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It sounds like a very similar situation to Seattle. While living there, it was remarkable to me how useless and/or hostile the police felt compared to the polic
by slaymaker1907 4y ago
It sounds like a very similar situation to Seattle. While living there, it was remarkable to me how useless and/or hostile the police felt compared to the police in other cities. I've been threatened multiple times while going home late at night and it was never the police that actually helped. I'm convinced we really need to get better at helping each other as a community rather than relying primarily on the police.
- carbadtraingood 4y agoSeattle Police Department is terrible, but still the city keeps trying to give them more funding.
- astrange 4y agoGiving it less funding won't make it better, nor would it magically make something else appear. You'd need more funding to have a program like "actually firing them if they don't do their jobs".
- vkou 4y agoIf you think SPD is bad, try Kent. [1] A workplace of someone I know is constantly getting burglarized. They even found the guy selling their stolen stuff on Facebook. Kent PD, of course, won't lift a finger about it. Yet, somehow, they manage to soak up half the city's budget, and also secure a million-and-a-half dollar settlement for a police sergeant who was fired over having a nazi poster in his office. KPD doesn't even need to pretend that defund movements are to blame for their incompetence - because as far as I can tell, the mayor's full-time job is covering their ass. [1] For people who don't live here, Kent isn't some liberal hippy paradise.
- icelancer 4y agoHa, sounds like you know me and my business. Yeah, happens all the time. We have cameras and even know who did it. Doesn't matter. Cops don't do anything.