When asked what had a negative effect on morale in their exit interviews, Seattle police officers were nearly united in their responses.
Seattle Police officers confer after taking part in a public roll call at Hing Hay Park in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.
“ 2020, where everyone hated us, constant struggles with DOJ and the Seattle City Council,” a detective sergeant, who served Seattle as an officer for more than 15 years, wrote. It’s become an undeniable factor in the mass exodus of officers leaving Seattle. In the last five years, the department has lost more than 700 officers — the bulk coming in the last three years. Last year, SPD only hired 62 officers while losing 96.
“The culture that supervisors instilled was that an officer cannot get in trouble for not doing anything but can get in trouble, via OPA , for attempting to do the right thing and the situation going poorly,” the officer continued.Five of Seattle’s nine council members are serving their first terms in one of the biggest turnovers for the council in decades.
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