Page 1
Image One:
Text: “‘Woke’ has become a way to dismiss ideas without engaging with them.”
ALT Text: A young man wearing a shirt that says “Triggered yet?” holds a smartphone and says, “Star Wars is woke now,” referencing how the term is used to dismiss topics.
Image Two:
Text: “One prominent item on the ‘woke’ discard pile: Defunding the police.”
ALT Text: A woman with an angry expression says, “Seattle is a socialist hellhole since they defunded the police,” while a park scene with people playing sports unfolds in the background.
Image Three:
Text: “Except Seattle never defunded the police. SPD’s budget is up dramatically, even as Seattle’s human service workers are underpaid.”
ALT Text: A bar graph shows the Seattle Police Department’s budget increasing from $353 million in 2022 to $373 million in 2023, and then to $383 million in 2024.
Image Four:
Text: “2019 Median Gross Pay”
ALT Text: A comparison of salaries shows a human services worker earning $34K per year, while a police officer earns $153K per year. In the illustration, a police officer stands in the background while a human services worker interacts with an unhoused person holding a sign that says “Anything helps.”
Page 2
Header:
Text: “The ‘Defund was a disaster’ narrative assumes that the SPD makes us safer. But do they?”
ALT Text: A header questions the effectiveness of the police, setting the theme for the page.
Image One:
Text: “One of five homicide victims in WA in the past decade have been killed by a law enforcement officer. The victims are disproportionately Native American, Black, and Hispanic.”
ALT Text: A smiling portrait of Charleena Lyles, a Black woman who was killed by SPD in 2020, is shown.
Image Two:
Text: “Pedestrian deaths are up 150%, traffic citations are down by 90%.”
ALT Text: A portrait of bicyclist Robb Mason, who was killed in a 2022 hit-and-run, is highlighted, reported by Danny Westneat, Seattle Times, 3/15/2023.
Image Three:
Text: “Seattle Police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults in 2020, reported by the Seattle Times, 6/1/2022.”
ALT Text: A woman looking away, symbolizing the countless victims whose cases will never see justice.
Image Four:
Text: “Terrified staffers at the Wing Luke Museum recently waited almost an hour for SPD to arrive while under attack by a bigot with a sledgehammer.”
ALT Text: A man with a sledgehammer smashes the glass window of a museum.
Image Five:
Text: “SPD committed large-scale civil rights abuses during the 2020 BLM protests, including pepper spraying a little boy.”
ALT Text: A police officer aggressively sprays a young child in the face with pepper spray.
Image Six:
Text: “Now that the SPD has created an international incident by killing, and mocking the death of Jaahnavi Kandula, are we finally ready to try new ways to make our city safer?”
ALT Text: A police car with officers inside is shown laughing, with a speech bubble reading, “Low-value person, har har har!” referring to the officer’s recorded mockery of Kandula’s death.
Image Seven:
Text: “‘What ‘defund the police’ means at its most basic level taking money from those who harm the community and investing it in things that help the community: school lunches, healthcare, public transportation, etc.”
ALT Text: A cheerful scene of children playing on a swing set in a well-maintained park, representing community investment. With a final message reinforcing the idea that redirecting police funds to public welfare is a practical and beneficial policy: “You can even call that ‘woke’ if you want!”
