“I regret deeply that she concluded that the best way to serve the city and help the department was a change in leadership, in the hope that would change the dynamics to move forward with the City Council,” Durkan wrote.
The measures would cut less than $4 million of the department’s more than $400 million annual budget this year and reduce the department's 1,400 police force by 100 through layoffs and attrition. Best’s roughly $285,000 annual salary and the pay of other top police leaders also will be cut, and officers will be taken off a team that removes homeless camps.
The reductions fell far short of the 50% cut to the department that many Black Lives Matter protesters have demanded. Council member Kshama Sawant was the only one to vote against the budget package, saying it does not do enough to defund the police.“A budget that does not meet basic social needs and that continues to throw money at a racist, violent institution is a failed budget."
Several council members said Monday that the changes were a starting point in a long process to reimagine policing and public safety. Best's announcement and the cuts to the department come after thousands of demonstrators marched in Seattle's streets after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Protests have criticized the department's use of tear gas and other less-than-lethal crowd control methods and recently marched
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Can’t blame her.
The terrorist are licking their chops they say this can't be no better no matter how they do, they don't have to do nothing but sit back and watch those dumb idiots destroy our country.
What a shitty headline...less than 4M. How about 100K of her salary, how about 100 officers. How about the targeted attack on her leadership team's salaries? What happened to unbiased reporting?
Watch as crime rate increases like it has been since the riots. Businesses depart slowly, unemployment increases & economy goes downhill. No wonder more people are moving to red states.
That is no reason to step down. Fight! The good fight.
Miss leading head line, she a quitting because her salary is to cut by almost 50 %.
Take some of those cops with ya!!
AKA quitting. she should stay and stand up to those communist and make them fire her. Do your job
Good for her
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All to appease a small but vocal group of progressive idiots
Good for her. The whole state should fall into the pacific
It’s a 1% cut in funding...what is the big deal? Seems like most PDs have bloated budget with tens of thousands of hours of overtime for officers to issue traffic tickets and sit at construction sites.
Who can blame her? Seattle is run by idiots; they’re woke, but dumb as the day is long.
And in what shape is Seattle?
SeattlePD should walk off the job from Thursday to the following Monday just to give the ppl of Seattle a taste of what their city would look like without law and order.
I don’t blame her. With all the cuts and the morale of officers and also with the public she was in a mo win, no succeed situation. Her replacement will be in the same position too. We will see this across the country.
super woke!
It was reported as a retirement. Which is it? Another question here. Why are There so few reports regarding McKenzie Scott(Formerly Bezos) gift to Historical Black Colleges? This was such a gift. $1.7 Billion to 6 Colleges. Largest gifts to schools. Why so little acknowledgement
Sure, your headline says LESS than $4 million? Like that's nothing? Did you know Seattle needed more police before this fiasco? Manipulating the travesty of the cuts by tailoring your headline does nothing for the reputation of USA Today.
That decision will come back to haunt them....wait and see
Quitter!!!
Weird you’d frame it in the tweet as “less than $4 million” instead of “nearly $4 million”. Especially since you did frame it the other way in the story (which less people will read) I’m guessing different people wrote each. This is how subtle bias manifests itself in media.
Love your communist spin on things USA (United Socialists of ANTIFA) 'by less than $4 million.'
This is very sad a woman that has worked very hard her whole life to overcome so many obstacles is forced into resigning because City doesn't want to let her do her job
way to go Seattle
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What is this tweet By less than 4 million? You are so skewed it's ridiculous! How about courage that it's almost $4million?
You left her no choice , I hope you know what you are doing
It appears Seattle is about to become antifa’s dream city.
She's not stupid grab that pension and run like hell because that's what she turned that city into.
kshaw58
Don't blame her with the messed up crap going on there restricting police intervention now cutting off funding. Hope all the police walk off and support her.
No loss at all
Huh, so the liberal leadership in that town ran a BLACK FEMALE out of office by reducing her budget and pay. Wow...pretty sure that’s considered racism in liberal land. 🤨
Great move!
The measures would cut less than $4 million of the department’s more than $400 million annual budget this year
Bwahaha. So... is this incompetence by the police chief? Or is it the failure of the Mayor? Diversity Quota, Virtue Signaled into power, Black Woman Police Chief? Or is it the Leftist Feminist Socialist Mayors failed policies? Let the mental gymnastics begin!
That’s right. Good for her. It’s about accountability/ prosecutions of necessary not defunding institutions.
Nice work Seattle
Cutting back on Police capability? Who is in charge? The Mafia? South American Drug Cartels?
👋👋deuces...✌️
Blue lives matter 💙
Because she is a realist and these great thinkers on their city council seem lost to social media
This is too bad. She was a rock star.
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