Seattle City Council doubles down, overrides mayor's veto

[Daryl Hunt]

The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to override Mayor Jenny Durkan’s vetoes of council bills meant to start shrinking the police force and scaling up community solutions this year. Council members chose to stick with the 2020 budget bills instead of a substitute proposal that the mayor had said she could accept.
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Under the substitute proposal disclosed Monday, there would have been no layoffs this year; the police commanders would have kept their wages; the Navigation Team would have remained intact; community-based public safety programs would have received $2.5, rather than $14 million; and the research project would have received $1 million this year, rather than $3 million. [the city council didn't pass this one]
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The budget bills passed by the council and vetoed by Durkan last month included provisions meant to reduce the police force by up to 100 officers through layoffs and attrition; cut the wages of police commanders; dismantle a city Navigation Team that clears certain homeless encampments; borrow $14 million to fund community-based public-safety programs; and use $3 million in emergency reserves to fund a community-led public-safety research project.

Seattle City Council votes to override Mayor Jenny Durkan’s vetoes of police and public-safety changes to 2020 budget – The Seattle Times

So, they're not going to clear certain homeless encampments, probably the ones that aren't near where the council members live. According to ex-police chief Best, the SPD was already under-staffed, so cutting more officers isn't going to help meet the need for public safety and security. And I seriously doubt that community-based public safety programs are going to make a difference, certainly not in the immediate future. Violence and crime are about to go up big time in Seattle IMHO. So are local taxes.

Newark, NJ. found a way to do the community improvements without defunding the cops. And it is under a program that Obama did with an EO in 2016. It's still on the books but Rump refuses to use it. Rump would rather have the riots than the peace. Yah, I know, you Party of the Rumper Cult Members won't believe this but facts don't get in the way or your hate and fear tactics.

Rump needs to be sent to NY and let them deal with him. Afterall, they helped to create the problem.

Why are you blaming a Federal President for the issues of local governments?

Because, as I have stated, the tools for Barr are in place to stop this cold like it was done in Newark. And yes, it took a Lawsuit to force Newark to do it done by the ACLU but it was done. And it worked. Not overnight but it worked.

What is the “consent decree”?

The “consent decree” is a formal agreement—or contract—between the City of Newark and the Department of Justice to make specific reforms to the NPD. Implementation of the reforms in this contract will be overseen by federal monitors agreed to by the DOJ and Newark. The consent decree is enforced by a federal judge in New Jersey.

But it was done by an EO by Obama and that just can't be a good thing.

So Trump should do it why?

If you have to ask, stay home on election day and get drunk instead.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Seattle has to live with itself. It's up to the people who live there. They get what they will allow.

 

[Thinker101]

The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to override Mayor Jenny Durkan’s vetoes of council bills meant to start shrinking the police force and scaling up community solutions this year. Council members chose to stick with the 2020 budget bills instead of a substitute proposal that the mayor had said she could accept.
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Under the substitute proposal disclosed Monday, there would have been no layoffs this year; the police commanders would have kept their wages; the Navigation Team would have remained intact; community-based public safety programs would have received $2.5, rather than $14 million; and the research project would have received $1 million this year, rather than $3 million. [the city council didn't pass this one]
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The budget bills passed by the council and vetoed by Durkan last month included provisions meant to reduce the police force by up to 100 officers through layoffs and attrition; cut the wages of police commanders; dismantle a city Navigation Team that clears certain homeless encampments; borrow $14 million to fund community-based public-safety programs; and use $3 million in emergency reserves to fund a community-led public-safety research project.

Seattle City Council votes to override Mayor Jenny Durkan’s vetoes of police and public-safety changes to 2020 budget – The Seattle Times

So, they're not going to clear certain homeless encampments, probably the ones that aren't near where the council members live. According to ex-police chief Best, the SPD was already under-staffed, so cutting more officers isn't going to help meet the need for public safety and security. And I seriously doubt that community-based public safety programs are going to make a difference, certainly not in the immediate future. Violence and crime are about to go up big time in Seattle IMHO. So are local taxes.

Newark, NJ. found a way to do the community improvements without defunding the cops. And it is under a program that Obama did with an EO in 2016. It's still on the books but Rump refuses to use it. Rump would rather have the riots than the peace. Yah, I know, you Party of the Rumper Cult Members won't believe this but facts don't get in the way or your hate and fear tactics.

Rump needs to be sent to NY and let them deal with him. Afterall, they helped to create the problem.

Gee, increasing the number of police reduces crime....what a shock.