Seattle's first Black police chief announced she is stepping down Monday after the police budget was cut by less than $4 million.
“I regret deeply that she concluded that the best way to serve the city and help the department was a change in leadership, in the hope that would change the dynamics to move forward with the City Council,” Durkan wrote.
The measures would cut less than $4 million of the department’s more than $400 million annual budget this year and reduce the department's 1,400 police force by 100 through layoffs and attrition. Best’s roughly $285,000 annual salary and the pay of other top police leaders also will be cut, and officers will be taken off a team that removes homeless camps.
The reductions fell far short of the 50% cut to the department that many Black Lives Matter protesters have demanded. Council member Kshama Sawant was the only one to vote against the budget package, saying it does not do enough to defund the police.“A budget that does not meet basic social needs and that continues to throw money at a racist, violent institution is a failed budget."
Several council members said Monday that the changes were a starting point in a long process to reimagine policing and public safety. Best's announcement and the cuts to the department come after thousands of demonstrators marched in Seattle's streets after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Protests have criticized the department's use of tear gas and other less-than-lethal crowd control methods and recently marched
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