soul had not yet done “Magnum Force”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNpa_vTjRM
But, Cmdr. Spok’s father was there....
:)
Turn Seattle into San Francisco
Thank you.
Kshama Sawant
There’s your first clue.
I have always thought Reid joined the Mormon church to throw people off of his trail. He joined in college (weird) when there was a lot of news about Howard Hughes only trusting Mormons.
” I verbed a noun”
A few years back I heard an interview with Judge Bork, who chuckled about his name also becoming a verb.
However, you rarely hear about a judge being “Borked” any more - it seems to have fallen out of use.
I know a King County prosecutor who’s pretty fed up too.
“Every city and state in the country where Marxist Liberals are in power is becoming a third-world feces-hole.”
Yeah but skanky chicks can walk around with their legs behind their heads having sex with every sweaty disease infected phallus they encounter and force me to pay for every single utterly predictable and preventable malady that occurs as a result of their utter irresponsibility and piss poor decision making. So yay Seattle
In Utopia, there is no crime nor criminals and all is peace and light.
Back in the mid 70s the Bell System was allowing (formerly unheard of) transfers from NYC to Seattle with a 90 day “right of return.” A few black fellows from my department gave it a try. They all returned saying that they couldn’t take the racial discrimination out there.
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