https://publicola.com/2023/08/08/no-solutions-for-unsheltered-burien-residents-after-another-contentious-council-meeting/
By Erica C. Barnett Burien officials continue to insist that they are doing everything in their power to shelter several…
https://www.thestranger.com/crime/2023/08/02/79101694/seattle-should-pay-people-not-to-shoplift
Stuffing people into overcrowded and deadly jails isn’t cost-effective, humane, or sustainable.
https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/07/19/derailing-defund-how-spd-manipulated-media-narrative-around-2020-protests
While thousands of Seattleites took to the streets to protest George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police, calling for the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to be defunded by 50 percent, exclusive SPD documents obtained via public records requests reveal internal deliberations and backroom dealings designed to craft a counternarrative to those demands. As pressure to cut the department’s budget in half ramped up in June 2020, SPD’s top brass attempted to influence public perception of how cuts to the department might impact operations, employing scare tactics and warning of a public safety crisis, even as leadership staff within the department internally recommended civilianizing or eliminating a number of SPD units.
Saw a pretty sweet firework show from about 10pm to 10:20pm far away from somewhere in the direction of the lake. Does anyone know what that was about? Very late Independence Day celebration?
https://publicola.com/2023/07/11/at-mariners-request-mayors-office-pushed-for-encampment-sweep-to-make-opening-day-great-last-year/
By Erica C. Barnett For weeks, the city has been scrambling to make downtown Seattle, Pioneer Square, and the stadium…
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