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Confirmed: Seattle Police Are Nearly as Stupid as the City Government
The Seattle City Council just approved a 20% cut to the department’s budget for 2021. And now, “Seattle Police search for common ground with Defund movement leaders“:
The move to strip down the Seattle Police Department was driven in large part by the community coalition known as King County Equity Now. On Thursday night, KCEN representatives joined an online conversation with a number of police officers who wanted to put a face on who it is that’s actually being defunded.
The forum was moderated by the African American Community Advisory Council.
“By being against each other we’re just hurting what we’re fighting for,” said Victoria Beach, chair of the advisory council.
They might just possibly deserve what they get, if this is their response. Too bad that the citizens of Seattle don’t deserve what they are getting. Or not getting, as the case may be.
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You pretty much always get what you deserve. Sometimes good and hard.
The smart ones retired, or resigned.
You got it.
Lord help us.
And then, there’s this:
Seattle Police face critical shortage, as 33 more leave in mass resignation.
KOMO in Seattle is increasingly a lonely journalistic bright spot in the Northwest, every other news sources seems to have joined Antifa.
Frankly, and with due deference to current and former police on this site, I haven’t ever personally met a police officer who was especially bright.
One guy in particular, after directing me to make what would otherwise have been an illegal turn except it’s not if the police say to do it – like when they direct traffic to cross the white line to get around an accident scene, for example – told me as if he was doing me a favor, that he wouldn’t give me a ticket for doing what he “ordered” me to do, because he was feeling “gratuitous.”
I would have suggested he look up the word when he got home, but you never know what might get you shot.
Yeah, when I was a kid I thought the “song” “[eff] the police” was sacrilege. Now, I’m behind it 100%.
Either You uphold the law or You don’t. It’s that simple. And if You don’t, that speaks volumes.
That video is disturbing.
And my “gratuitous” situation was back when body cameras weren’t even a gleam in some inventor’s eye.
Let’s see how many cats stay up in trees… oops, Fire Department. Let’s see if less or no police is actually a bad thing. In those areas (Los Angeles?) where crime is either decriminalized or ignored, will there be lots of reports of either out of control anarchy or citizens leaving in droves? The only folks I saw complaining about protests in Portland were out-of-towners or some of the pundits.
Is it really that bad?
Watch this, then see if your questions get any answers.
https://ricochet.com/843697/perhaps-the-most-important-documentary-this-year-for-pacific-northwesterners/
The question would become; How many police officer’s have you actually met versus the number of police officers in the United States?
Once a police officer directs traffic, and by the way police officers have the lawful authority to direct traffic as they see fit, and in your example the police officer was just trying to get you out of the area before you could expound on your expertise on how to direct traffic.
No, you misread my comment, or something.