Police Accountability
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Looking Upstream
The following article was sent out in my City View Newsletter, which you can sign up…
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Reflections on Ferguson and Seattle
The following article was posted today on Crosscut. It has been just over a week since the…
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Police Reform and Increasing Public Safety
On July 27, the city took a significant step toward reform of the Seattle Police Department…
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A New Philosophy of Policing for Seattle
My tenure as chair of the Council's public safety committee will end this afternoon when the…
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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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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…
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A Failure of Police Leadership
A Seattle police officer is fired. Allegations against him include use of drugs, illicit distribution of…
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Seattle’s Public Safety Services Stretched Dangerously Thin
My Queen Anne neighborhood has been plagued recently by a rash of burglaries and car break-ins.…