Public Safety
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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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SPD Found in “Initial Compliance” on Use of Force
The monitoring team overseeing Seattle’s progress toward compliance with the federal court order related to Constitutional…
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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…
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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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Superior Court Upholds Gun Violence Tax
This afternoon King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson issued an order upholding the City’s gun…
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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…