Seattle's police chief says she will retire as the City Council approves a plan for the department to lose as many as 100 officers.
The City Council also cut Best’s roughly $285,000 annual salary and the pay of other top police leaders, although the final cuts to Best’s salary were significantly more modest than those approved last week. The council plan also takes officers off of a team that removes homeless camps.
“While we can’t do everything in this summer re-balancing package, we have set the path forward for tremendous work in front of us as a council and as a city,” Council Member Teresa Mosqueda said., saying the issue could be taken up in earnest when the 2021 city budget is considered. They also said any layoffs would disproportionately target newer officers, often hired from Black and Latino communities, and would inevitably lead to lawsuits.
Durkan has proposed cutting about $20 million from the police budget this year largely because of reduced revenues amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, the mayor sketched out a plan to reduce the police budget by about $75 million next year by transferring parking enforcement officers, the 911 call center and other areas out of the department.
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