Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, the city's first Black police head, announced her resignation a day after the city council approved a reduction in police department's budget
SEATTLE - Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigned on Tuesday, a day after the city council cut her department’s budget as part of a reform movement following mass protests against racial bias and violence in policing.
In Seattle as elsewhere, much of the anger evolved into demands by some civil activists to “defund,” or radically scale back, police departments in favor of greater spending on social services. The Seattle City Council on Monday voted 7-1 to reduce the police department’s budget by $3.5 million, less than 1%, for the remainder of the year while investing $17 million in community safety programs.
Sharpening his law-and-order message ahead of the Nov. 3 national elections, President Donald Trump has cast the defunding movement as a reckless goal of his political adversaries. FILE PHOTO: Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best holds a news conference inside the CHOP area in front of the Seattle Police Department - East Precinct, hours after a fatal shooting as people occupy space in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. June 29, 2020. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo
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