Seattle City Council Moves to Abolish the Police Department and Replace it with ‘Community-Led Publi

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  1. straight ahead

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    Seattle's getting an NHL expansion team (which I don't like). Being that it's Seattle, I think 20 NHL guys are tougher than the rest of the city anyway. Maybe they can call them the cops.
     
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    I wonder how Microsoft with is gigantic Seattle-based Headquarters feels about this........

    The community led entities probably won't feel obligated to interdict heinous felons. After all it was felons that gave birth to them. They will probably just focus on domestic calls, not having a clue that these are considered the most risky and dangerous by the (former) police.
     
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    Microsoft is in Redmond.

    Billy Gates doesn't play that Seattle lunacy game.
     
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    Honestly I could care less what they do in Seattle or for that matter in any of the cities since I don't live there and it has no impact on me personally. Let them do what they want; if it works, then god bless them. If it doesn't, they'll deal with it. For me its not worth getting all worked up over it.
     
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    The only problem with that is when it gets bad, and it always gets bad, the locals start abandoning the sinking ship like rats, and they spread out across the country and infect other cities with the same leftist brain disease that ruined the last place they left.

    Like a cancer, it spreads.
     
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  6. Sahba*

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    We all know that there is a 'ripple effect' & what happens deleterious thousand of miles away - still does have an impact on our lives / the fabric of our culture... just saying... (imho)
     
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    Btw, Biden gives a great speech re. Cops in PA- A stark contrast... to all these 'shenanigans,' That's what I'm voting back into office ~ 'law & order'...

     
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    Love it! Would also love your profile pic if it featured you in a MAGA shirt and hat....
     
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    We'll just have to deal with it if and when that occurs; for me it's unlikely since I live in a very rural part of the state.
     
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    How so? They don't run our police departments (for those whose communities have them) or have a say in how we live our lives; as for the fabric of our culture, it has been changed so many times since the founding of our country to change it again won't make much of a difference since we are considered the melting pot of the world. I suspect things will die down eventually once the election has been concluded.
     
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    I would submit that you are wrong here... What happens in these 'far flung pockets' of the 'united states' impacts our nation 'as a whole'... to some extent.
     
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    Seattle Moves To Replace 'Racist' Police With 'Trauma-Informed, Gender-Affirming, Anti-Racist' Organizations
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    Citizens On Patrol...

    The bill justifies the move by pointing to the prevalence of 'white supremacy culture' and the Seattle PD's role in 'perpetuating racism and violence.'
     
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    Unless you're black, then you get a written apology and the officer is suspended for being racist. After all, he only stopped the driver because he was black.
     
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    Can you elaborate more on this; more specifically "our nation as a whole" if you would.
     
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    PJ Media is making a Mountain out of a Molehill.

    PJ Media has a history of these kind of Alarmist RW Narratives:

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    In REALITY, Most of the crowd was gone before the cops arrived.

    - A group of about 200 protesters went to a quiet neighborhood that belonged to Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best this weekend, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

    The incident occurred on Saturday night. The Sheriff Adam Fortney was notified around 8:30 p.m. and by the time deputies arrived, most of the protesters were already dispersing or already gone.
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    In any event, if she feels threatened, she should get 24-Hour round-the-clock protection at her house.

    Problem solved

     
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    How many menacing riot rats would you tolerate on your lawn before you considered it a problem?
     
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    Heroic Neighbors Defend Home of Seattle Police Chief From Rioters
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    Well, if you want private policing to replace public policing, maybe that's not a bad idea. That may be where we go next.

    We went to Public Policing to protect criminals from Citizens, who, while they could and did implement justice, sometimes it was shorter on due process than were were comfortable with, hence, professional police forces. But, if we are going to end Public Policing, I would agree that neighbors banding together to hire private police forces is probably a good idea.
     
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    What's your opinion on these sorts of tactics? Showing up on private property to protest specific political targets?
     
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    Shooting a few dozen "aggressive protesters" would solve the problem too.
     
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    Apparently one is not black if they do not fit the demanded narrative.
     

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