Nonetheless, the Black Lives Matter movement and Racial Justice advocates didn’t march and organize because crime was out of control in our communities. During Chief Barnes’ tenure, the Office of Police Accountability received 60 complaints about his travel schedule, unprofessional behavior. This is one of the major demands of police reformers locally and the Black Lives Matter movement nationally. Seattle’s Black community is fundamentally different than it was in the 1990s or the 2000s. SPOG appeared to be the driving force behind Chief Barnes slow walking of CARE department expansion , which included him refusing to even meet one on one with CARE Chief Amy Barden for more than a year.