[TRU Research] Cutting the cops

[Katie Wilson]

Just to give an example: After a few minutes poking around in the site I was able to get this graph, showing how the police budget didn’t get cut during the great recession, whereas human services and housing did, and human services in particular took a long time to recover to 2010 levels, whereas the police budget just kept going up (presumably much faster than inflation).

But I can’t figure out easily how to get the data set so that I can see the actual numbers. I know you can download all the data on the site but it’s not immediately obvious to me how to isolate just the data for this graph.




> On Jun 5, 2020, at 8:48 PM, Katie Wilson <katie at transitriders.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey data & research folks,
> 
> Anyone want to do some digging into the police budget?
> 
> https://openbudget.seattle.gov/#!/year/default <https://openbudget.seattle.gov/#!/year/default>
> 
> I’m in touch with some of the people who are thinking seriously about how to cut the police budget & we have a chance to help out with this in a number of ways. 
> 
> Katie Wilson
> General Secretary
> Transit Riders Union
> https://transitriders.org <https://transitriders.org/>
> 206-781-7204
> 
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