Multiple complaints are being lodged against FAS for the inflammatory email and city response. Assistant Police Chief Deanna Nollette is one of the complainants.
Freelance writer Liz Economou claims she was rejected for a marketing director position despite her qualifications
Cop bashing has become a sport in Seattle literally and figuratively. Police face physical assaults from Antifa thugs and other radicals. And the City Council continues its defunding efforts, even as the city reached a 26-year high homicide rate.
It’s precisely why a historic number of police officers have left the Seattle Police Department, with scores more on their way out.
Since 2020, I have exclusively reported that at least 270 officers have separated from the force. That’s almost one-third of the department. Some resigned, others retired, and many have made lateral moves to agencies more supportive of police. There are at least 100 more officers unavailable, according to an internal HR document. Many are burning their accrued sick and vacation time before leaving the department for good.
Seattle police had a chance to prove abolitionists wrong. They didn’t.
The department s inability to change over the past year has shown that its problems are hardwired into policing, and reform is not working.
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Protesters face off with Seattle Police Department in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood, July 25, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
Both detractors and defenders of the Seattle Police Department must reckon with this fact: since renewed calls for police accountability began after the murder of George Floyd last year, Seattle cops have been on their best behavior at least, the best that they can manage.
Already under a federal probe that began in 2012 when President Obama’s Department of Justice found the Seattle Police Department repeatedly used force unconstitutionally, Seattle police have been the center of much attention and scrutiny for the past year. In the glare of last summer’s spotlight, Seattle police did not rise to the occasion, but rather reve
Rantz: Seattle Inspector General pushes anti-police agenda banning traffic stops May 23, 2021 at 9:24 pm
Seattle Inspector General Lisa Judge is forwarding a dangerous idea. (Photo: Jason Rantz/KTTH and City of Seattle)
Seattle’s Inspector General is forwarding dangerous propaganda with absurd advice. It helps further turn activists in the community against cops. But worse, she’s making it more dangerous for officers to do their jobs.
Lisa Judge is calling on interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz to end low-level traffic stops. She frames it around community and officer safety. Judge argues that pulling motorists over for non-serious crimes “has received widespread attention recently because of tragic situations involving unnecessary deaths.” She cites deaths of officers and members of the public.