Posted on 05/19/2021 1:07:13 PM PDT by dynachrome
Following the death of George Floyd, protests and riots erupted in Seattle. Amid radicals looting and attacking police, Seattle’s homicide rate spiked to a 26-year high. Nonetheless, the Seattle council attempted to slash the police department’s budget once more, but to no avail. During the particular uptick in crime, the number of deployable officers in the left-wing stronghold was about 1,200. This is the lowest since 1990.
Jason Rantz, a Seattle-based talk show host on KTTH Radio and a frequent guest on Fox News, told The Federalist that “the numbers you’re getting only tell a small part of the picture.”
“You have dozens of officers who are burning their sick and vacation time and will exit the force afterward,” Rantz said. “You have officers who are applying elsewhere and booked to turn in their equipment and uniform, which means they will be gone but haven’t yet been reported as part of the separations yet.”
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I’m surprised it’s just 20%.
I read the title twice as ‘Black Lives Matter Rots’.
I don’t know why.
Speak to Freud I guess.
More will be leaving - 100 by end of May. Let the CC have their social workers try to end violence by talking to them.
A move designed to lower the crime rate - as in why report a crime as no one will show up.
I left that state long before it became an absolute crap hole; while western WA is beautiful, its also unlivable.
My guess is the people in Seattle are extremely happy now. After all, they say: the fewer police, the fewer crimes. I’ll be very interested to see how that thought plays out in the real world.
I keep thinking of “The Alamo” where Sam Houston offers Davy Crockett “640 acres of your own choosing’. That’s to move to texas.
I’m surprised they haven’t all quit.
Many aren't financially flexible enough to just up nd quit. I'll bet this will really hurt recruiting though.
the Seattle PD is a bunch of uselessness.
and they should all quit.
GET A REAL POLICE CHEIF AND SHERRIFF
It’s the new math. Presence of police officers equals more crime. Delete police officers, delete crime.
What could possibly go wrong?
Actually, it is not the actions of the policemen out on the beat, it is the prosecuting attorneys and the elected or appointed magistrates who will not prosecute the criminals when they are caught, or do not pass adequate sentencing in those few instances where prosecution is enabled. The prospective criminal has a very good chance of simply walking away, released before the arresting officer has even completed the paperwork, and the “prosecutorial discretion” is made not to even honor the charges before a grand jury, let alone ever getting into a courtroom.
Repeated rearrests have no cumulative effect whatsoever.
That’s a good point.
When I initially joined the infantry I only meant to do 3 years. 10 years later I finally made it out. I suffered getting out, I took a big pay cut becoming an apprentice. I can see that.
It cost me, but thankfully the infantry taught me a few things.
There's already a shortage of LEO's across the country due to all the retirements/early retirements/resignations and just flat out leaving law enforcement.
Who in their right mind would want to be a cop these days? I'm just glad my oldest son quit weeks ago now and is looking for something else to do. I don't have to worry about him as much anymore.
Shockingly low percentage...
That’s an officers-per-thousand ratio of under 1.5. That is insanely low for a major city.
I agree it’s shockingly low. Cops in progressive states need to run for their lives.
Amazing, only 20%.
Seattle residents should feel honored to be the guinea pigs in this LEFTIST social experiment.
Exactly what antifag and burn loot murder want
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