“I’m not begging officers to come back -- I’m inspiring them to come back.”
Currently, SPD has over 900 sworn officers on duty, well short of its goal of having between 1,400 and 1,600. And while offering hiring bonuses was a sizable focus of the previous mayoral administration, Harrell believes those types of financial incentives are a small piece of a larger puzzle.KIRO Newsradio’s Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin
“What we’re looking at is a comprehensive package that we’ll develop before the budget,” he added. “We want to know that.” “This is still a phenomenal city,” he noted. “You want an industry, whether it’s high-tech, or biotech, or maritime, or port, or manufacturing, we have it here; freshwater, saltwater, mountains. We compete because we are the best city in this country and that’s not me being an evangelist, that’s just data.”
“On the vaccine issue, I believe that we mandated it for a reason,” he explained. “I understand why someone may not want it and I support our first responders, make no mistake about this, but I think the data and the science would suggest that the vaccine is the way to go, and so I expect to lead by example.”“I’m going to make this clear too, I don’t beg police officers to come back — I’m not in the begging business,” Harrell added.
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