That's cool so me and my friends can go up there and do drugs and not have to worry about being harassed? (I said do drugs not sell them) lol

hows the Situation now?

@@nickf527 do drugs in ur house, if u want to be left alone lol

@@jeffelmore5614 yeah im getting sick of being assaulted by junkies for walking off of my property and minding my own business it happens almost every time i leave my property on foot now, I dont walk my dogs anymore, or go to public parks, places like that, but hey they defunded the police over 50 percent in my town, I saw this coming. I spend the majority of my time at home now watching junkies from afar deface property in my community and hearing about all my local stores repeatedly getting robbed broke into vandalized ect. but im sure this was a better alternative to having a well funded police department. idk about everyone else but having an overfunded police force sounds like a good think to me but fml. my favorite part is the sob story homeless person literally every five feet everywhere making every excuse they can come up with for not working with their hands out and a meth pipe in their pocket, literally every business in my town is hiring and struggling to keep their businesses going because they are underemployed and over half the town is trying to live off of free handouts, can somebody please explain to me how we got here? I was homeless for five years myself after the housing bubble blew it was rough times so I understand the struggle, but whats going on right now is flat ridiculous.

@@nickf527 if you want to be a loser then sure

the 20% cut is supposed to be redirected into social programs, mental health resources etc. Supposed to is the key word

Thanks for saving my time.

Thats because its Vice and they won't say the truth because the truth goes against their agenda.

That's vice for you

Refund and rebudget is better and realistic

True that

True

They're not trying to get their hq burned down, lol

Vice in a nutshell.

Yup

You must be pretty old.

@@flymax7377 GOT EM........still a good point tho

You mean before your brain started solidifying

Credible? Follow the money pal. Might as well be Pravda. Maybe when it was just a magazine, but there's no way you go back that far.

WHAT!? YOU DONT SUPPORT BLM!?!?! HOW DARE YOU! Get rid of the police and let the murderers go WOOOOOO!!!!!

Mo-rons.

@@WitchyWagonRealbruh, the country is barely 245 years old.

@@mehmeh1999 European colonizers have been perpetrating racial persecution- racism- since before the Atlantic Slave trade. You realize before America was "created," it was a nation entirely decimated with grasps of re-creating it by colonizers?

@@hunnerrichau6799 Ok, first of off the U.S didn't stay a slave state for long and the northern side of the country got rid of slavery as soon as the country was created. The stubborn people of the south kept it going.

@@hunnerrichau6799 Also may I point out that it was african warlords that sold the Europeans slaves.

Not sure about “defunding” the police but not allowing them to have military equipment would be a great start.

@@auditoneusa747 no

@@auditoneusa747 the military uses glocks so should we get rid of glocks

Once the cops are gone the only thing left to do is deploy the army. The rules are very different when dealing with the army.

@@auditoneusa747 Ending their *Immunity* helps too...

Sell out!

@@milkncookie Jewish puppet

@@milkncookie Man, , please. People who support that notion aren't living in reality.

thats and these idiots want it for. they're so stupid that they keep getting caught and then fight back. no sympathy for any of them.

It's not ACTUALLY supposed to be about defunding the police. The actual idea behind 'defund the police' wasn't just to yank cops out of America, it was SUPPOSED to be taking funds away from police and starting additional specialized services so that police aren't responding to (for example) mental health issues, where police will end up shooting a naked dude having a mental breakdown. What is happening in Seattle is not what defunding the police meant. You can't just do it instantly, it's the kind of thing that needs time. It suffers from a very unfortunate name and I would rather it just be called "Strategically reallocating taxpayer resources for efficiency and specialty".

And that girl at the picnic table that supports defunding them made 0 real argue, just said we deserve what you owe us.... people like that disgust me, we need to fix things

Yeah the “republican rat fucker” really gave away his bias

Of course, she is paid for participating in her "Social Group" Nothing comes for fee - other than the idiot and addicts that are being manipulated into the riots.

Being "level headed" has no bearing on being correct.

@@queenrayne1338 that depends on what your definition of correct means.

fine by me

You mean an opinion piece? Yeah most times they project their bias, I'm a moderate and it's easy to notice

what do you expect from vice?

Lol journalism is dead. No honest reporters out here

How is it a statement vs actual reporting?

Not if the debt is valid.

