In what he’s calling yet another unprovoked and unreasonable $15 million attack on local public safety, Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan said he is appalled that the city’s annual budget has once again re-un-defunded its police department.
“It wasn’t enough that this poor department has already had to survive through not being defunded once,” said Solan. “So here we are again getting saddled with the opposite of police defunding again, with only enough money to recruit 120 new officers with $4 million in hiring bonuses. How are we supposed to keep complaining about how we can’t do our jobs well and play #1 victim in all scenarios when we keep getting re-un-defunded by city council libtards like this?”
Seattle City Councilmembers Alex Pedersen and Sara Nelson said they voted against the city budget because it didn’t go far enough in never-not-yet-ever defunding the police department.
“After years now of the city’s police budget not being defunded, the need to re-un-defund the police department is greater than ever,” said Nelson in a newsletter to here constituents. “Every time the word ‘defunded’ is uttered, no matter the context, the police department needs at least $1 million to recover. And that extra $15 million in next year’s budget barely covers how many times the word was said in that public comment period about how toothless Seattle’s Office of Police Accountability is.”
Solan said that while this recent un-defunding scare is more dire than he’d like, he is particularly hopeful that recent local serial killer rumors will not die out soon, as that kind of fear “is basically a blank check.”
