Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold called for White Police Officers to be fired first when they cut the budget of The Seattle Police department by 50%.
Seattle city councilmember says fire white police officers first https://t.co/ExhL1t8Xrv
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 20, 2020
I want to thank my Council colleagues for their words supporting our efforts to defund SPD so that we can reinvest in evidence-based public safety community interventions by reducing the kinds of 911 calls officers respond to. THREAD:
— Lisa Herbold (@Lisa_Herbold) July 13, 2020
And my Council colleagues work considering whether specialized police units are the best way to address needs around homelessness, mental health, & violence interruption.
— Lisa Herbold (@Lisa_Herbold) July 13, 2020
The Council is continuing to work through the SPD budget and we are in the very beginning stages of developing proposals. I want to address some misinformation SPD leadership is prognosticating on the content of budget cut proposals that haven’t been developed yet.
— Lisa Herbold (@Lisa_Herbold) July 13, 2020
In the case layoffs are necessary, one threat is firing BIPOC officers first. Chief can request the Public Safety Civil Service Commission ED for permission to lay off “out of order” when doing so is in “the interest of efficient operations of his or her department.”
— Lisa Herbold (@Lisa_Herbold) July 13, 2020
This means Chief doesn’t have to fire the newest hired first. Chief says firing BIPOC members of the SPD would be harmful & I agree. I know she can argue just as convincingly that maintaining the employment of BIPOC officers is in the interest of efficient operations of the SPD.
— Lisa Herbold (@Lisa_Herbold) July 13, 2020
They were already understaffed:
SPD was already facing a critical staffing shortage before the civil unrest and was operating below 60 percent capacity. Many officers have laterally transferred to other departments, retired or quit with over 2/3rds of officers in their exit interviews citing the Seattle City Council and other politicians as the reason for their departure.
The Seattle Police Department hired 108 officers in 2019, which was the highest number of officers hired in over a decade at the department. Of those 108 hires, 39 percent were people of color, the highest percentage of people of color hired in a single year in the department’s history.
Unbelievable.
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