{"id":1021091,"date":"2021-11-16T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021091"},"modified":"2021-11-16T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T01:44:20","slug":"washington-state-republican-proposes-refund-police-initiative-to-combat-seattles-defund-police-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-republican-proposes-refund-police-initiative-to-combat-seattles-defund-police-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Republican Proposes \u2018Refund Police\u2019 Initiative To Combat Seattle\u2019s \u2018Defund Police\u2019 Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-state-republican-proposes-refund-police-initiative-to-combat-seattles-defund-police-movement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021091&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Republican member of the King County Council in Washington state is attempting to counter Seattle\u2019s \u201cdefund the police\u201d efforts with a \u201cRefund Police\u201d initiative of his own, arguing that taxpayers in the suburbs have been on the hook for the city\u2019s failed policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a long time, the suburban taxpayers have been on the hook for Seattle\u2019s failed policies,\u201d King County Council Vice Chairman Reagan Dunn told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/seattle-suburban-taxpayers-police-refund-suburban-taxpayers-republican-king-county-sheriff\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cIf the city of Seattle, being a large one, won\u2019t take its responsibility to protect the public seriously, we have to step in. My \u2018Refund the Police\u2019 initiative will build back a huge number of law enforcement personnel, as well as some specialized units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunn\u2019s plan would allocate $14.4 million of the county\u2019s supplemental budget to address a \u201cfunding deficit\u201d in the King County Sheriff\u2019s office, which would allow it to maintain its law enforcement abilities in unincorporated areas. In addition, the plan would include $830,000 to fund four new deputies and a staff member on a hate and bias unit. Dunn, one of two Republicans on the council, anticipates a difficult negotiation. Still, he expressed optimism that the inclusion of the hate and bias unit would force the hand of his Democratic colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are tough issues for folks to vote against now, and I\u2019m putting them in a tough spot very deliberately. Are you going to vote against a hate crimes [unit], for example? That\u2019s a tough vote for a Democrat to take,\u201d Dunn told Fox News. \u201cSo they\u2019re going to have to come around to good criminal justice policy, which is what works. It\u2019s all been studied research. We know law enforcement on the ground doing community policing is what works. And we\u2019ve got to get back to basics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunn won a fifth term on the council earlier this month, riding a wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/defund-the-police-is-over\">backlash<\/a> against the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement, where voters in major cities like Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York struck down candidates and initiatives that would have stripped funding for police departments and elected pro-police candidates, including Republican Seattle City Attorney-Elect Ann Davison.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Seattle, however, proposed to slash its police budget by almost $11 million this year, according to Fox News. The move, which comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-than-200-seattle-police-officers-quit-citing-anti-police-climate\">more than 200<\/a> Seattle police officers resigned in 2020, and after news reports broke over the weekend about a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/seattle-boy-watches-father-die-because-help-comes-too-late-critics-blame-mayors-vaccine-mandate\">died of cardiac arrest<\/a> while waiting for police to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican member of the King County Council in Washington state is attempting to counter Seattle\u2019s \u201cdefund the police\u201d efforts with a \u201cRefund Police\u201d initiative of his own, arguing that taxpayers in the suburbs have been on the hook for the city\u2019s failed policies.\u201cFor a long time, the suburban taxpayers have been on the hook for Seattle\u2019s failed policies,\u201d King County Council Vice Chairman Reagan Dunn told Fox News. \u201cIf the city of Seattle, being a large one, won\u2019t take its responsibility to protect the public seriously, we have to step in. My \u2018Refund the Police\u2019 initiative will build back a huge number of law enforcement personnel, as well as some specialized units.\u201dDunn\u2019s plan would allocate $14.4 million of the county\u2019s supplemental budget to address a \u201cfunding deficit\u201d in the King County Sheriff\u2019s office, which would allow it to maintain its law enforcement abilities in unincorporated areas. In addition, the plan would include $830,000 to fund four new deputies and a staff member on a hate and bias unit. Dunn, one of two Republicans on the council, anticipates a difficult negotiation. Still, he expressed optimism that the inclusion of the hate and bias unit would force the hand of his Democratic colleagues.\u201cThese are tough issues for folks to vote against now, and I\u2019m putting them in a tough spot very deliberately. Are you going to vote against a hate crimes [unit], for example? That\u2019s a tough vote for a Democrat to take,\u201d Dunn told Fox News. \u201cSo they\u2019re going to have to come around to good criminal justice policy, which is what works. It\u2019s all been studied research. We know law enforcement on the ground doing community policing is what works. And we\u2019ve got to get back to basics.\u201dDunn won a fifth term on the council earlier this month, riding a wave of backlash against the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement, where voters in major cities like Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York struck down candidates and initiatives that would have stripped funding for police departments and elected pro-police candidates, including Republican Seattle City Attorney-Elect Ann Davison.The city of Seattle, however, proposed to slash its police budget by almost $11 million this year, according to Fox News. The move, which comes after more than 200 Seattle police officers resigned in 2020, and after news reports broke over the weekend about a man who died of cardiac arrest while waiting for police to arrive at his apartment because of a staff shortage, drew sharp criticism from Mayor Jenny Durkan.\u201cThe winning ideas, the right policies, the voters get it,\u201d Dunn said. \u201cAnd for the first time in nearly a century, the city of Seattle elected a Republican to be its city attorney. It sends a message, particularly to the \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 crowd, the woke left that, \u2018Hey, your policies are failing. They\u2019re not getting votes.\u2019 In fact, any candidate who touches that is going to lose the next election. And so these are very tough votes now for my colleagues today because they know they\u2019re going to be challenged by moderates who have had enough of the way that Seattle is trying to run our community.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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