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Seattle police stopped investigating adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-stopped-investigating-adult-sexual-assaults-this-year-memo-showsSeattle police’s sexual assault and child abuse unit staff has been so depleted that it stopped assigning to detectives this year new cases with adult victims, according to an internal memo sent to interim police Chief Adrian Diaz in April.
The unit’s sergeant put her staffing crisis in stark terms.
“The community expects our agency to respond to reports of sexual violence,” Sgt. Pamela St. John wrote, “and at current staffing levels that objective is unattainable.”
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My comment: scare tactics for more police funding instead of change in policing