locals are unhappy about the idea on saturday there was a peaceful rally against it outside seattle citicorp the protesters voiced support for the place and denounced the campaign to defund law enforcement agencies across the country demonstrators carried us flags and placards with messages such as protect. police and back to the blue sea pumper a member of the national police association under retired officer himself says that local authorities have no idea what consequences the plans could have. this point the seattle city council is like your kids are a socialist candy shop they see their opportunity and they're seizing it to get their ideology across and they're not really thinking ahead as to what the ramifications are going to be for having civilians handle what are police calls we've been training police officers at police academies based on information and science that's been studied you know over decades and we're refining it as we go along in police work obviously isn't perfect it's never going to be perfect or we strive to make it better. you know they they think they can look at