Seat­tle City Coun­cil vot­ed to cut the police depart­ment bud­get by rough­ly 18% – less than half of the 50% reduc­tion that activists had called for – and instead re-allo­cate “mil­lions” of dol­lars to “fund com­mu­ni­ty alter­na­tives,” accord­ing to offi­cials and recent reports.