At the least 118 officers have left the Seattle Police Division (SPD) following mass Black Lives Matter protests and metropolis price range cuts. It at the moment has round 1,200 officers on its drive – the bottom quantity in a decade. ...

Seattle Metropolis Council has voted to overturn Mayor Jenny Durkan’s veto on laws that may slash thousands and thousands of from the native police finances, a transfer cheered by activist teams and reviled by some residents. ...

Russia is about to chop army spending subsequent yr in favor of boosting the nationwide financial system, marking the primary time in seven years the 2 areas have traded locations within the authorities’s price range plans. ...

With the Pentagon reportedly set to shutter the US army’s long-running newspaper, President Donald Trump has stepped in to declare Stars and Stripes secure from closure. Nevertheless, that closure has been within the works for months. ...

Seattle police chief Carmen Finest has introduced her resignation following a metropolis vote to slash regulation enforcement budgets, together with her personal wage. Finest, who was on the power for 28 years, described the cuts as “punitive.” ...

Portland noticed the very best variety of homicides in July in additional than three many years, officers say. The uptick in violence has strained police assets, which have already suffered from finances cuts. ...

Norman residents are uniting to verify their voices are heard after metropolis leaders lower $ 865,000 from the police division’s funds. “You’re not helpless. For thus lengthy it looks like we had been all helpless on the whims of the folks in workplace, however now we’re awake,” Unite Norman ...

Three folks have been murdered in New York in a single day into Thursday, in keeping with a grim development that noticed police responding to the very best variety of shootings in over 20 years final month amid a leftist push to divest from the drive. ...

s governments nationwide transfer ahead with plans to shift funds away from legislation enforcement within the aftermath of George Floyd's police-involved demise final month, Los Angeles CEO Sachi Hamai has put ahead a proposed price range with suggestions to chop some $ 145.four million allotted to native police. The ...

India ranks behind solely the US and China for navy spending. With large finances cuts coming, it wants a mannequin that will get it extra for its cash – like Russia’s. ...