they are firing a huge number of black officers, since the firings are based on seniority and most of hires for the past several years were diverse...
Firing by race (the protestors wanted all white officers fired) is illegal so it has to be by senority. The SPD would be firing more white, hispanic and asian officers than black.
A 50% reduction in forces would result in less diversity by:
65% hispanic
53% white
47% asian
43% black and islander
26% indian
The anarchists want lower wages and wage caps for the remaining force. They are wage-jealous of $100K/hr for a 8yr officer.
Seattle has spent over $1Billion every year for 5 years on homeless and indigent programs. That’s $100K for every man woman and child in the entire county. Rather than attack the police dept funding, maybe somebody should be asking the city council and ‘the community’ where that $5Billion went ?