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BJ Last

BJ Last organizes with the Seattle Solidarity Budget and is a business analyst with over a decade of budgeting experience.

Op-Ed

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Prisons & Policing

DOJ Intervention Didn’t Stop Seattle’s Police Violence. It Gave Cops More Money.

Seattle learned the hard way that federal oversight via “consent decrees” mainly served to increase police budgets.

By: Angélica Cházaro ,; BJ Last ,; Taylor Riley ,; Truthout

May 28, 2023