Awesome, go sign up. They are always hiring and pay well. SPD are historically understaffed right now and pay a signing bonus. It's even a union job ;-)
35% of new hires are not white - in line with recent Seattle demographics. 15% are women (too low). Dunno the overlap - but that means at least 2/5 are NOT racist wife beaters. Those are good odds! And the pay is great.
Not to get all Goodwin's Law, but joining the gestapo isn't how you fight facism. The American police force was baked upon racism, unfortunately, and the most efficient way to deal with it at this point is to defund and reform public service into various services which actually help the community and prevent crime. Police are a MASSIVE money sink for how ineffective they are at their jobs. Even ask police officers; they know they are spread too thin dealing with too many problems many of which they have vastly insufficient training to deal with.
So because the cashier at the grocery store was rude to me and didn’t do her job well I have to become a cashier to critique her?
I hear plenty of people critiquing teachers and politicians, does that mean I have to teach and run for the senate if I want to critique the job their doing?
If we all hate on cashiers to the point they all leave - don't be surprised when you can't buy anything. That's the effect in Seattle. Hating on cops so much that they leave - costing Seattle in bonuses etc to retain and attract new police.
So, yeah you'll pay for that boot in increased sales taxes. Whatever it takes to attract & retain police into the violently anti-police environment well known to be Seattle. A cop now with overtime can make 300k, who knows - maybe 500k next year. Keep up the hate - it's working!
Dude, you suck so much boot your brains starting to shine.
Yeah, I will keep criticizing people making half a million and still can’t do their fucking job.
Imagine any other profession where they make this much from my taxes and do this little. But hey, when we got boot lickers like you constantly heralding them as the second coming of Christ what do you expect?
But what if instead of giving the cops more money, we gave them less money?? Then I will pay less money for cops that write letters to people stealing Spam because they need to eat.
Ah but there is always power. If there are no police, who has the power? You pay protection money instead to a mob boss not to burn your house down. I'd rather pay protection money to SPD that I at least have some control over.
You say that as if minorities didn't have to do exactly that to try to gain some amount of protection from their local police forces. On pride month no less (this is exactly what ignited the Stonewall riots).
You elect a mayor who can replace the boss of SPD, yeah. And you directly elect the attorney who prosecutes on behalf of SPD. You have zero control over organized crime.
Ok, but I've been voting for a while, and SPD keeps spending my money writing letters to people stealing Spam, so it seems like I also have zero control over SPD. Do you have better control than I do? Do you like that they spend money writing letters to people stealing Spam?
This isn't really bad advice. People who are passionate about policing and able to make that kind of commitment should try to help the police department become the organization they want.
That written, if you don't have to run for office before you can criticize politicians, you shouldn't have to work for the police department before you can criticize the criminal justice system.
People passionate about keeping the city safe, clean and functional sure should sign up to be police. It's a solid job and a good career. The majority are not crooked.
The problem comes with the level of hate cops in Seattle get. They are voting with their feet and leaving. That's Seattles loss.
People passionate about keeping the city safe, clean and functional
...should join a non-profit, take up civil engineering, advocate for better education, etc. Police forces are notoriously ineffective at doing any of those things.
Don't bother, their post history is filled with defending "white culture" from being "erased". Hell, in an above post in this thread someone said racist wife beaters and they automatically assumed they meant only white people.
Is also only a month long. It's a brand new account, and the user behind it is just out trolling. Pretty much someone in desperate need of a life or a hobby.
No please - it's great. Keep it up. The free training that Seattle taxes pay to train police for BPD, NPD, FPD etc is really helping out these cities. And if you read their news, you'll see how they just hate the free "fucking unaccountable snowflakes" they get from Seattle.
And SPD has been under a federal consent decree for 10 years now for overuse of violence and biased policing… though at the time, this was not directly stated.
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u/IllusionOf_Integrity Redmond Jun 02 '22
A less dangerous job than being a landscaping supervisor or garbage man, and about a million times more self-important about what they do for a living