Tim’s Blog
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Thoughts on Police Reform from a UW Criminologist
With national and local attention rightly being focused on policing and criminal justice reform, it is…
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Six Steps to Effective Police Reform
This post was first published Friday, August 14, 2020 in The Seattle Times. In its reckless rush…
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Important Steps to Police Reform
This post was first published today at Crosscut.com. It was co-authored by myself and Bernard Melekian,…
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Pandemic exposes our neglect of children, families
This post was first published in The Seattle Times on April 24, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic…
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Five things we should do to protect the public from chronic crime and persistent offenders in downtown
This post was first published earlier today at Crosscut.com. I’ve been thinking a lot about the…
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Washington’s Current Childcare System Punishes Upward Mobility
Former State Representative Ruth Kagi and I wrote this post which first appeared in the Puget…
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Building the Common Good, Saving Democracy
Journalist Monica Guzman leaned across the table in the coffee shop where we were sitting; she…
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A Strong Democracy Starts with High-Quality Early Learning
A strong democracy requires high-quality early learning.
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Pre-K Education Lifts All Children
(This post first appeared today at Seattletimes.com.) We are failing to prepare all of our children…
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Trumps Dangerous Attacks on Rule of Law
Donald Trump continues to attack the rule of law through his continuing comments degrading the FBI,…
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On Tyranny
I’m reading Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. It’s an analysis of…
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What’s next for rule of law when president calls for police brutality?
I couldn’t believe what I heard Friday from the president of the United States. Perhaps I…