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The Seattle City Council’s final $6.5 billion dollar 2021 budget cuts the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and other departments, allocates millions of dollars for community-based alternatives to public safety, replaces the Navigation Team, and expands tiny house villages and other services for unhoused people.

Much of the 20% cut to SPD was accomplished by moving services like parking enforcement and 911 dispatch into another department, and eliminating vacant positions…