Tim’s Blog
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Prostituted Children Reality Check
(This article was published earlier today by PubliCola.com.) Last week, I visited The Bridge, the safe-haven…
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SPD Accountability Facts
The Council's Public Safety and Education Committee heard testimony on Wednesday morning from representatives of the…
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Nine Parking Scofflaw Boots Applied on First Day
Today was the first day of the City's new parking scofflaw enforcement program. Vehicles with four…
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Long-Term Crime Trends Nationally and in Seattle
(This post has been updated to reflect crime stats through May 2011 and to add a…
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Lessons on the Fragility of Life
Three things over the past couple of weeks have reminded me of the fragility of life.…
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Perspective on Multi-Family Tax Exemption Program
There has been a bit of controversy recently about the City's Multi-Family Tax Exemption (MFTE) program, a fancy name…
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Beware: Wage Theft Criminal Law In Full Effect Now
Mayor Mike McGinn, Police Chief John Diaz, City Attorney Peter Holmes and I, along with representatives…
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UK Study Mission: Renewable Energy, Density, Transportation, Economic Growth, Public Education and More
Those Brits! Focused. Stiff upper lip. And, did I say "focused?" I recently returned to Seattle…
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Discover Innovative Policing and Crime Reduction Strategies
The Seattle City Council invites you to a discussion of the science of policing with a…
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Death Penalty Abolition
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has written a powerful essay against the death penalty…
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Civilian Oversight of Police
I shared these remarks at the opening session of the annual conference of the National Association…
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Nothing to Fear: SPD Should Open Up Even More
Yesterday, I urged the police department to invite a peer review of their investigation of the…