Roy Exum: Defunded Police Stagger
Thursday, July 29, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
Just a year ago, our liberal-led cities were ordering the riot police to “stand down,” and their city councils were demanding police budgets be trimmed by over 50 percent. The idea of using psychology types to defuse a problem rather than a badge-and-a-gun greatly appealed to anti-cop enthusiasts. But now the “chickens have come home to roost” and those hand-twisters like Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan don’t know quite how to admit such folly.
At a Monday press conference, the embattled woman stood and said, “As a city, we cannot continue on this current trajectory of losing police officers." She added. "Over the past 17 months, the Seattle Police Department has lost 250 police officers which is the equivalent of over 300,000 service hours.