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Here's a running mega-thread of all our police profiles for easy reading.
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ALT Background (baby blue) Head (navy blue): Seattle's Least Wanted Subhead (navy blue): A Running List of SPD's Worst Cops Beneath text, lower third, centered: DivestSPD broken piggybank logo
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RT @lelulolololol: renton apparently also got a counter drone trailer, in addition to KCSO's 3, and whatever SPD is spending their $2M for…
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This is a recipe for throwing thousands more people with mental illness and substance abuse problems onto the streets.
it’s being cheered on by know-nothing dumb dumbs like Andrea Suarez and “Jake and Spike”
Jun 13
King County could lose $26 million after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) overhauled how it awards homelessness grants, shifting away from the Housing First model that previously accounted for up to 90% of federal funding.
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Are there any K-9s that are well trained and in control?
A police officer in Arkansas was bitten multiple times by his own K-9 during an arrest, according to authorities. katu.com/news/nation-world/c…
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Jun 13
Don’t confuse Brandi with that woke (checks notes) basic criminal procedure.
This is getting so fucking out of hand and it’s because Brandi Kruse either cannot read what prosecutors said or she’s intentionally twisting it.
Prosecutors aren’t pursuing because they cannot establish essential facts (that penetration occurred). And EVEN IF they could…
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Even from a policing standpoint, this is dumb as hell.
You don’t build human trafficking cases from a guy dressed like Rambo handing out pamphlets.
Jun 12
Has it ever occurred to anyone that sending armed men in ballistic vests isn’t the way to do “outreach” to sex workers?
This is security theater meant to reassure residents, not achieve results.
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Right-wing dark money group Change Washington is sending out text blasts encouraging its supporters (and apparently many non-supporters that they have added to their lists) to email Seattle officials and agitate about gun violence and street-based sex work on Aurora Avenue.
ALT Aurora Avenue residents are demanding safer neighborhoods, less violence, and real accountability from city leaders. Make your voice heard. City Hall isn’t acting with any urgency, and elected officials hear directly from the people affected. Make your voice heard. 📧 Email Mayor Wilson: https://cngwa.us/e8omzn 📧 Email Councilmember Debora Juarez: https://cngwa.us/pvvqz3 📖 Learn more: https://cngwa.us/vfwjgc
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Has it ever occurred to anyone that sending armed men in ballistic vests isn’t the way to do “outreach” to sex workers?
This is security theater meant to reassure residents, not achieve results.
Jun 12
NEW: @SeattlePD, @FBISeattle, and social outreach teams surged Aurora Avenue yesterday afternoon, hours after @MayorofSeattle, @SeaCityAttorney, and @SeattleCouncil pledged to crack down on rampant prostitution.
They are looking to get the women services and arrest pimps.
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Fuck this guy. Fuck Brian Heywood. Fuck this miserable, lowlife lying piece of shit. Fuck this loser. This scum-sucking, bottom-feeding troglodyte has more money than God. He could be doing literally anything else and he chooses to do this. Fuck him.
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Jun 12
Like he’s posted a video of this wrestling match where this girl was supposedly sexually assaulted.
And even the bigots who WANT to agree with him are like “that’s literally just wrestling.”
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Jun 11
The city paid $150,000 to the family of the 7-year-old boy Seattle cop Sean Moore pepper sprayed in 2020.
Moore has since been promoted to Lieutenant.
Jun 11
The father of a child who was doused with pepper spray by Seattle police during the early days of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Seattle has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit.
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Super Troopers was a documentary
Jun 11
Pasadena Officer Shot by Fellow Officer During "Horseplay," Chief Says
PASADENA, Calif. — The Pasadena Police Department has released a Critical Incident Video concerning an officer-involved shooting that occurred on September 7, 2025, inside the department's parking structure at 240 Ramona Street in Pasadena. The incident resulted in injuries to one Pasadena police officer, who has since recovered.
Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris said the incident involved "unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay involving loaded firearms" between department personnel. Chief Harris stated that one officer was wounded as a result of the shooting and emphasized that the conduct depicted in the video did not reflect the department's standards or expectations.
The injured officer was transported for medical treatment and has since recovered from the injuries sustained during the incident. Pasadena police have not publicly identified the officers involved, and no members of the public were injured.
The case remains under investigation and review by the Pasadena Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Sources: Pasadena Police Department; City of Pasadena; Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
#police #cops #crime #policia #polizei #Police_Incidents #CrimeNews
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Jun 11
Andrea Suarez isn’t an advocate for the homeless. She advocates homelessness.
If Andrea gets her way, all housing for homeless people will be reduced to one five-person sober house in Yelm run by Christian fundamentalists.
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Jun 11
Layoffs are never the market’s fault.
It’s not the sociopath CEOs trying to squeeze out another dime of profit, either.
It’s always “the government”
Jun 11
Not sure that gloating about the negative impacts of the state legislature’s foolish decision to embrace your communist policies is a good move
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Every single police department is a waste of taxpayer money
LAPD impounded 72 vehicles at a car meet hosted in the LA River. The organizers are absolutely cooked.
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Separations have slowed relative to 2020-2023 but that doesn’t mean “retention” is good.
Older officers, having just gotten two successive raises, are hanging around for longer, milking overtime to run up their pensions on the way out.
Jun 10
As the city prepares itself to host six 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, Seattle Police Department (SPD) Chief Shon Barnes revealed that the department is retaining its staff better than it has in years.
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Jun 10
Picture a large cellphone on the sidewalk that’s always recording you.
Jun 10
‘City at your fingertips’: Seattle powers up first digital wayfinding kiosk near tourist hot-spot geekwire.com/2026/city-at-yo… via @GeekWire
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Bellevue is dying. Will the last one to leave Bellevue turn out the light?
A Bellevue company has broken it's long held commitment to avoid mass layoffs. seattletimes.com/business/be…
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Jun 10
We’re doing our part by cyber-bullying retirement-age cops who make $500k and sleep in their cars.
But they’re not quitting for some reason.
Latest kink in efforts to grow Seattle’s police force: Not enough veteran cops are quitting dlvr.it/TSyKBl
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White cops can now yell “Stop resisting!” In 50 languages.
Truly an age of wonders we live in
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Renton police debut bodycam that translates over 50 languages in real-time kiro7.com/news/local/renton-…
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