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The cuts also fall well short of the 50% demanded by protesters following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The rebalanced budget reduces executive pay and eliminates 100 police officers.
In Portland, this year's police budget is nearly $10 million less than last year's, but that was far less than the $50 million cut activists had sought. It represents less than 4% of the police ...
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her resignation on Tuesday, one day after the Seattle City Council cut the police department's budget, as part of reform efforts following mass protests ...
"Defund the police", a phrase popularized by Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd protests. In the United States, "defund the police" is a slogan advocating for reallocating funds from police departments to non-policing forms of public safety and community support initiatives, such as social services, youth programs, housing, education, healthcare, and other community resources.
Between 1982 and 1983, a group of eight police officers, firefighters and regular civilians set between 163 and 260 fires in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and nine surrounding towns and cities to protest Proposition 2½, hoping to revert the budget cuts that led to hundreds of police officers and firefighters being laid off. Proposition 2½ ...
Tucson Police suffered a great amount of major budget cuts due to cuts from the City of Tucson, State of Arizona, and federal funding. Most police officers were not laid off because they were allowed to leave through attrition. Attrition levels increased as officers experienced cuts to pensions, salaries, and increased work without extra pay.
Seattle police chief announces her retirement after the City Council voted to cut millions from the police department’s budget. Chief Carmen Best of the Seattle Police Department has announced ...
Northampton, Massachusetts, cut 10 percent from the police budget. Burlington, however, decided to slash almost 30 percent of its police force by attrition. Since then, city leaders have been ...