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Some of the things the city of Seattle is considering cutting out of the police budget...
DoogieMcDoogerson
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This is insane.
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires.
- sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team.
- This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing.
- Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project.
- Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit.
- This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct.
- Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department.
- Yeah, give this to the libtards.
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Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires.
- sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team.
- This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing.
- Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project.
- Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit.
- This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct.
- Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department.
- Yeah, give this to the libtards.
-
Comments
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Execution of the vast majority of arrest/search warrants DO NOT involve SWAT teams.
There are so many stupid fucking cowboy cops in SPD it's a decades-long joke of a department. Most hate the City and treat citizens like dirt. And they lie like rugs, make up total bullshit on the fly "This is Private Property" they'll yell while standing on a City Sidewalk or County Property, and the list goes on and on. I've read the same fucking police reports with the exact same "observations" a hundred times. Some cops are too stupid to even proofread their reports after sitting on their asses collecting overtime, probably while watching porn.
Despite all of the above, I support cops because their job is a fucking dumpster fire, and I do sympathize. But don't pretend for a second they are heroes, or follow the law, because I know better. There are too many power-hungry dicks on the force and they've brought much of this present shit show upon themselves.
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/29/7083371/swat-no-knock-raids-police-killed-civilians-dangerous-work-drugs
But government always grows.
In the 1970s, there were about 300 SWAT raids per year. "As of 2005," says Balko, "100 to 150 per day."
What began as a few specialized groups of police trained to address genuine threats to safety has degenerated into small armies descending on organic farms where farmers sell unpasteurized milk and legal medical marijuana dispensaries getting raided as if they were heavily armed threats.
BTW: I said SWAT teams are highly trained, not all police.
You sound very sympathetic in paragraph 2 of your diatribe.
Are you a defense attorney?
Television is precisely like real life. I must have missed that short-lived series from 1975-76.
Wait for swat means why risk my ass?
No knocks are to keep the drugs from being flushed
Not worth it IMO