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What does 50% defunding of police look like?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 79185455:MV80NDczMTUwXzgxNDY3NTkxXzhBN0FFNTYx] instead of spewing no information how about sharing some relevant information. In Seattle, currently the budget of the police department is 409 millions dollars. This is 27% of the City's entire discretionary budget. It is nearly double the Fire Department! This clearly is lopsided and how it came to be like this should be addressed at some point but right now it is critical to rebalance the budget. I am a taxpayer here. No one even calls the Seattle Police for anything anymore anyway because mostly they dont show up. Personally I have always found the firemen to be people who want to help and the police have a real sick contempt for everyone and do not want to help anyone! It is not a bad apple unless you count the whole department as a bad apple. A cop is dangerous and not going to be good to bring into any situation. So we need to create departments that actually serve us. We need a 911 call center that is not operated by the police. Seattle has a new responding unit called HELP which is specifically for 911 calls regarding mental disturbance issues so the person does not end up going to jail and then back on the street without getting proper attention to get them the help they need. This concept will expand in the coming months so police will be needed a smaller and smaller percentage of the time. Yes, there will be less policemen and more people who are trained to help specific issues. SO with 5 months left of 2020, half of 170 million is 85 million to pull from the remainder of the police budget this year. This money should be put into affordable housing, services in black and brown working class communities , renter organizing and eviction defense, youth programmings and alternatives to repressive policing. Housing is probably the biggest issue here and I think half the money will go to that problem. This leaves 85 million for the remainder of the year for the police department. Guess they have to cut overtime which is how a patrol officer makes over 200,000 a year, they may have to live like other city workers. I think maybe they should be more sparing with the use of pepper spray and rubber bullets. Those are expensive. We dont want to pay for them. [/quote]
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Seattle's Marxist city council fool released some details about the plan to reduce the police budget by 50%. It cuts 681 of the 755 officers. Seven of nine council members have voiced support for cutting SPD’s budget in half, a veto-proof majority.
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