Jennie Taer
Investigative Reporter
The liberal city of Seattle is losing police officers amid a major spike in crime, 770 KTTH reported. “We’re screwed,” former King County Sheriff John Urqhart said, according to 770 KTTH. In
total, 122 officers have left the Seattle Police Department in 2022,
including six that left in August, 770 KTTH reported, citing a police
source. Since the city council voted to defund the police department in 2020, nearly 500 police officers have left the force..............“It’s going to take at least a decade, at a minimum, to get to the level of 1400 to 1500 people at a minimum"..............To Read More...
My Take - So, we're shocked that not having sufficient police forces causes crime to rise? Yet that's what the citizens of Seattle voted for, and now they've facing the consequences and those consequences will not only include crime rates, it will include business failures, drop in property values, the most productive citizens fleeing to safer communities and that will take not just a decade to correct, it will take decades.
Well, they asked for it, they got it, and my view is .....schadenfreude!
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