
Harrell tries to avoid political controversies as a wave to stave off Radical Left challengers for when he announces he’s running for re-election.


He’d rather further sacrifice his relationship with the police than face criticisms from LGBT activists. It would be shocking it Harrell spoke out given his political cowardice. The separations continue this year. As of May 31, SPD only hired 37 this year, while losing 44 officers. Police are fantastic human beings especially SPOG members.”įrom 2021: Seattle Pride to make decision on police presence ‘from a community perspective’ All we ask as SPOG members is some reasonable messaging of support from our elected officials and people in positions of power/influence. “The bigoted decisions banning uniformed officers from Pride events do not aid in stopping this mass exodus of cops. “To date, close to 600 police officers have left our agency,” Solan said in a statement. And two council members up for re-election, Andrew Lewis and Dan Strauss, have repeatedly voted for policies to cut police staffing.
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Council member Lisa Herbold, meanwhile, attempted to fire white officers from the force because of their skin color. Council member Teresa Mosqueda, who is currently running for a vacant King County Council seat, defended a man who threatened to murder cops, arguing his poisonous rhetoric was justified.

The biggest reason officers say they leave is due to a lack of respect from city officials, which at one point pledged to defund the department by 50%. The Seattle Police Department has lost nearly 600 officers since BLM activism took over Seattle in 2020.