@@sweetsucculentcontentnectar People who want compensation for something that didn't happen to them from persons who weren't even allive at the time it happend ... I get the anger, the proposed solution is a white person tax or something?

@@jeffreygroen9191 no it would be a general tax applied to all non black Americans. Cope, whites will soon be the minority

@@steelier6107 So a skin colour tax will be the end to the problem of sestemic racism? Isis had a similar tax for non-muslims, you paid or you died... I don't think they will be raising Isis statues anytime soon.

@@steelier6107 LMAO That is so racist. Try switching the "black" part to "white" and see how problematic your comment is. News Flash: Racism applies to all races, not just blacks. The more you know. (: It's such an irony that most of the time the people screeching about racism are the most racist people of the bunch.

Exactly like you would be more scared of other things right? How is that what pops into your head?

Does it though?

The world deserves better than the selfishness of Murica.

It doesn’t deserve better, it needs to wake up and stop repeating itself, the race war is old America!, 100years old and still haven’t move forward, it’s actually making America look stupid. Especially when your killing your own children

Hey George you owned slaves so stfu -people in 2020

Actually, no it doesn't. Trump & the Fake Opposition Dems are exactly what we deserve.

@David Esguerra God damn it

I was watching and had about 5 follow up questions he either failed to ask from lack of reporting skills or purposefully

@@joelatkinson2037 she said "there's a lack of funding in support of black and brown citizens". His obvious follow up should have been "how would additional funding have been spent for that support?"

A socialist agenda

Texas is next

@@TaykoGhoul true

@@TaykoGhoul next?Next is now

Heartbreaking? nah, the people there are very hardcore leftists for a long time. They had it coming. I.e. they're getting what they fucking deserve.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one! That statement was incredibly biased and aggressive - the look on her face said it all.

I would expect a 14yr old girl to say that, but a "man" in his late 40s should know better

That’s actually a really good, challenging question that inspired a thoughtful answer. Good journalism is always a little adversarial

and it was a white man asking it to a black woman, too. comical.

@@orihoola that was an accusatory question. He should has phrased it differently, Journalist should ask questions that aren’t going to sway the interviewees response.

It seems what they're really saying is that the police can't be trusted anyone else to cut their toys out of the budget before their personnel

Living in Seattle here. No it is defnatally not working.

@@StonerdMudbone Used to live in Seattle for most of my life. Sad what’s happened to it.

Let me kept in straight.You telling me to defund he police is make it better? Wow meanwhile Hongkong Police did not get any bloody defund by own local government.And WHERE IS LOGIC? LOGIC PEOPLE ? SEATTLE,WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

It never works out anywhere lol. Just like she said. Need reform. Change where they spend money.

Thank you for what you do.

Hope this city destroys itself

I love how they call to defund the police, yet if they get robbed, r*ped, or attacked by anyone they call right-wing extremists, who do they hide behind?

Oh don't dis encourage people from being a police officer and don't encourage them to quit we need good people in the police I know it's how you feel but by you saying this then we won't even have a world left.... I respect what you did and do if you're still in service but talking like that if everybody did what you were suggesting then why what would be left of our society.

I understand what you are saying. It is hard to feel sorry for people who did this to themselves. You get what you vote for. The people have the power to change it but they keep voting for the same moronic people. I would not risk my life for so little pay for people who did not want me there.

i thought the same at first , but tbh I dont think it was snide comments. I think its his job to ask those questions

Agreed, but was proud of some of the people going head on against him. He's trying to set them up and is biased in his wording, but these people made me proud that there are good, smart people in Seattle.

That's vice

Sounds more like how the commenters are reacting.

An interviewer is supposed to oppose the interviewee to get the response they need. Antagonist... and he's not a reporter! This is Vice tf is wrong with yall

i had to replay that snippet to make sure there wasn’t something in my ears 😂

He was playing devils advocate

@@melbell1470 that’s fair but it seemed a little aggressive. i’m not a journalist but i wouldn’t want to interview someone and come out like that, unless i work for fox or cnn because that’s what gets views.

@@raytrujillo7326 yeah, maybe. However when interviewers ask questions like that it gives the interviewee a chance to speak out against opposing view points. If they have a good response it strengthens whatever argument they’re trying to make.

