Sitemap - 2023 - Notes from the Emerald City

Seattle Drug User Diversion (LEAD) Will Max Out Its Capacity in Spring 2024

SPD Sure is Excited About Increasing Surveillance in Seattle

A Mixed Seattle Budget, While a $221 Million Deficit Still Looms

Will Seattle Pay SPOG a Premium to Let Others Help SPD with its Staffing Woes?

The Debate over ShotSpotter in Seattle Continues, While King County Takes Up Juvenile Solitary Confinement

Budget Amendments are Coming!

SPD's Unfavorable Rating Soars to 64% in Local Poll

Will ShotSpotter CCTV Cameras Roam Seattle's Streets Next Year?

Mayor Harrell Has No Plan to Prevent Budget Austerity Next Year

Seattle's Dual Dispatch Pilot Doesn't Sound Like a True Alternative Response to Behavioral Crisis

Scandal Rocks SPD as City Council is Posed to Vote to Give Them More Power

The End of the Consent Decree is Tied to the Next SPOG Contract

The New War on Drugs Could Increase SPD's Biased Policing Problem

Court Ruling Yet Another Example of SPD's Racial Bias in Action

The Seattle War on Drugs Redux

Blue Flu as a Negotiation Tactic

Real Change Reporting Reveals Federal Monitor Oftelie Getting Cozy with SPD

Another Egregious Example of SPD Culture in Action

75% Approval of Unarmed Emergency Response in Seattle

Seattle's Alternate Response Pilot a Far Cry from 2020 Demands

Shake-Up at the Mayor's Office

Seattle to Launch "War on Health"

Seattle City Council Votes Against New War on Drugs

SPD Responsible for 1 out of 10 Killings in Seattle, Data Scientist Says

Seattle to Decide Whether to Launch a New 'War on Drugs'

We're Going to Go Tougher on Drugs Because No One Cares about Evidence of What Actually Works

Another Officer on the CPC?

New Drug Law Negotiations Still Messy

Hunger Games in the King County budget?

The Homelessness-Jail Cycle

Disproportionate Incarceration is Alive and Well in King County

"We Can't Just Keep Doing What We've Been Doing"

"Stealth Jail Expansion": The Fight Over the SCORE Jail Contract Continues

Community Outcry against King County's Potential SCORE Jail Contract

The Exodus of Inmates from the King County Jail Continues

Innocent Bystanders are the Losers in this Week's WA Senate Shenanigans

Alternative Response in Seattle is Behind...Again

SPD Continues to Answer a Large Number of Non-Criminal Calls

The Cycle of Police Violence Continues Unabated

Budget Decisions Come Home to Roost

Record Deaths of Unhoused People in King County in 2022

Recent Drop in Violent Crime Takes the Wind out of Fearmongers' Sails