Posted on 08/10/2020 6:17:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos
The Seattle City Council voted Monday to move forward with a controversial proposal that would begin the process of defunding the police department.
The 7-1 vote comes despite objections from the city's police chief, mayor and the Seattle Police Officers' Guild.
The plan would ultimately slash funding to the department but not the 50% some had sought. Seattle currently has around 1,400 police officers, and the current plan would see about 100 cut. It was also cut the police department's $400 million budget by about $3 million, according to KOMO.
Councilmember Kshama Sawant was the sole "no" vote because she felt the proposals didn't go far enough, while Debora Juarez abstained, according to MyNorthWest.com.
The council reviewed a final set of amendments Monday before the vote, which included reducing the police department by up to 100 officers through layoffs and attrition as well as cutting the $285,000 annual salary of the Police Chief Carmen Best and other top officers. Best is the city's first Black police chief and the pay cut would put her salary well below her White predecessor.
The council's plan also removes officers from a team that dismantles homeless camps.
The move to defund the city's Navigation Team, and redirect the money to homeless outreach services such as REACH will “dramatically restrict the city’s ability to address unauthorized encampments,” Jason Johnson, Interim Director of Seattle’s Human Services Department, wrote in a letter to the council last week.
Some council members have said the initial cuts are a first step to more sweeping reductions and a rethinking of law enforcement in Seattle.
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sell, sell, sell
City Council will have a robust and heavily armed private security...paid for by taxpayers.
I think Agenda 21 is killing itself.
Thank you, Liberalism.
The end is near. Seattle property values are going to plummet, if they haven’t already.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Rental trucks will be scarce.
So after all the fanfare they cut less than one percent? What a bunch of clowns, classic bureaucrat stupidity.
There’s no way this could get twisted.
The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
“City Council will have a robust and heavily armed private security...”
Chapter 2.
Run away!
https://mynorthwest.com/2081768/rantz-seattle-council-fire-people-of-color/
The woke Seattle City Council is poised to fire officers of color and cut the black police chief’s salary to ensure she gets paid less than her white predecessor. How’s that for social justice?
Monday’s vote is likely to pass, despite the council’s best efforts to claim they’ll fight for people of color. If those people of color are cops, however, the council deems them unworthy of protection.
...The council makes this move knowing that newly hired, less experienced officers will be let go first. In the last year or so, the department has been focused on hiring more people of color to better represent different communities. Consequently, the council will force the department to fire minority officers.
Realizing this is a bad look, white Councilmember Lisa Herbold suggests the Seattle Police Department seek permission to exclusively fire white officers. This is, of course, illegal discrimination and flatly racist. It also makes little sense to fire officers who have more experience......
These people are absolutely insane.
It will cost $500 to rent a truck to move to Seattle and $2000 to rent one to leave.
Light that fuse!
The DNC, party of the KKK, Jim Crow and Joe Biden has figured out new ways to legally kill the descendents of their former slaves, blacks in Blue Cities, like Seattle, New York City, Chicago!:
Leo Terrell: ‘Joe Biden Has the Mindset of a Plantation Owner
townhall ^ | 08/07/2020 | Leah Barkoukis
1. Fund Planned Parenthood to slaughter unborn black babies whose Black Baby Lives Mean Nothing.
2. Defund the police in blue cities like Seattle Chicago, NY City, ______________.
3. Elect Joe Bidementia as our president!
Thanks to “defund the police” and the Democrat Blue cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest blue cities. The raw numbers are terrible for Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, and other very blue and large American cities.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeglTX_XgAA2w6f?format=jpg&name=large
e2.
Weekly BLM Kills in Chicagostan: https://heyjackass.com/
Hold massive BLM protests in Blue Cities with high Covid 19 infection rates. Like the one planned in DC for teachers, coordinated by the DNC’s long time BLM overseer, Al Sharpton.
Then, let the killer virus Covid 19 take out more blacks participating in the protests involving 100,000 BLMers, packed together, yelling and screaming while protesting. That will spread the CV 19 into their BLM mobs to take it home with them.
Marxist Democrat urban areas will become surreal 21st century ghost towns. Residential, commercial real estate and populations are declining daily. Soon, they will be haunted mostly by the strange and deranged. Street cops don’t even want to accompany the coroners to pick up the black bodies much less perform active policing or peacekeeping.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3870374/posts?page=5#5 by allendale
It’s strange times in New York City. COVID — and confused government policies — has commercial buildings desolate in Manhattan. Few are returning to work in their offices despite politicians proclaiming otherwise. Restaurants can open for food but not for drinks. Gatherings are forbidden — unless it is to protest. Crime is through the roof, months after elected officials allowed looting and forced police to turn a blind eye.
Nazi’s didn’t want to kill everyone either, just the ones they didn’t want.
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