It's a difficult task to fix a broken culture like in law enforcement and we're seeing the realization that just cutting funding isn't going to magically fix everything.

It's a simple hypothesis to say that after the CHAZ suddenly everyone hated police, but in reality the tone among young people in Seattle was already becoming heavily anti-cop for years if you were part of the conversations going on. It's possible it just became more acceptable to express those feelings towards police directly and less acceptable to be positive towards them, especially with the stress of the pandemic destroying people's filters. Enforcement of certain laws like traffic violations or drug use was also already on the way out well before the pandemic started. Electing a pro-cop candidate like Harrell may be an indication of a swing in the other direction.

"The Fall of Seattle"

Sheer yellow journalism and Sinclair-style chicken-littleism.

"Businesses on both sides of Third Avenue, a major thoroughfare, are boarded up."

Direct result of Covid. Nothing whatsoever to do with the SPD.

"After George Floyd died, the city turned on the police"

SPD has been breeding ill-will at least since the 1999 WTO protests. Maybe it started with the Darth Vader outfits.

I know of at least two LEO's who took early retirement from larger cities because of the ACAB attitudes. I have one guy who joined our local small town police force because it's what he loves doing. A bit crazy to read this story and see how bad things have gotten in a larger city with an anti law enforcement stance. Regan style militarized police forces may be a problem. But the attack on the front line people seems akin to attacking a fast food worker because their company supports deforestation. The ones that should be gone after are the filthy politicians but if you recall the whole occupy wall street movement it's interesting how quickly all establishment forces pushed the focus away from extreme wealth inequality and corruption in business to literally anything else.

Seattle is unlikely to actually do anything about this. This ideology is paralyzing, and none of its adherents are able to question it or adjust anything based on the outcomes - however negative they may be.

Website looks like a poorly designed propaganda machine.