‘Ashamed’ of department, Seattle cop explains why it’s time to quit

As protests continue and Seattle leaders turn their backs on the Seattle Police Department, some cops are deciding to call it quits.

Seattle police officers email, text, and tweet at me about how they no longer want to work for a city that despises them so much.

Two years ago, cops felt dismayed and attacked by a city that didn’t value them. They were called racist murderers by Socialist Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant and felt the council were too quick to demonize them. There was a “mass exodus” of cops at the time.

Now, you have Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda listening to a man demanding cops kill themselves, and rather than condemn the threats, she justifies them. Councilmember Debora Juarez says it’s not just “a few bad apples” in the police department. She said the whole tree is rotten.