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Has Achieved Nirvana |
... all in the name of racial justice. I'm sure she won't lack for opportunities. https://www.usatoday.com/story...get-cuts/3342382001/
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Do you think they cut the budget because she's black?
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
It was probably a mixture of short-sightedness, ideological possession, and political expediency.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
Is it just possible that many police budgets are too large, and spent on the wrong things, completely in the absence of any politicking about defunding and systemic racism? | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Or maybe because Seattle police overreached in their use of tear gas, flash bangs and other crowd control measures? No, it surely couldn't be that.... for a group that prides itself on its skepticism.... I'm not saying that all the protests in Seattle, Portland and elsewhere have been peaceful kumbaya moments. But there's no doubt that the minority of violent actions, as despicable as they are, do not reflect what is really going on. But boy, don't those (often outdated, misappropriated or doctored) photographs make for great click-bait? | |||
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
They cut $4 million out of a a $400 million dollar budget, and she quit? There has to be more to the story....and I admit I haven't been keeping up....
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
They cut her own salary and those of the leadership substantially I think. 100k cut I think? DOn't quote me.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Ah, I see that's from the current year budget, and equates to an annual cut of $11 million.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
We know the motivations, and see the compromises. That's democratic (lower case d) politics in all its beauty and ugliness. Big deal. This budget cut was trivial so far. | |||
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
THat's a quote of my post from a month ago or so. I think that second black kid (age 14) shot by 'security' might have died too. He was hanging on by a thread at the time I wrote that. Seems like every generation has to prove Hobbes right yet again.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Heck, people in one city (Portland) can't even learn from the experience in another (Seattle) a few weeks earlier. Unless, of course, they really like the idea of the earlier city's experience and want to replicate it elsewhere for ideological reasons. | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
What should they have learned? jon_nyc: small sample sizes lead to greatly inflated percentages. But you know that. | |||
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
I see that now (numbers are in the article below). Plus it seems that she doesn't feel that she's involved in determining how to reimagine how policing in Seattle could change and how to implement a new structure. I can see why she left. https://www.king5.com/article/...ee-8ba1-597dd69cd2ca
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
@Nina - They do, so I wouldn't expect that percentage difference to scale. However the idea that eliminating police leads to peaceful coexistence rather than a Hobbesian state of nature was fully and irretrievably falsified even in that short time. Which was really my point.
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| Never Offline |
Nina, why do you suppose the police abandoned the station in CHOP? | |||
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