{"id":77851,"date":"2022-02-22T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77851"},"modified":"2022-02-22T08:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:10:24","slug":"77851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77851","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle PD having trouble hiring new officers<\/a><\/p>\n

Politicians often can\u2019t really afford to be far-sighted. Their constituents want immediate results, not the promise of better days down the road.<\/p>\n

Yet officials can be far too short-sighted for their own good. Seattle, for example, was another of a handful of cities that\u00a0cut funding to their police department<\/a>\u00a0not all that long ago.<\/p>\n

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Now, that may well be causing problems<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Violent\u00a0crime<\/a>\u00a0reached a 14-year high in\u00a0Seattle<\/a>\u00a0last year as the city\u2019s\u00a0police department<\/a>\u00a0deals with a staffing shortage that is straining its ability to protect the community.<\/p>\n

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said during his state of the city address this week that there is funding to hire 125 new officers this year and put more resources on the street.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe depleted\u00a0staffing\u00a0we see today does not allow us to react to emergencies and crime with the response times our residents deserve,\u201d\u00a0Harrell said<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not allow us to staff the specialty teams we need for issues like domestic violence or DUI or financial crimes targeting the elderly,\u201d he said. \u201cIt does not allow us to conduct the thorough investigations we expect to make sustainable change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty officers left the force in January, 171 officers exited last year, and 186 officers separated from the force in 2020 amid the push to defund the police, according to\u00a0KOMO<\/a>. Only 137 officers have been hired in that time span.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Seattle treated officers like crap, demonized them, and then are absolutely and completely shocked that they can\u2019t hire officers.<\/p>\n

Yep. The whole thing is an absolute mystery. Not a soul could have seen this one coming, now could they?<\/p>\n

I mean, other than every person with a functional brain, that is.<\/p>\n

Look, cops are people. Not only does that mean some will be good and some will be bad, it also means they want to be appreciated for what they do and know they\u2019re supported by their leadership.<\/p>\n

Additionally, when you\u2019ve demonized them in the press, you can\u2019t really expect applicants to flock to fill the void. It\u2019s just not going to work that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, the media and the city have been treating police like crap. I just can\u2019t wait to get me some of that!\u201d said no one ever.<\/p>\n

This is of Seattle\u2019s own making, much like what\u2019s going on\u00a0in San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0right now. You can\u2019t demonize the police then be surprised when things don\u2019t go well in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

I get that they shouldn\u2019t be lionized and shielded from liability for their mistakes, but there\u2019s a middle ground that most people can understand and respect between those two extremes. Most people\u00a0want<\/em>\u00a0that middle ground, even.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, public officials are too short-sighted to see that appeasing a mob one day might come back to bite them in the backside in the not-so-distant future.<\/p>\n

So, here we are. Seattle can\u2019t get enough police officers and seems genuinely confused as to why. Frankly, were it not for good people who are going to get hurt, I\u2019d just sit here and laugh at them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle PD having trouble hiring new officers Politicians often can\u2019t really afford to be far-sighted. Their constituents want immediate results, not the promise of better days down the road. Yet officials can be far too short-sighted for their own good. Seattle, for example, was another of a handful of cities that\u00a0cut funding to their police … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-law-order","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77852,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77851\/revisions\/77852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}