@@melbell1470 true

This comment is highly underrated...thank you good sir

Yea it was unbelievable how ignorant she was. People who always see themselves as victims tend to be merely manipulators. Anyone can be a racist, and also, anyone can be a victim of racism, not just black people.

You have your politician saying "in Politics,when everyone is unhappy it's because you must have done something right" 😂

My Slavic neighbors are laughing they call themselves comrade like they know what communism is.. hahaha.. My neighbors are Ukrainians they told me one time these people are posers of Marxism one the real communist will put a Kalashnikov in their heads while they dig their own graves.. Me as a Japanese Kazakh I understand. My mother was a former Soviet soldier and translator in the 80's During the USSR and her father worked for KGB as an Professional Interrogator.

Yep BLM and antifa ruined the city. They ran police out of that area, then two black people were killed, one a teenager. Now police response times are much worse. The city is more unsafe. Property values around these areas are going down. All for what? What did Seattle P.D. do ? Oh right nothing.. smh

From Seattle too, hate to agree but can't ignore it either.

lots of crack and prostitutes. I love Seattle!

Blm has done nothing but made it worse

I'm a Seattle native who left in the early 2000s. I lived in the CD. They had just started calling my neighborhood the Caucasian District due to all the rich, white hipsters buying up the old homes for nothing and renovating them. Then Starbucks came in. It was a sign of things to come. Change isn't always good. Now this mess. I have no plans to go back. All these drug addicted homeless and the BLM nonsense destroying Capitol Hill. Most black folks were being displaced back then and moving down to Federal Way and the southern suburbs so how many still live in Seattle unless Amazon brought them up? It can't be very diverse there, not that it ever was. It is odd that Seattle became the epicenter of BLM. Wrong demographic. They should protest the displacement of the long-time black residents due to gentrification, but that was decades ago now and those kids protesting weren't even alive. Sad. I remember it all.

Lived in Belltown from 1995-2009. Saw this coming a long time ago.

i know it's late but how are all these social issues thrown to the police? It's insane. police are mainly enforcing laws, attending cases, investigate and solve crimes.

Vice news in 2020

@Tony Rubens or 2020: Defund the police 2022: reformed police, and more money for homelessness, affordable housing, mental health issues, substance abuse, and poverty.

​@Tony Rubens there is plenty of room for reform. Budget AUDITing (i.e. why are they buying military equipment with surpluses), training reform (yes, this may raise their budgets), civilian/expert review boards for misconduct (internal investigations are comically worthless), some sort of insurance paid by police/unions to pay out for misconduct similar to healthcare professionals (i.e. why are tax payers liable for "bad apples"). Additionally, "reform" is going to take decades to play out, which is why we cannot just pull out the rug from the police via broad "defunding".

"Journalism" is dead. Most are just propagandists for the Marxist Demorat Party.

@Tony Rubens the Seattle clowncil members who were running for election said just that. They "promised" to hire more police...until they got elected. This is the same clowncil that is currently trying to enact a law that would allow all misdemeanor crimes to be essentially legal, as long as the criminal says they are poor or drug addled or mentally ill. I kid you not. www.google.com/search?q=seattle+poverty+defense+komo&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS876US907&oq=seattle+povety&aqs=chrome.6.69i57j0i13i457j0i13l6.7280j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I think Stalin had that crocheted on a throw pillow for his bed.

That's called politics

EXACTLY, POLITICANS HATE AMERICA!!!! ALL OF THEM!!! THEY NEED TO BE HUNG AS TRAITORS TO THIS COUNTRY!!!

@@beautruex7012 start with the judges and the lawyers first ...

@@The_yeffy1 Churchill said it

Yes! It really got on my nerves!

Seattle government, and citizens react, and talk like they are in a bubble. Last city to approach problems that way was Detroit. All the smart and productive people are going to leave. Then you won't have a budget to cut, you will simply have no money. The absurd way west coast cities are run is a fast track to failure.

Yea first time I went to Seattle I saw a guy shooting up heroine

Typical liberal states....nothing new

It's now 2023. The problems have worsen with no solutions in sight. City council still is tone deaf.

Almost like they wanted to get their followers to side with them..

No kidding - "Where does all the anger come from?" It's no coincidence that it's an election year... That's just the beginning

Weird that VICE would be biased, right? 🙄

Journalism is dead.

