The Seattle Police Department (SPD) investigated 50 homicides last year, the most homicides in the city in 26 years. This was an increase of 61 percent compared to the 31 cases in 2019. Law enforcement personnel cited issues such as ongoing protests as well as officials actively limiting police power. Data from local police also shows that homicides across the country rose by 36 percent in 2020 compared to a year before. “Obviously, the pandemic, the political climate, the civil unrest adds to that,” Jim Fuda, law enforcement director of Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound, told The Epoch Times. “You cannot blame police for that.” Fuda started serving the King County Sheriff’s Office in 1973 at the age of 21, making him the youngest deputy sheriff in the office at the time. Police union head Mike Solan told The Epoch Times, “I think it is a result of the energy …