Following the death of George Floyd, protests and riots erupted in Seattle. Amid radicals looting and attacking police, Seattle’s homicide rate spiked to a 26-year high. Nonetheless, the Seattle council attempted to slash the police department’s budget once more, but to no avail. During the particular uptick in crime, the number of deployable officers in the left-wing stronghold was about 1,200. This is the lowest since 1990.
Jason Rantz, a Seattle-based talk show host on KTTH Radio and a frequent guest on Fox News, told The Federalist that “the numbers you’re getting only tell a small part of the picture.”
“You have dozens of officers who are burning their sick and vacation time and will exit the force afterward,” Rantz said. “You have officers who are applying elsewhere and booked to turn in their equipment and uniform, which means they will be gone but haven’t yet been reported as part of the separations yet.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com
It’s the new math. Presence of police officers equals more crime. Delete police officers, delete crime.
What could possibly go wrong?
Actually, it is not the actions of the policemen out on the beat, it is the prosecuting attorneys and the elected or appointed magistrates who will not prosecute the criminals when they are caught, or do not pass adequate sentencing in those few instances where prosecution is enabled. The prospective criminal has a very good chance of simply walking away, released before the arresting officer has even completed the paperwork, and the “prosecutorial discretion” is made not to even honor the charges before a grand jury, let alone ever getting into a courtroom.
Repeated rearrests have no cumulative effect whatsoever.
Jason Rantz, a Seattle-based talk show host on KTTH Radio and a frequent guest on Fox News, told The Federalist that “the numbers you’re getting only tell a small part of the picture.”
“You have dozens of officers who are burning their sick and vacation time and will exit the force afterward,” Rantz said. “You have officers who are applying elsewhere and booked to turn in their equipment and uniform, which means they will be gone but haven’t yet been reported as part of the separations yet.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com
It’s the new math. Presence of police officers equals more crime. Delete police officers, delete crime.
What could possibly go wrong?
Actually, it is not the actions of the policemen out on the beat, it is the prosecuting attorneys and the elected or appointed magistrates who will not prosecute the criminals when they are caught, or do not pass adequate sentencing in those few instances where prosecution is enabled. The prospective criminal has a very good chance of simply walking away, released before the arresting officer has even completed the paperwork, and the “prosecutorial discretion” is made not to even honor the charges before a grand jury, let alone ever getting into a courtroom.
Repeated rearrests have no cumulative effect whatsoever.
