Can you believe it? Seattle is having trouble keeping and recruiting officers. Police staffing issues come to a head in Seattle City Council hearing
SPD has now revised its expected numbers with 98 projected hires by the end of the year and 113 separations. If these numbers pan out, it would produce $4.1 million to $4.5 million in salary savings for 2022, until overtime is factored in.
And there is a lot of overtime. 99.7 percent of all officers are working overtime. They have taken detectives and put them back into patrol, because they need to answer 911 calls. But that impacts the ability to close cases and get justice for victims.
Imagine that. After several years of vilifying police, cities like Seattle can't hire police.
And you know, people do call 911 in an emergency. Here is what SPD Chief Adrian Diaz had to say.
Our priority one call response time has gone up, as well as our priority two calls have actually exceeded over 30 minutes and our priority three calls are almost over an hour. So even when people do need 911 services, we’re not able to respond in an adequate amount of time.
So all that "Defund the police" and hating police has real world impacts when people ACTUALLY need police. Who could have imagined that?
Actually the state of policing in Seattle has been deteriorating for sometime. Take a look at the video "Seatlle Is Dying." Not only is it interesting in its own right, but a part of it talks about the police force, and how policies were destroying morale in the years before 2019.
Western Civilization was nice while it lasted.
Democrat run cities and counties doing the "defund the police" and then find it hurts them and try to change it back it does not work. The police learn quick they are in a place that cares nothing for them and does not have their back and will leave. No Democrat run place survives running good and turns bad. This is Seattle's result as it is a Blue Mess.
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