Police
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Should Seattle’s City Council Cut Police Services Even More?
Seattle’s City Council will tomorrow morning consider cutting more funding — approximately $5.4 million — from…
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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…
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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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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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Defending the Rule of Law
Over the past couple of weeks, it has been suggested that Seattle police officers should not…
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The Long Road to Effective Management of Our Police Department
When Kathy O’Toole assumed command of the Seattle Police Department in June, 2014, she inherited a…
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The Hard Work of Innovative Policing
Two weeks ago I spoke on a panel at a White House forum on innovations in…
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The False Promise of the Death Penalty
Two high-profile death penalty trials are underway in King County Superior Court: the 2009 assassination of…
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Looking Outside for Assistant Police Chiefs
Earlier this week, Chief O’Toole announced that she is opening up the five assistant chief positions…