Seattle police chief resigns leaving the city without intelligent life at the top

Stephen Kruiser:
Seattle’s Summer of Love is certainly having a rough go of it. Not long after Seattle’s insane city council put the wheels in motion to defund and practically dismantle its police department, news began to leak that Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best had tendered her resignation. Best, who is Seattle’s first black female chief, has been the lone adult in the room during the roiling “protests” in the Emerald City.

Best has been at odds with the city council ever since the unrest began, trying to do her job while being actively opposed by the powers that be in Seattle.
Last month, after the council kneecapped Best’s police by banning the use of what they would need to defend themselves in the face of violent rioters, Best sent a letter to business owners in downtown telling them that the cops wouldn’t be able to help in the face of a large, unruly mob.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan — who has at times seemed like a blithering idiot — did seem to have a good working relationship with Chief Best and appeared to be somewhat sensitive to Best’s concerns.
The council, however, remained clueless and implacable. How clueless? From Victoria’s post:
Fox News reported that the vote to begin defunding the police came with one “nay” vote, that of commie Kshama Sawant, who said the plans didn’t go far enough to destroy the cop shop,  so she was out.
That’s right, the leftist loons weren’t far enough left for one of them.
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It wouldn’t be terribly surprising if Chief Best is just the first of many high-ranking members of law enforcement in the liberal hellholes to decide that enough is enough and retire. It’s been a war on law enforcement ever since Barack Obama repeatedly threw cops under the bus any chance that he got. The escalation of the hatred we’ve seen in recent months is really Obama’s legacy.

A Biden presidency will be a nightmare for cops, and Carmen Best probably knows that in her heart. Just last weekend, Biden was on Twitter dredging up the liberal lie about Michael Brown and Ferguson, smearing cops as racists.
Carmen Best saw the writing on the liberal wall and the Seattle city council isn’t the only cop-hating progressive clown show in charge of a city. This selling out of law enforcement is already playing out in New York, Minneapolis, and other places. Why would good cops continue to risk their lives for imbeciles who take their cues from snot-nosed brats?
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The absolute stupidity of the cop hatred left is leading to increased lawlessness and turning crime into a growth industry.  It is not just in Seattle.  New York City and Chicago are out of control as local mayors pull back police protection to appease the criminal leftists.

Policing is a job that requires a presence on the streets to deter crime.  If you put enough officers on a city block you can confront criminals and protect citizens.  Defunding the police and reducing their number gives the criminals more freedom to exploit citizens.  That is why a vast majority of blacks in this country oppose the BLM movement to destroy the police.  We should be increasing the force to space ratio to the point that the mobs are outnumbered.

Doing otherwise leads to organized looting like just happened in Chicago.

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