In a move that has outraged police, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's office issued guidelines calling for fewer White men and veterans to be featured in Seattle Police Department (SPD) recruitment materials, according to a memo obtained by "The Jason Rantz Show" on KTTH and shared with Fox News Digital.
The March 2023 memo, titled "SPD Marketing More and Less," was written by Ben Dalgetty, a Digital Strategy Lead from the mayor's office who is in charge of SPD recruitment efforts. In the document, first reported by Rantz, Dalgetty calls for more photos and videos of "officers of color" who are "younger" and of "different genders" to be featured in the department's marketing materials.
Conversely, Dalgetty instructed there should be "less" images and videos of "officers who are white, male" and "officers with military bearing," a directive critics have called "flat-out discrimination."
"This doesn't mean no officers who are white or male or only young officers of color, but guidelines to shift the proportions of our photo/video collateral to more of some things and less of others," the March 2023 memo to SPD human resources staff emphasized.