I actually disagree. They were open ended questions. And I don't see where he was passive aggressive

@D. Engelbrecht Altruism. You think its altruistic to walk away from your job as a cop while crime rises

@@tokejoker1261 it’s cowardly

@@357-swagnumultramagax9 are you a Q-Anon follower?

@@edu_1710 lol no

Police officers down by 25%, crime up 80%. How hard is this to get??

You missed the point, go watch that part again

They are the reason that there has to be affordable housing. Just saying.

J P can you explain that to me?

What did you think this was venezuela ? Because go right the fucking ahead 🤣🤣🤣

HAhahhaha so true!

This stuff is hilarious. I live right by downtown, everything is fine. This is so specifically about downtown but it throws the perception of the state off.

@@KOOLEE88 When stores like Nordstrom and a bunch of others have had to close due to lawlessness, the city and state have a big problem.

@@krisa5896 and the lawlessness? I can go downtown with my kids right now, it's empty because of covid-19 guys, sheesh.

Yep enough said. Thanks BLM 👍🐑

Koolee is drinking the progressive kool-aid. When one if your family is robbed or killed, see if you still think that way.

Also, weird how he got called homophobic names and racial slurs by the very people that are fighting for racial equity and diverse inclusion. (says a gay man)

Oh no no no. The council members don't live near the crime and decay. That's for the little people.

I think she was right about needing to shift many of the responsibilities away from police. We expect officers to be the magic bullet if we don't know what yo do with a social issue, it's not fair we do that. So in that aspect it is possible once other avenues have been figured out to handle those things are established. The problem is they are not, and there is no clear indication that we have to many police either, in terms of taking care of public safety. Pulling funding was incredibly irresponsible in a situation that no clear transition could be made. Of course it made everything worse.

I guess they live in safer areas but I agree

I don't think people get that if you defund the police in let's say a more poor side of town hell pretty much every where unless private security there or something else crime will go UP and then people will say what happened to the police and they need to do better. Moral of the story: Defunding police = bad Reforming and/or giving more funding and resources = good

@Cool Cat I don't know how bloated the Seattle PD is. (I don't live there.) What %of Seattle Property tax went to the police? What % now? What % went to social issues then and now? How's it working out?

It is working, you wouldn't have the discussion without the radicall movements

@@polkunus its not though crime has skyrocketed

Title should be “vice is not doing journalism “

@@polkunus yes, dufunding the police is working. It is just some officers and their organisations that are trying to blackmail the government and the people by saying - if you don't pay us "enough", we won't "be able to work", there will be less patrols, 911 response time will be higher.

It will work. Beautifully. The money they"safe" will be re-attributed to Social Programs for which they are paid and following the disaster caused by the lack of safety, the voters will be prepared to agree with a tax increase to pay for "security".

With riots planned for tonight..

Definitely

No you don't. I want to argue but the politics is just a bunch of crazy.

@@eriksatie4061 bruh that's like I dont wanna talk to you because i dont like your politics lol

@@eriksatie4061 you’re a bit confused I think

@@aidan33 Yay we're doing it.

Why pause the video? You can read and pay lol

I would gladly house some for a month I live in South Central LA and there defunding the police starting January by millions .

The video title said defunding not abolish it completely

@@ivandenngari you might as well abolish it if your defunding it.

@@ivandenngari Once you defund to a certain point it might as well be the same thing. Notice how the video said police response times have shot way up and there are less of them. That means when you need them and you call, they probably won't get there on time. Good luck citizen!

@@JallyJam it's been over funded for decades

They twist in all ways possible but we see right through all of them.

Bad things happen at 3AM in any big American city

@@pontifex53 *in any big city There fixed it for you

its crazy how easy it is to trick people and how often people try to do it.

@@johnconnor2572 *in any city

What are you talking about? CHAZ had two deaths, both of which happened as a result of random assholes from outside the CHAZ. Had the CHAZ continued to exist it’s likely that the violence would have died down as white supremacists moved on and the CHAZ population became more heavily armed.

@@haydenbob5974 Why was there EVER guns in this socialist utopia? Kind of hard to agree with anything you say when you dont practice what you preach or you feel as if you are some special exception to the rule

@@kinghunterr6041 democratic socialists arent anti gun.

Both deaths in the CHAZ were caused by outside instigators who came there to cause problems. But hey, blame the victims i guess.

