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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5232936" data-attributes="member: 12952"><h2>Stretched Seattle police are NOT investigating sex crimes amid staffing crisis: Woke city council voted to defund the &#039;devastated and demoralized&#039; department for two years in a row</h2>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Seattle&#039;s city council voted in the fall of 2020 and 2021 to defund the police, and since then the force has remained chronically understaffed</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The new mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, was elected to improve the situation in the city and described the police force as &#039;devastated and demoralized&#039;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Harrell has prioritized tackling the city&#039;s homeless problem - one of the worst in the nation - but the move has taken resources from other areas</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The unit that investigates sexual assault has been reduced to four officers, since before Harrell took over, and is now struggling with the workload</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">In March the Seattle police detectives were not assigned a single adult sexual assault case, documents given to KUOW show</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">This year so far, only 1.6 percent of cases investigated by the sexual assault and child abuse unit have resulted in an arrest, down from 14 percent in 2019</li>
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[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5232936, member: 12952"] [HEADING=1]Stretched Seattle police are NOT investigating sex crimes amid staffing crisis: Woke city council voted to defund the 'devastated and demoralized' department for two years in a row[/HEADING] [LIST] [*][B]Seattle's city council voted in the fall of 2020 and 2021 to defund the police, and since then the force has remained chronically understaffed[/B] [*][B]The new mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, was elected to improve the situation in the city and described the police force as 'devastated and demoralized'[/B] [*][B]Harrell has prioritized tackling the city's homeless problem - one of the worst in the nation - but the move has taken resources from other areas[/B] [*][B]The unit that investigates sexual assault has been reduced to four officers, since before Harrell took over, and is now struggling with the workload[/B] [*][B]In March the Seattle police detectives were not assigned a single adult sexual assault case, documents given to KUOW show[/B] [*][B]This year so far, only 1.6 percent of cases investigated by the sexual assault and child abuse unit have resulted in an arrest, down from 14 percent in 2019[/B] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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