A list of puns related to "2021 Seattle City Council election"
>To offset the impact of the revenue decline, Mosqueda focused on cutting the police budget to preserve the councilβs priorities of addressing affordable housing, homelessness and criminal justice reform.
>Durkan criticized Mosquedaβs proposal, blaming recent staffing problems in SPD on the council. She said the proposal failed to prioritize public safety.Β
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>βCityβs Councilβs previous promise to defund SPD by 50%, their treatment of Chief (Carmen) Best and their previous layoff budget led to an exodus of 325 officers from SPD in the last two years,β Durkan said. βMultiple plans to address hiring and retention proposed by Chief (Adrian) Diaz and I have been repeatedly rejected by a majority of council.β
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>βAnd just yesterday, another council member proposed blocking my emergency hiring proposal that has already generated a tenfold increase in applications to 911 dispatch positions in Seattle,β she said. βContinued cuts to SPD and underfunding the 911 center are not a plan for true public safety.β
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