Current Events > Defunded Seattle police not investigating new adult sexual assault cases

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Luckily for Seattle they recently elected a new mayor who is pro Police and pledged to actually do something about the crazy spike in crimes all over the city. We will see if he can find a way to make good on that promise.

Luckily for Seattle they recently elected a new mayor who is pro Police and pledged to actually do something about the crazy spike in crimes all over the city. We will see if he can find a way to make good on that promise.

Why should police be the sole city department immune from budget decreases?

Imagine expecting them to be able to do their jobs effectively after cutting their funding.

Imagine expecting them to be able to do their jobs effectively after cutting their funding.

Imagine expecting them to be able to do their jobs effectively after cutting their funding.

I dont know if its because theyre defunded, after 2020. Nobody wants to be a cop anymore. I saw a picture of Chicago police went from 500 hired in 2019 to double digits this year.

They got a 2% cut at most. Shut the fuck up. Cops don't do their jobs regardless of funding. Just ask the parents of the dead children in Uvalde.

If only they hated being cops because of the bad apples, and not because they had to get vaccines and sort of face some backlash for their improprieties.

If only they hated being cops because of the bad apples, and not because they had to get vaccines and sort of face some backlash for their improprieties.

Is there any group of people on the planet more whiny and full of entitlement than the American police?

Not for nothing, clearance rates have dropped to all-time lows at the same time that police budgets have swollen to all-time highs, suggesting that more funding has actually resulted in police being less effective. It is a great public mismatch in understanding, training, and expectations, Baughman told me. Increases in police officers or police budgets have not been shown to reduce crime or make us safer.

To make matters worse, clearance rates can be easily manipulated and are not synonymous with actually solving crimes, just with making arrests. That means that those rock-bottom numbers are actually skewing reality in favor of cops, who are arresting the rightful perpetrator of a crime at rates even lower than those at which theyre clearing cases. All they tell us is whether there has been an arrest made in a case, Baughman said, not whether that person is actually the one that committed the crime or is eventually convicted of the crime Thats why I think convictions are a better measure of whether the crime was actually cleared.

Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations called for police budgets to be defunded, not a single major American city has slashed its police funding. In fact, almost all of them have ballooned spending on police forces. Repeatedly, President Biden has encouraged increased spending on police, recently calling on municipalities to direct their unspent COVID aid toward adding even more cops. The Biden administration requested $388 million in grant funding for police hiring in its 2022 budget proposal, more than double the top figure requested by the Trump administration. New York City even elected a former cop as its mayor, who just a few days ago announced a new PR campaign in support of cops and against the defund the police movement.
None of those moves have grappled with the historical ineffectiveness of current-day policing, or why police forces have been unable to convert generous budgets into effective crime-solving activities. There are a number of factors that go into explaining the collapse in clearance rates, including a lack of trust among communities with the police forces that serve them.

All that funding didn't do shit for 19 children in texas

I understand about being mad about that tragedy but trying to put it on cops all over the US is illogical

This. They're also probably not doing anything out of spite as well.

Acting like shootings don't happen everywhere else when he's just giving an example of the most recent high profile shooting is even more illogical.

Sign up to be a cop today Ellis

All of a sudden you're responsible for shootings all across the country?

Okay.

I understand about being mad about that tragedy but trying to put it on cops all over the US is illogical

https://prospect.org/justice/why-are-police-so-bad-at-their-jobs/

Some excerpts. I did the bolding for emphasis.

Yup, it was either here or on reddit where there was an article about arrest for crimes being down pretty much all across the board. Even in departments that got more money.

Bring back the CHAZ zone. Where vigilantes run the place with senseless murder and looting.

I dont think its any of that. They already took away all vaccine requirements. I think people realized this much stress and being hated aint worth it when most departments across the US pay like 40k