The answer, of course, depends on your politics.
In the news section of the Seattle Times, for instance, a reader is unlikely to see any consideration of a link between policing and public safety.
“No single cause for 2021’s surge in gunfire in Seattle,” declared a typical recent headline over an article that points only to possibilities such as the pandemic or an unlucky cycle of “retaliatory violence”...
QED:
- How it started: Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries. —Fox News, August 10th, 2020.
- How it’s going: Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows.—The Seattle Times, today. - Ed Driscoll
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