Posted on 07/01/2018 6:24:11 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Seattle cops flee the force in 'mass exodus' due to frustrations with city's politics, report says
By Kathleen Joyce | Fox News
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.
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT SEEKS SANCTUARY AT SEATTLE CHURCH: REPORT
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.
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Well, it is Seattle!
Escape from Seattle.
They are now tasked with confronting and fining any citizen in possession of a plastic drinking straw.
Why would you put your life on the line for people who hate you?
Seattle libs should be pleased.
This crap of attacking police officers either stops or chaos will reign in the streets. Perhaps a little dose of chaos on Sawant's doorstep is exactly what Seattle needs.
We really ARE inching closer and closer to becoming a completely divided nation. I hope President Trump can reverse that trend - but living without Liberals and their STUPID policies WOULD be kind of nice, LOL!
I’m glad I got to see a lot of America with my own two eyes back when certain parts of it weren’t completely INSANE! :(
King county and Seattle are fast becoming a socialist’s wet dream ...
The wackos in Seattle probably WANT the police to leave.
Seattle libs should be pleased.
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Exactly. This is the result they wanted. They don’t see the need for police in their utopian state.
41 is nothing. There should be 100’s leaving that latrine.
The good news is that the training they received will serve them well in other areas of employment. I’d look for the same job in jurisdictions that are more supportive.
How about a national holiday just for cops?
“Escape from Seattle.”
Texas is full. Go to Colorado.
Seattle’s liberal ‘elites’ will do just fine - they’ll hire ‘guns’ to protect themselves. Just the ‘little people’ will suffer.
“Without the Rule of Law you eventually wind up with The Law of The Jungle”
The left don’t understand that the Rule of Law is not there to protect the law-abiding from criminals, it’s there to protect criminals from the law-abiding.
If the law-abiding stop believing in the Rule of Law, it’s open season on criminals. -Emg
I say the Left wants vigilantism. They can then make up the Laws as they go along. (A tendency they exhibit well now)
I can’t blame the police. It would be very difficult to be a policeman in liberal Seattle.
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