@@queenrayne1338 I have other comments I still need your reply on

totally not corrupt. not at all.

Pretty much. And crime has increased.

@Andre Anyone whites are of color too not just white nonwhites are not of color.

Andre Anyone He looks hispanic dummy. Black isn’t the only color.

@@eldridgedavis due to the pandemic increasing poverty

Progressives are a plague. I think they mean well but are too quixotic to make any real progress and end up causing more harm than good. I mean they certainly aren't known for their practicality.

​@@ws8061 They're absolutely mentally disorganized and useless. This lady asked the cops to solve homelessness. Seriously. These people have no idea how to do anything useful. To reduce (not solve) homelessness, There are 6 things needed all in the same structure: 1. Housing 2. Security 3. Mental heathcare 4. Rehab (second layer of mental healthcare) 5. Trade schools 6. Lead logistics, lead janitor, lead cook (to direct residents in maintaining the place) All 6 are required, or it doesn't work. It's expensive, requires land, man-power, good leadership, and most importantly qualified workers. Mental healthcare is possibly the hardest to get, because of how few there are after Obama's budget cuts.

Cops quit and the government there just let it happen? Let cops not do their job.. Shoot. If only the average worker got paid to beat customers.

@Cool Cat spike in violent crime failure for police to respond to certain calls tells you everything. Do you feel things have gotten better when the police were defunded?

@Cool Cat This stuff was in the god damn video. ??? Did you even watch it???

Bruh why you treat iCarly like that?

@@fried5028 Carlys character was like number 6 out of my favorites in that show, how tf the main character the least likeable 😂

it was actually filmed in LA but fictionally set in seattle

I hope so. This video didn’t go into proper specifics. Certain police budget money should got to other city services that may help cops like money for social workers and other tasks to make cops work less stressful and more targeted.

@@hentaimonster3402 stick to your tentacles not your semi-racist jokes.

@@ricardobarahona3939 what it sounds like is needed is increased taxes to fund those programs. You don’t rob Peter to pay Paul. Police departments around the country are already understaffed and over worked. And as mentioned in this video, extreme increase in crime, the rise of BLM and anti cop sentiment is causing police moral to be low and for them to leave the department in cities like Seattle where they are not being show support. Your shootings yourself in the foot. This defund police narrative is the stupidest fucken idea.

@@Unknown024 There’s no robbing. Local governments control the police budget and budgets of other services, more should be spent on those programs and some of that money should come from police depts since they typically get large amount of local budgets in the first place. This is also a tool to avoid tax increases.

@@ricardobarahona3939 defund an already struggling police department. Not a smart move. Losing the security of local police is a recipe for disaster especially for low income communities where high crime rate is an issue. This will have the unfortunate effect of disenfranchising the black and latino community. As I said, you’re just shooting your self in the foot.

just another toilet

their economy is great and there is police accountability

@@sebastiangarcia-yb5ro there’s no law to speak of

@@sebastiangarcia-yb5ro city is lost

Seattle is the armpit of washington. Don’t forget Tacoma and Lakewood as well

everyone who is not on meth agree

How he asked hard questions to both the cop that went against his ideals and the protester that went against her ideals. Legitimately confused how you could be mad at this

Guarantee Who1sThis doesn’t have a problem with bias, only *this* kind of “bias”. If an outlet primarily reports one slant, and a single video among thousands taking a different slant constitutes “bias”, then the word bias has been inverted.

@@broidk8291 He was really rude to the first and second person he interviewed

seriously

She will never live that down.

@bob blm and defund the police movement spread majorly in nz aswell through social media. it sucks honestly

@bob time to leave Seattle!

@bob the founder of BLM, who claims to be Marxist, owns a ton of real estate. That's the problem: communists make everyone equally poor, while making the elites rich.

I dont feel I deserve to have to carry a pistol just to feel safe working on construction sites in seattle.

The politicians do, the majority of the people don't.

We are calling it the summer of love. Remember? Jeez

And it was only defunded by 20 %, I mean yea BLM matters but, at the same time so do police and what they enforce

Correlation does not equal causation

@@talon2577 this is cause and effect bucko

citation?

