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Anonymous Seattle Cop Pens Open Letter To Citizens: ‘I Have Now Been Broken’

Hank Berrien
Anonymous Seattle Cop Pens Open Letter To Citizens: ‘I Have Now Been Broken’
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On Monday night, radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH in Seattle shared an open letter reportedly from an anonymous Seattle police officer in which the officer poignantly described himself as “broken” because the citizens of the city have abandoned their police department.

The letter began, “I am a police officer in your city. I say your city because I don’t live in the geographic boundaries that make up ‘Seattle.’ My kids were fully entrenched in school in a neighboring city when I decided to become an officer and I didn’t want to uproot them. My experiences are my own but I believe other officers will have had similar experiences and may be nodding their heads when they read portions of this letter.”

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