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Police budgets are effectively infinite. The nypd has bases internationally, Seattle's police dept has a budget of like half a billion every year. Local governm
by yareal 3y ago
Police budgets are effectively infinite. The nypd has bases internationally, Seattle's police dept has a budget of like half a billion every year. Local governments will defund every service before reducing police budgets even fractionally.
- astrange 3y agoNYC and Seattle are major cities. Most police departments in the US aren't in major cities. (Also you forgot about inflation.)
- djbusby 3y agoYou're getting grey everywhere but for context SPD 2022 budget proposal was 365M, down from $401M in 2020.
- yareal 3y agoThe nypd has offices in sixteen cities internationally. Seattle police department budgets passed four hundred million and were only recently reduced by progressive members of the city council. They've had decades of year over year growth that exceeds both city spending growth and population growth. Bruce Harrell, Seattles mayor, is trying to increase budgets for police again and the one time reduction is unlikely to stick given the change in membership in the city council. One single reduction in a ballooning police budget is not indicative of the overall trend of massively increasing police spending. Also, the budget was 409 in 2020: https://spdbudget.seattle.gov/ https://spdbudget.seattle.gov/