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Seattle to cut police funding as homicides spike

2020-12-02 | 🔗
Seattle radio host Jason Rantz provides analysis on ‘Fox & Friends.’
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.