"Really accountability" - my ass. You gave yourself away when you juxtaposed SPD salaries as being high against your enumeration of societies problems. You have the gall to say that after they've been underpaid for years and staffing has just finally started to fill up after your council brethren decimated it. You want to bury police in litigation for every perceived rant. You tried to hide your anger, but it's dripping profusely.

"I respect officers who serve with integrity." -- oh please, so which one's aren't? Provide a list. You want to know something with Bobby? I'd like to to have a city council that has enough integrity to be worthy of our respect.

I suggest a better attitude and start listening to your constituents, including those who trying to make a living being police officers.

Curby made him do it.

I’m not one of your constituents, but I do appreciate this stance.

Didn't see this coming but credit where credit's due, this is a strong and principled stance.

@1 "You gave yourself away when you juxtaposed SPD salaries as being high against your enumeration of societies problems. You have the gall to say that after they've been underpaid for years"

SPD starting salaries have been around the highest in the country, and much higher than in cities like New York, Chicago or Boston. How exactly do you figure they were "underpaid?"

@4: I used the past tense. Under 100K for a starting cop in Seattle is underpaid.

@5 relative to what? NYPD start at $60k

@6: I don't get your contention. You obviously think all cops are overpaid across the board.

It'd be cool if this was D1's full-time City Council member, as opposed to the fan of small-time corruption and word salad producer we have most of the time.

'Yes, I opposed chaotic cuts with no plan and introduced legislation to reverse prior city commitments to “defund the police.” '

Well-written and welcome, sir! Hopefully this piles enough dirt on the grave of "Defund" to keep it down permanently. Time to move on accountability and real reform again!

@7 my contention is that your personal opinion that SPD were "underpaid" is untethered from reality, because they are and have been very competitively paid, so your criticism of Saka is unwarranted

@10: It's more of Saka ACAB attitude: He says:

"Seattle employees are already the highest paid in Washington. This contract adds tens of millions of dollars above baseline over four years. Meanwhile, Seattle’s working families face crushing housing costs, childcare shortages, homelessness, food insecurity worsened by federal SNAP cuts, and rising behavioral health needs."

@12 "Records show he has prior misdemeanor assault conviction from 2024, four times in 2023"

You'll be happy to hear we voted out the incompetent clown City Attorney who oversaw those prosecutions

@13: As the City Attorney’s Office can prosecute only misdemeanors, not felonies, what was “incompetent” about those successful prosecutions?

Or do you prefer her predecessor’s policy, of not prosecuting misdemeanors much at all?

The police aren't the problem...