Seattle's crime prompts security escorts for county employees amid new push to defund police

By Fox News —— Bio and Archives November 12, 2021

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Seattle’s downtown is now considered so dangerous that King County employees will be escorted by security guards to buses, trains and ferries as part of a new program under a renewed bid to defund police. Private sector workers won't have such option. The new initiative, dubbed the Walking Bus pilot program, was announced internally to King County employees Wednesday — the same day the city council, seemingly going against the wishes of Seattle voters’ rejection of the defund police movement, proposed a nearly $11 million cut from the force.-- More...