Public Safety
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Mayor Wilson: What Comes Next?
Last week, Mayor Katie Wilson sought and accepted the resignation of Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes.…
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Finish the Job: Seattle’s Public-Space Cameras Are Working, With Safeguards to Match
This summer, the world watched Seattle, and national media named us one of the best soccer…
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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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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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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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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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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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Repeal the Death Penalty
Yesterday, Gov. Inslee, Attorney General Ferguson, former Attorney General McKenna, and several Democrat and Republican legislators…