Grossman, for your transparency. Nope, not my job, not going to do that for you-unless you’re offering to pay me? Either it’s in SPD budget or someone else’s. 41 officers have quit, three said it was because of the city council “among other problems”, zero said it was because of “people like” us.You are quoting 2018’s 109 officers leaving, which was happening everywhere around the country at the time, no officers said anything about it being the council or us, they left to work in smaller towns closer to where they lived. SPD operates within a framework that divides the city into five geographical areas called "precincts". I was out in the front yard about 4am the other morning to let my dog out and heard gunfire. I think this statement is a little misleading or over simplified.NickG – I’m…I’m not even going to get into your math here (although you are also just assuming that police staff all districts equally not dependent on actual levels of crime?) I support reallocating duties and corresponding funds after appropriate analysis but not this arbitrary 50% cut that is obviously political showmanship. “We don’t have the funding to station on officer on Alki anymore! Police reform!!! Condo fire in Westwood. Isn’t policing a 24 hour thing?
That just cannot happen.Do your research on what your average officer makes before you start making blanket statements. Did you read the statement above from the precinct commander? That’s a big job and frankly it’s weird you’re asking a random person on the internet to do it.Look, you can see something wrong with a person or a company, you can see they’re unhealthy or the company is bloated, clear as day you can see it–doesn’t mean you’re the one needs to hold their hand while they get healthy, doesn’t mean you need to come up with a line-by-line plan to fix the company.Captain Grossman, thanks so much for the update & Welcome to West Seattle!My husband & I have lived on SW Admiral Way for over 40 years & love our North Admiral location however, in the last few years the excessive speeding and loud noise vehicles has gotten out of control. Even if those instances are instances where it is back pay/overtime pay, there is something broken with an organization if even the possibility of making that much money exists, apart from the most senior leadership on the force. Media makes you think cops are shooting and killing more people than they really are. Mabye SPD would have more money if money was being wasted on replacing broken windows…removing graffitit and putting out arsonists starting fires…..or maybe not paying hundreds of thousands in medical bills to treat hurt officers from having rocks and fireworks thrown at them.Sign the petition to STOP the defunding of the Seattle Police Department!Go to stopdefunding.comOur City leadership is so misguided and inept.Lmao excuses excuses the police are a joke!!!!
I also wish that everyone who is against defunding the police takes a minute to learn about what it actually means. Pretty easy to not get shot by me for breaking into my home and not get arrested and do real time for car theft. I wonder how many times the SFD has only 8 people in West Seattle.How do you get the number of ‘over 1,000 officers’ available for deployment? I think it’s fair for people to get compensated for overtime, don’t you? I hope the social worker can find the shooter and give them a hug. De-fund police, close the jails, fire the prosecutors. Alki has always been a disaster in summer .All the tear gas they need, all the tanks they need, all the consent decrees for excessive force they need…wait what?That’s taking it to the extreme your example of tanks and not at all what I meant Defunding the police means less police to actively keep order at places like alki that for years have been a problem with crowds and poor behavior. Fremont Bridge Keep speaking the truth.And you don’t want social service or mental health people responding to a situation like your ‘s Hockeywitch! Seattle Police and Fire Enhanced scanner with talkgroup encoded.