{"id":1423359,"date":"2022-04-07T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423359"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:00:59","slug":"crime-soars-in-seattle-after-city-council-cuts-police-funding-30-years-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crime-soars-in-seattle-after-city-council-cuts-police-funding-30-years-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Soars in Seattle After City Council Cuts Police Funding: &#039;30 Years&#039; Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fcrime-soars-in-seattle-after-city-council-cuts-police-funding-30-years-backwards%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=1423359&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 class=\"subheading\">Crime is soaring in Seattle, Washington, in the wake of the city council\u2019s decision to \u201cdefund the police\u201d partially in the wake of the George Floyd riots, Black Lives Matter protests, and \u201cCapitol Hill Occupied Protest\u201d (CHOP) of the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Last quarter, the city recorded 13 homicides, the most in six years. Seattle is on a pace to surpass last year\u2019s crime numbers \u2014 which were worse than the year before, the <em>Seattle Times<\/em> reported: \u00a0\u201cLast year, <a class=\"content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/gun-violence-in-king-county-in-2021-surpassed-2020s-record-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">88 people were fatally shot and 372 were wounded by gunfire<\/a> in King County, surpassing 2020\u2019s record high of 69 firearm-related homicides and 268 shooting injuries that were largely attributed to the stressors of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Columnist Danny Westneat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/seattle-continues-to-go-backward-on-crime-as-much-as-30-years-back\/\">wrote<\/a> Wednesday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had over a 95% increase in more shots fired, with a 171% increase in people being shot compared to last year,\u201d Police Chief Adrian Diaz told our numb City Council recently. \u201cAnd last year was one of the highest years we\u2019ve had on record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Aggravated assaults \u2014 which last year were already up 24% \u2014 are up another 33% in the first quarter of 2022, as compared to the first three months of 2021. That\u2019s according to preliminary reports posted at the city\u2019s open records portal.<\/p>\n<p>Robberies are up 30% in 2022. Overall, violent crime is up 32% \u2014 from 1,051 incidents in the first three months of 2021 to 1,387 this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Westneat noted that Seattle\u00a0had gone 30 years backwards in terms of crime, nearing a per capita crime rate last seen in 1995. It has also lost 375 police officers, putting the city\u2019s police force at levels last seen in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters occupied six blocks of the city after local leaders told then-Police Chief Carmen Best to stand down and abandon the Eastern Precinct. The protesters called their utopian, crime-filled community the CHOP or the \u201cCapitol Hill Autonomous Zone\u201d (CHAZ). It lasted for weeks before being cleared by authorities, following threats by then-President Donald Trump to intervene.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13746862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/06\/chaz-chop-seattle-wa-file-flickr.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2020\/07\/10\/seattle-city-council-backs-call-to-defund-the-police-by-50\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0at the time, Seattle\u2019s city council voted to \u201cdefund the police\u201d by 50% in 2020, overriding then-Mayor Jenny Durkan\u2019s veto, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/law-and-order\/2020\/09\/24\/seattle-city-council-overrides-mayors-veto-begins-to-defund-the-police\/\">starting<\/a> with a \u201cdown payment of 100 officers being cut from the force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Best, whose salary was to be cut, promptly retired.<\/p>\n<p>Public outrage has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/one-year-after-chaz-republican-ann-davison-wins-seattle-city-attorney\/\">grown<\/a> so bad in the left-wing city that a Republican, Ann Davison, was elected city attorney last November.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime is soaring in Seattle, Washington, in the wake of the city council\u2019s decision to \u201cdefund the police\u201d partially in the wake of the George Floyd riots, Black Lives Matter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}