massraider said:
There you have it. The lefty gets threatened, well she was asking for it. Exceptional work.
DIRECT HEADLINE:
Seattle's first black police chief resigns over vote to defund the police
The head of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) has abruptly stepped down after the city council voted 7-1 to cut the police budget ....Carmen Best, the first black woman to head up the department, announced her decision in an email to staff, writing that “when it’s time, it’s time”....Ms Best had taken umbrage at proposals to defund the SPD, which were first raised after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and which have only gathered pace since....
“But what is problematic,” she said, “is that these are approaches without any clarity on how they will become reality. What is the plan? The push from council and some of our community is to do these large-scale changes in 2020 with no practical plan for community safety. And I believe wholeheartedly that is completely reckless....”
....The cuts are targeted at both specific units and executive pay, and also eliminate 100 police officers from the force....At one point, protesters not only clashed with police but also barricaded themselves into a police-free area, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. The project eventually collapsed under the weight of various social problems, including gun violence and homelessness, that residents struggled to address....Yet even the smaller cut has been controversial, with the Downtown Seattle Association of businesses complaining that the measure removes officers from homelessness outreach teams....
Andrew Naughtie 11 August 2020 11:20
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/seattle-carmen-best-defund-police-chief-resigns-black-lives-matter-a9664451.html
DIRECT HEADLINE:
Portland Police: Officers Fleeing In ‘Unprecedented’ Numbers, A ‘Win’ For ‘Defund The Police’ Movement
The flight of law enforcement from the city is “unprecedented,” Assistant Chief Michael Frome told the Portland Tribune. “We really have not seen this many people leaving at this stage in their career.”...Nine officers have resigned from the Portland Police Department since November, and another 14 have filed papers to leave by the end of January. Seven others have made initial filings preparing to retire. About 25 officers are looking to transfer to other police departments, Frome, who heads the Human Resources Department, said based off requests he has received for officers’ personnel files.
The departures come after a summer of unrest pummeled the city. Nightly protests and riots took place for over 100 days straight in Portland following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.....The activists’ calls to cut police budgets were picked up by some of Portland’s elected officials. In June, the City Council approved a $15 million cut to the police department’s budget to funnel more money into spending on social programs.....According to Frome, the department has been told to prepare for another $10 million cut to its police budget next year. The assistant police chief credited the “Defund the Police” movement with the cuts to his department....
“For a lot of these people that are choosing to go somewhere else, they spent a lot of months this last summer constantly being yelled at to ‘Quit your job, quit your job.’” Frome said. “That cumulative toll on our officers, it builds up. So in some ways, yes, there is a win by those that would want the police to be defunded.”..
Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland spearheaded an effort in June to “increase police accountability and reinvest in black and brown communities.” He proposed over $7 million in shifts from the police bureau, which included dissolving the city’s Gun Violence Reduction Team in favor of seeking ways to “fundamentally re-shape” shooting prevention....Portland — where rioters recently established the “Red House Autonomous Zone” — almost immediately witnessed a jump in shootings. Though year-to-date shootings had risen 10.8% by May, the months of June, July, August, and September witnessed 96.8%, 186.1%, 195.1%, and 243.8% hikes respectively.
By Tim Pearce Dec 24, 2020
https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-police-officers-fleeing-in-unprecedented-numbers-a-win-for-defund-the-police-movement
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So what does it say that Jenny Durkan's policies in Seattle, supported by those like Jayapal, including the one of the hardest pushes to Defund The Police in the entire nation, while factoring in the unchecked rioting and looting allowed there in 2020,
caused the first black female Chief of Police ever in that city, Carmen Best, to resign in protest over "Defund The Police"?
How does Defund The Police serve for greater racial harmony, and reach Jayapal's personal mandate for social justice and diversity, when it ensures to end the careers of the few African Americans, particularly women, who fight the odds and take a true position of power/influence/ability to make a difference?
And Seattle's problems mirrored many in Portland. Rogue City Councils, "autonomous zones", unchecked endless rioting and looting, Defund The Police, massive retirements and resignations from local law enforcement. There is a clear coordinated structural plan at work to destabilize civil order in Big Blue Cities.
Here's a practical problem no one wants to discuss - If you make the career of law enforcement, particularly the average street cop, so undesirable and so punitive - then you create a pathway where the best talent goes elsewhere.
You can't have idiotic public policy that demands better more socially conscious behavior from law enforcement, then defund them so they can't train to those standards, then create the logistical pathway where only the most mediocre candidates will want the job at all, thus thinning the overall quality of any department's ranks.
That's just plain stupid.
That's what a hard line progressive like Jayapal pushed for her entire political career. She ensured that when local law enforcement is forced to give her priority close protection coverage, that she either gets a lower quality of overall personnel to keep her safe or she will suck up some of the fewer better cops, leaving the every day working class rank and file citizen to get massacred out there and be abandoned yet again.
Yes, you are right, I do create "exceptional work"
I took your low value cheap personal attack and gave you a response better than you actually deserved. I raised the level of discussion and provided more practical and contextual information so others here can make their own informed decision and come to their own conclusions. If I am simply more effective in being persuasive or am more willing to engage in practical political discussion than you, and you can't and won't step up, that's your fault, not mine.