Breaking: We're diving into the City of Seattle's budget in our policing series' second blog post, "Follow the Money".
We'll be looking at why city budgets matter to policing issues.
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More money is allocated to policing than to the bottom 25 departments in the City budget combined. Of the money allocated for both police accountability and for police, a meager 2% is dedicated to the three civilian accountability entities. The remaining 98% is for the police.pic.twitter.com/qNILdG7ejx
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The data is speaking loud and clear: after essential infrastructure, Seattle prioritizes policing above all else.
Read the full post here: https://www.aclu-wa.org/story/follow-the-money-policing-series …pic.twitter.com/HMa7DbtFZx
