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Seattle Implodes After Defunding The Police
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:41 am
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:41 am
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Seattle’s efforts to defund its police department and transfer some of its responsibilities to other city agencies resulted in $5 million worth of wrongful parking tickets and other administrative dysfunction, according to The Seattle Times.
Seattle is refunding roughly 100,000 parking tickets worth approximately $5 million total after transferring parking enforcement duties from police to civilian parking enforcement officers in the fall of 2021, finding that the civilian officers lacked the legal authority to write the tickets, according to The Seattle Times. Parking officers also conducted more than 10,000 car tows and impounded 1,700 cars without the proper authority during this period.
“What’s going to happen here is that we’re going to get sued, I can guarantee it,” said Chuck Labertew, president of Lincoln Towing, which has the sole contract for city-initiated towing, according to The Seattle Times. “And I’m going to forward every one of those lawsuits on over to the city.”
The decision to remove this responsibility from police was part of a push in 2020 to reduce police funding and have civilians take on jobs typically handled by police, according to The Seattle Times. The City Council cut the police budget by 17% in 2020, far short of its 50% goal.
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Crime has soared in Seattle in recent years: the city saw a 95% increase in shots fired and a 171% increase in people being shot from 2021 to 2022, according to The Seattle Times. Seattle’s violent crime rate, which had been steady for 30 years, suddenly jumped 20% in 2021.
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Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:43 am to member12
quote:That's frankly a much lower increase than I was expecting. They might actually be turning the corner - the newly-elected City Attorney is actually a republican who plans on prosecuting.
Seattle’s violent crime rate, which had been steady for 30 years, suddenly jumped 20% in 2021.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:43 am to member12
think they had enough yet?
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:43 am to member12
Shocked
*heavy sarcasm intended*
*heavy sarcasm intended*
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:43 am to member12
Getting police off of parking maid duty makes complete sense. Doing so without making sure your laws are written in such a way that it’s legal is very, very stupid.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:43 am to member12
I was told by the pink pussy hat brigade that the opposite would happen.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:44 am to member12
They're getting what they voted for, good and hard.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:45 am to member12
With the whole parking situation… they transferred the responsibility to a group that didn’t have legal authority (yet). Not really what imploding means. All they have to do is fix the transfer properly and they are right back on track.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:45 am to member12
This is a surprise to only those who are full blown retards.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:47 am to MorbidTheClown
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hate to see it
But also.... I love to see it.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:47 am to member12
You mean to tell me incompetent progressives didn't think about their rash proposals more than 3 seconds before implementing them? Wow, that's very unusual for them.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:47 am to member12
Leftists are incompetent morons who base all of their policies on raw emotion.
More at 11
More at 11
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:47 am to SixthAndBarone
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All they have to do is fix the transfer properly and they are right back on track.
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Crime has soared in Seattle in recent years: the city saw a 95% increase in shots fired and a 171% increase in people being shot from 2021 to 2022, according to The Seattle Times. Seattle’s violent crime rate, which had been steady for 30 years, suddenly jumped 20% in 2021.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:49 am to nes2010
I literally began by saying: With the whole parking situation
I was talking about the parking situation. Not the gun violence.
I was talking about the parking situation. Not the gun violence.
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:49 am to member12
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This post was edited on 8/26/22 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:50 am to member12
I’m more shocked they admitted it
Posted on 6/7/22 at 11:50 am to Joshjrn
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Getting police off of parking maid duty makes complete sense. Doing so without making sure your laws are written in such a way that it’s legal is very, very stupid.
this
but this just illustrates how performative all the "defund the police" actions were
moving the parking maids to the Roads Dept to end racial inequality is peak government pandering
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