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2021-11-24

2020 $409 million - Last budget before uprising, approved in Nov. 2019. 2020 mid-year - Rebalanced budget negotiated b/c of pandemic shortfalls and during height of 2020 uprising (July - Sept 2020). 2021 Budget negotiated from September - end of November 2020. 2021 budget also removed parking enforcement officers and 911 dispatchers from SPD. 2022: $355 millionBudget negotiated from September - end of November 2021. SPD’s budget has decreased 13% since 2020. Seattle is the -only- major city to reduce its police budget two years in a row. 134 vacant, unfillable SPD positions are carrying over into 2022, which will continue to artificially inflate SPD’s budget.
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