They want fewer better trained cops. Soldiers have a multi step process before engaging, and still may face court marshel. They don't. They get "transfered"

No. Government budgets across the board have been bloated for years, and spending more has obviously not yielded great results. It's time to reevaluate what money spent means when it comes to desired results. Throwing more money at things is not (usually) the solution. Figuring out how to maximize the benefit from our invested dollars makes more sense. 20% budget reduction seems entirely reasonable while still allowing for community oriented peace offers to do their jobs. I'm tired of my tax dollars being wasted and yielding terrible results. This is one aspect of that waste.

@@phreenom why are you blaming the money being spent blame the spender

@@nikarshadsulaiman9614 umm, pretty sure what I said was exactly that, governments are miss-spending. It's not the money's fault, but obviously the people in charge...

Great cops won’t kill us anymore sounds peaceful

That is certainly the mindset of someone that fully embraces entitlement society. I doubt she has ever done anything productive for herself, much less others. The joke will be on her in 20 years as she realizes being a leach is not a fruitful lifestyle choice and it is too late at that point to improve her own situation.

Gem me free sheet i wont et nou.

Wow. You both lack context and clearly don’t understand how racism works. “Entitlement society” is the pro-slavery pro-confederacy pro-segregation folks your ancestors were. To believe you had a right to claim another human being as property and went to war over it because you didn’t want to give it up, that’s entitlement. We are human beings and deserve to be treated as such. We did NOTHING to deserve the massive forms of oppression and enslavement that your ancestors, race and class put us through. So, yes, if y’all and your privileged selves don’t want to give us the freedom we are owed from your ancestral oppressions, we will take it back, just like y’all took us.

@@DejaunWright oh kind of like shoveling bullshit like black history month, 4stations of bet, affirmative action, black only dating sites,free college for black only etc. That kind of racism.👍

@@DejaunWright I never enslaved anyone and you yourself were never enslaved. Now put on your big boy pants and get over it.

Its almost as if cops abandoning their jobs with no accountability seems to be the problem here. Video literally states that cops are refusing to do their jobs and are quiting. Just because they're not being allowed to use military grade equipment to assault and kill the general populace.

@@OddOtter707 Why don't you go be a cop and show us how it's done?

@@OddOtter707 Perhaps it could also be due to the social pressure due to the stereotype which you are helping to support whereby police are killing maniacs.

@@syndicateprox they are a nerd behind a keyboard. They probably can’t go outside without having a panic attack.

@@OddOtter707 It's almost as if cops aren't going to want to work for a city that doesn't wan't them.

Not everyone is unhappy. I have the best KZfaq Channel because it’s the nicest.

She meant democracy, which guarantees messy but peaceful and dignified compromises to opposing interest groups. Or maybe you’re just trolling.

These idiots wants to do away with our police and bring in the U.N. soldiers as police

How was this biased? This video made it very clear that defunding police especially during times of turmoil is bad and can be dangerous. What more do u want?

The interviewer is 100% idiot. Probably works for Microsoft and thinks Breonna Taylor was a Nun

@FirtzRoy Why would they stay in a community that doesn’t appreciate them or that wants to work actively against them. The popo job isn’t easy, they deal with the worst in society so you don’t have to on your sheltered commute to your day job. Well soon you might get jacked at the traffic light and realize maybe the police wasn’t so bad.

@@chinadashauthority65 nah they won't put 2+2 together. They never do.

Morale rock bottom, hostile local government, budget cuts, expected to do more for less money. You couldn't pay me enough to be a cop there.

Good!

It’s like the Eric Andre meme: City council: cuts budget and allows protesters to abuse cops Cops: leave City council: Why would they do that?

Which is what exactly?

@@jerrygundrum1 It's exactly the elephant on the table

@@jerrygundrum1 for the population poverty, drugs, mental health and for the cops racism and admitting mistakes... for both to see it from the others shoes

@@jerrygundrum1 TriHard

Capitalism. And no, I'm not saying communism is the solution. A Resource Based Economy is probably what will work best at this point.

Yeah you can't make everyone *happy* but if you make everyone *unhappy* you are not getting elected.

Socialism in action.

@@DrCruel how?

@@pimgeon_ Socialists advocated for defunding the police. They got their way, with predictable results. Socialism in action.

@@DrCruel what makes them socialists?

That was the point of the statement cops are asked to do too many things. Her idea is just flawed by just changing some budget line items won't fix it.

