Seattle police chief retires after vote to trim up to 100 officers, $3 million from the force

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Hours after the Seattle City Council voted to strip about $3 million from the police department and reduce its size by up to 100 officers as part of a push to fundamentally change policing in the city, Police Chief Carmen Best announced her retirement.

Best, the city’s first Black police chief, leaves after months of turmoil that made Seattle a focal point for national protests against police brutality and racial injustice. In a letter to Seattle police officers, the 55-year-old called the decision “difficult” but said “when it’s time, it’s time.”

“I am confident the department will make it through these difficult times,” she wrote in the letter, which the Seattle Times republished. “I look forward to seeing how this department moves forward through the process of re-envisioning public safety.”

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D), who opposed the city council’s police cuts, which would also have trimmed Best’s pay, said she was disappointed in her decision to retire.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/seattle-police-chief-retires-after-vote-to-trim-up-to-100-officers-dollar3-million-from-the-force/ar-BB17OV2C?li=BBnb7Kz

I hope this works out for the better. I saw some rather sexist vitriol on Twitter last night directed at Chief Best from some supposedly left leaning types. Let's be better than this.

[Aristus]

1. I've got Facebook friends who are running around like their hair is on fire,

screaming that this is going to turn Seattle into a nightmarish Mad Max hellscape, and that Tacoma should brace itself for 'refugees'.

I doubt that rather seriously.