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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @10:31PM (#32504551)
You mean the thing we did not do?
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by dymk on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:11PM (#32504820)
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-budget-shrink...
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by powerhour on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:24PM (#32504912)
Did you read the article? It doesn't sound like the police were defunded, they weren't even using the budget they had:

> The budget includes funds for 1357 officers and SPD says right now, there are 1,120 officers on the force—which leaves 237 open jobs.

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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by dymk on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:32PM (#32504951)
> The Seattle Police Department’s budget shrunk after a final vote from the City Council.

> In 2021 budget was $363 million and in 2020 is was $401.8 million.

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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by powerhour on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:49PM (#32505042)
And they weren't spending the budget as intended (hence the vast number of open positions) and they still have tons of room to hire with the 2021 budget, so what was actually lost?
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by dymk on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:05AM (#32505131)
About $38 million was lost
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by s5300 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @10:35PM (#32504575)
When did the police get defunded? Pretty sure current admin only gave them oodles more funding.
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