@@davidvanderbrook3988 I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or for real since her previous statement where she said if people are upset that means she's doing things right... This blows my mind. Even if there was sarcasm in that statement, enough is enough ...these politicians are held to the highest standard...yes, even higher then the police.

@@KillerX1911 if it was sarcasm I didn't feel it and I'm the king of using it at the worse possible times. You are right about our politicians. We need to get rid of the idea that emails and phone calls do nothing. I can tell you if you can form an intelligent idea there staff will listen. If the idea is good or popular then it goes up the food chain. I had an issue with workers comp. I called my rep within an hr of talking to an intern my representative's assistant called me. We talked for over an hr and she said send us an email They would be happy to write a letter to the worker's comp board on my behalf. We can hold our politicians accountable at all times. We just don't do it in the numbers needed to institute change. Right now every couple of years for a couple of months they act on their best behavior feed us the lies we want to hear and move on. After the vote there right back to golfing with lobbyists. We can even hold them accountable for attendance in the house and senate. It's all public record whos there every day, what they vote o,n and if it was remotely or in person. Some of these people are hardly ever there. That's unacceptable, just like how they shouldn't have an option to go home without a stimulus bill. They also shouldn't be making extra money or need more funding to accomplish it. If they can't do their job properly in the allotted amount of time. Then well maybe we need someone that can. I've never seen jobs in the private sector that allows people to do so little yet still keep their jobs. If I live in dc id be putting a chain and lock on the doors of Congress. Tell them they have 24 hrs before I start sending in dying people so they can explain the hold up to them.

I beleive she meant WE as our culture...

She's literally the one using her power to solve those issues without the police

I guess that social worker should have minded their own business, instead of trying to control someone telling them how to live or what they can or can't have being nosey.

That's the problem with America everyone thinks they have a right to tell someone else how to live, what they can or can't have, can or can't do, can or can't go, how to live.

@@ladydragon7777 No, it was their job. Instead of sending police they send Social Workers to de escalate the situation however a lot of the calls on homeless are on people on drugs as Seattle as a bad drug epidemic amongst the homeless. The person was stabbed as they were sent to the scene as part of the job. And actually now no longer receive a police escort as they were defunded. The police do a lot of things wrong and get everyone upset, I’m disgusted by the videos that almost come out every month of racial profiling. However removing the police or trying to replace them with social workers, sees an increase in crime. When someone is sent to the scene you never know the intent or mental stability of the person that’s why a police officer has offensive training to prevent or yield less dangerous outcomes to themselves or perpetrator in case of an attack.

@@felcynchannel840 the police have been defunded so

Right lol

I live in Seattle and was expecting this answer 100% from a city council member. Thank god they didn't ask Sawant anything, that crazy do-nothing-life long politician would of probably said a start would to be burning down amazon and demolishing all police.

Fire the city council. Fire the mayor. These people are useless & have helped destroy Seattle.

I think she was alluding to the old adage that goes something like, “A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied.” It encapsulates the idea that finding a solution all parties are satisfied with is extremely difficult in the real world, and, given her profession, I’d wager that it’s an idea she has seen become reality in her daily life. She seemed to me to be one of the more rational, competent, and realistic people in the video; certainly, more so than the interviewer.

@@MattD212 don’t let them trick you

When? Back when Shane and Simon Ostrovsky traveled to Siberia looking for North Koreans? ~10 years ago?

Pretty sure they never were.

look what the Democrats have done to our once beautiful nation

That was never

This is why they're aloud on KZfaq

What time?

7:15

Yea I caught that one! Wow! That lady is a total tyrant!

This woman is the epitome of what’s wrong with democratic rule and why America’s major cities are in historic decline. You know who suffers? The very inner city blacks and minorities they say they’re helping.

Explains why the city is in shambles

Your sentence is structure is weird.

@christina alfonse H1N1 is not comparable to COVID-19. H1N1 killed 12,500 people over the course of a year. COVID has killed 308,000 in ~9 months. The super spreaders of COVID-19 are the dumbasses who refuse to wear masks or social distance despite knowing 300K+ of their fellow Americans are dead.

You illiteracy is unfortunately real.

English please

@@elizabethowens7750 How do you know WHO the super spreaders are? Have you personally tracked everyone who was and wasn’t wearing a mask? Let me guess, you’re just parroting what the news says? Yeah, that’s what I thought.