Durkan is proposing enough funding to hire 125 officers for a projected net increase of 35 officers over attrition next year. Under her proposal, the department would grow to 1,230 officers, still short of the 1,343 officers funded in the 2021 budget. The proposal is aimed at stopping the department’s shrinking force and has the potential to be a dividing line between the mayor, council and activists still calling for that money to be spent elsewhere.
In a brief televised address, Durkan said the priorities of her budget were twofold: continue the city’s recovery from the pandemic while not losing sight of the crises that predated COVID-19, such as homelessness
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