{"id":21535,"date":"2020-06-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c6f45b44fae1270c8ace36603444e434"},"modified":"2020-06-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:00:00","slug":"re-imagining-public-safety-with-king-county-councilmember-girmay-zahilay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/06\/12\/re-imagining-public-safety-with-king-county-councilmember-girmay-zahilay\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-imagining public safety (with King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Budgets are a reflection of our values, and the money we budget for the police is no exception. Our state and local budgets for what we call \u201csafety\u201d are not getting outcomes that reflect our morals. Seattle-area King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay joins Nick and Jessyn to lay out five policies elected officials should be pledging to support right now to re-imagine public safety.\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Girmay Zahilay is a member of the King County Council from District 2. He is an attorney, non-profit founder, and organizer.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GirmayZahilay?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@GirmayZahilay<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Further reading:<\/p><p>City council will consider defunding Seattle Police: <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/2020\/06\/city-council-will-consider-defunding-seattle-police\">https:\/\/crosscut.com\/2020\/06\/city-council-will-consider-defunding-seattle-police<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Washington state\u2019s other epidemic: Mass incarceration: <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscut.com\/2020\/03\/washington-states-other-epidemic-mass-incarceration\">https:\/\/crosscut.com\/2020\/03\/washington-states-other-epidemic-mass-incarceration<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Defund the police? Here\u2019s what that really means: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/06\/07\/defund-police-heres-what-that-really-means\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/06\/07\/defund-police-heres-what-that-really-means\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/\">http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/<\/a><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchforkEcon\">@PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p><p>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pitchforkeconomics\/?hl=en\">@pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p><p>Nick\u2019s twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickhanauer?lang=en\">@NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Budgets are a reflection of our values, and the money we budget for the police is no exception. Our state and local budgets for what we call \u201csafety\u201d are not getting outcomes that reflect our morals. Seattle-area King County Councilmember Girm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21536,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions\/21536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}