A Cop’s-Eye View of Seattle’s Undoing
Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best near the Police Department's vacated East Precinct on July 1, 2020. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
'We were hated. We were literally hated overnight.'
This February, Bruce Harrell, newly installed as mayor of Seattle, made it official: His city is in decline. “The truth is the status quo is unacceptable,” Harrell said in his first state of the city address. “It seems like every day I hear stories of longtime small businesses closing their doors for good or leaving our city.”
But it’s not just small bu…
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