{"id":513,"date":"2020-08-11T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T12:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=513"},"modified":"2020-08-11T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T12:35:31","slug":"seattle-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/11\/seattle-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle is Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The usual Youtube news feed reveals the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frxCGoy4cvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>26 seconds of &#8220;Seattle City Council Defunding Police, Slash Jobs and Salaries&#8221;, and that&#8217;s it. This is quoted on a display card authored by Barnini Chakraborty, of whom is a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/c\/barnini-chakraborty\" target=\"_blank\">feature writer for Fox News<\/a> (and a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barnini\" target=\"_blank\">Journalist by Twitter trade<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless, WE DO OUR RESEARCH!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeattleCouncil\/status\/1292982557802340352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seattle city council tweets the following, in relation to the above clip:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;NEWS RELEASE: @cmkshama issued the following news release following today\u2019s City Council vote adopting a revised 2020 budget. Sawant was the sole vote against the legislation. <a href=\"https:\/\/council.seattle.gov\/2020\/08\/10\/councilmember-sawant-city-council-democrats-have-approved-a-budget-that-carries-out-austerity-fails-to-defund-police-our-movement-needs-to-build-even-stronger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/council.seattle.gov\/2020\/08\/10\/councilmember-sawant-city-council-democrats-have-approved-a-budget-that-carries-out-austerity-fails-to-defund-police-our-movement-needs-to-build-even-stronger\/<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, lets see what we got on this Seattle Government Website. It does Identify the Jobs and Salaries that were cut. Awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>We won a small reduction in the police department<\/strong>, showing both the strength of our movement and also the imperative to continue organizing and fighting.&nbsp;&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s not specific&#8230;.I&#8217;d rather it be rather specific, but I suppose it&#8217;s not saying &#8220;we killed off our entire police force&#8221;. Seattle <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/police\/about-us\/about-the-department\/department-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\">publicly provides it&#8217;s police force statistics<\/a>, so out of a city population of 747,300 (2019) with a force of &#8220;1,325 deployable, 1,433 total&#8221; (1 officer per 564 people), even if a small amount was 49% you&#8217;d still have 649 officers that were considered able to be employed because they embodied what a Police Officer was. I can be fine with that. There is always room to hire properly trained and legit people after a mass firing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our movement succeeded in reducing the bloated salaries of <a href=\"https:\/\/sawant.seattle.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bloated-SPD-executive-pay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the 13 top SPD executives<\/a>, winning an amendment in Budget Committee meetings last week and then fending off a last-minute sneak attack today by the Democratic establishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>So they made it so that Seattle Police Executives are not paid more than Mayors in other states. I&#8217;m sure if there were stocks\/options that they could offer those and might be spun a bit differently in the media, but that&#8217;s not how cities work. As an Executive, if you perform a good job, you get paid, but if you do a shit job, you either get paid less or you get told to find a new job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So, chalk one up for the 26 seconds of statements that are true, but still completely misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual Youtube news feed reveals the following: 26 seconds of &#8220;Seattle City Council Defunding Police, Slash Jobs and Salaries&#8221;, and that&#8217;s it. This is quoted on a display card authored by Barnini Chakraborty, of whom is a feature writer for Fox News (and a Journalist by Twitter trade). Regardless, WE DO OUR RESEARCH!!! 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