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Seattle homicides highest in over a decade as council cuts police budget

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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to sign a new city budget that will reduce the police budget by 18% despite homicides reaching record highs not seen in a decade.

Council members overwhelmingly voted last week to cut funds for police training, overtime and to eliminate dozens of vacant positions within the Seattle Police Department after months of contentious talks.The reductions fall short of the 50% local activists demanded amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice.

The council also decided to transfer parking enforcement officers, mental-health workers and 911 dispatchers out of the police department.  “I believe we are laying the groundwork to make systemic and lasting changes to policing," Durkan said in.

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