Seattle radio host Jason Rantz provides analysis on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Moving full speed ahead:
Brian
Brian thanks, Jillian
get
this Seattle mayor, Jenny Durkan
is planning to sign a city
budget next year that cuts
police funding by eighteen percent.
This comes as the city marks. Fifteen
homicides this year,
the highest number in over a
decade.
How about that surprising
combination
and local businesses are still
plagued by vandalism. The few
that are open.
What impacted will this budget
cut have on the city and law
enforcement?
Lets pretend to be curious and
go to Jason, Rantz
Jason. This is like seeing a
raging fire and pouring gasoline
on it.
How could they possibly
rationalize cutting the police
budget?
They rationalize it because
in Seattle, the counsel and
mayors office, driven by
so radical activists in the
community
right now they have the ear of
the black lives matter, movement
and various Antifa organizations
or Antifa activists who have
been rioting or excuse me
peacefully, protesting for the
last several months,
so they have been putting on the
pressure
they have been leaning on this
counsel.
They got the council to agree to
fifty percent glass, half full. They didnt
get to the full fifty
they are committed to fifty percent long
term. They cut eighteen right now,
Brian Jason im not sure I
have to tell you that they
wanted fifty percent cut
and they plan on cutting funding
for police training,
the exact opposite from George
Floyd. They wanted to modernize
police training,
maybe extend it,
got rid of overtime and
eliminated dozen of positions of
people who just walked off the
job
in the last week, or so we hear
from Jim Clyburn Democrat
defunding. The police is one of
the stupidest things they could
have possibly have said
Barack Obama yesterday defunding
the police, terrible idea-
I paraphrase both,
but the sentiment is clear:
how can they continue to
rationalize this
when you look nationally
versus the politically northwest,
politically speaking,
very very different beast?
We are not traditionally
Democrats here,
flight, this council and this
mayor pretty progressive
and socialist.
We have open socialist on the
Seattle City Council.
They are not necessarily
thinking about it from a
democratic perspective,
nor do they care about the
republican perspective.
They care only about play indicating the activist
indicating the activist
community, because the
debating how much mover more
eighteen percent,
then they got to eighteen percent
as they were debating it. Two
people were stabbed in Seattle.
Just near blocks away from city
Hall,
one person was stabbed to death.
Another personal was stabbed at
random, just walking in downtown
Seattle.
That person, thankfully, is
going to be okay. It
really does shine a spot line on
what happens on when you defund
the police.
This shouldnt be shocking to
anybody.
We have the lowest number of
deployable staff of SPD since
one thousand nine hundred and ninety,
and at the exact same time we
are seeing record homicides
record arson
record burglaries
again, any child could figure
out exactly whats going to
happen next year. Once we see
more of these cuts,
Brian here somewhat mayor, said:
Jennyjennyjenny Durkan laying GR
a plan seeks to ensure the
Seattle Police Department has
enough officer to meet nine hundred and eleven
response and investigate needs
throughout the city. While
acknowledging the need for
disporportionate communities on
color, particularly black
communities,
good luck as those two people
bleed out and homicides continue
to rise.
We dont know if they are
Democrats or Republicans, but I
always thought safety. Didnt
have any party or wasnt
partisanship
Jason thanks. So much.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-02.