sidereal on Nostr: People say "protest culture doesn't work" and "the 2020 Uprising didn't accomplish ...
People say "protest culture doesn't work" and "the 2020 Uprising didn't accomplish anything" but in 2019 there were over 1100 officers on Seattle's police force. Right now there are a little over 600.
The police were never defunded, but a /lot/ of them just quit.
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