Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best disagrees with her City Council’s proposal of cutting the police department’s budget by 50%.
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— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 12, 2020
When the Chief of Police says no?
Wow.
From Breitbart:
On Friday’s broadcast of KTTH’s “Jason Rantz Show,” Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best stated that the proposed 50% defunding of the city’s police department would “decimate public safety for the city of Seattle” and would result in the loss of 1,100 employees or 50% of the police workforce, and would result in “hundreds” of fewer officers who can respond to calls for service in the city.
Best said, “I think you — the word ‘plan’ is rather loose here. They haven’t got a plan. All they’ve shown us is that they want to reduce the budget by 50%. I haven’t seen any real planning in that. And the real tragedy of doing that is that we will lose 1,100 employees. That’s 50% of our total workforce. Because most of our budget is made up of our personnel costs, and it would be a tragedy. I think that it’s the height of recklessness for them to decimate public safety for the city of Seattle without being thoughtful and encouraging public engagement on this issue.”
Recklessness.
Sounds about right.
More people should listen to her!!!
— Allison (@lyndraz5) July 12, 2020
#DefundThePolice is most hurtful to the #middleclass and those who live or work in #poor #neighborhoods.
— John E Wade II (@JohnEWadeII) July 12, 2020
Yup.
That seems to be what BLM and Antifa are going for.
— Elrr (@Elrr18235880) July 12, 2020
I bet analysis would reveal 50% or more in resources are spent on the poorest of neighborhoods. They would be decimated
— Ray Baumann Sr (@RBaumannSR) July 12, 2020
But at least the City Council could pretend to care and stuff, right?
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