Englund's Terry stop data shows clear racial bias. Black ppl (7% of Seattle) accounted for over 1/3rd of his stops and half of his frisks. Whereas frisks of white ppl matched arrests exactly, he frisked Black ppl twice as often as he arrested them. bsky.app/profile/dive...

DivestSPD MVP Stephen Englund is at it again! Officer Englund was investigating a stolen truck and apparently just snatched up the first Black man he saw. Read about it at divestspd (dot) com

Police-ification of the military -- also kinda funny some NG people don't like it because they want to be "good guys" (recognizing, in a sense, that police are not). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Why isn't the cop sales tax going to the voters the same way the B&O tax change is ? Because cop taxes are deeply unpopular. Cops in Des Moines tried to do a cop property tax in 2024 and it lost by a large, 12 point, margin. ballotpedia.org/Des_Moines,_...

The most obvious cop ass looking cop too, real how do you do fellow leftists energy

CRG is short for Community Response Group. CRG was created in 2020 to respond to protests. SPD merged precinct-based anti-crime teams (ACT) into CRG. They also do stuff ACT used to do, like “proactive” “problem oriented policing,” including drugs, prostitution, shoplifting, etc

CRG Officer Caleb Howard was seen skulking around in plainclothes at the Apple protest yesterday. SPD should maybe pick someone we can't identify on sight for this work.

The proposed modification to the B&O tax (tax businesses pay) exempts the first $2M of sales by a businesses. Businesses making less than $2M will pay $0. There's no similar exemption for the sales tax. People making minimum wage and less still pay it.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

He was shot in the back while throwing road flares (called “incendiary devices” by authorities and the press) at a concrete building.

Harrell proposes regressive tax for non-police repsonse neutered by police protection racket FTFY

Fare enforcement isn’t about revenue. It’s about keeping the homeless off transit

If you've been to a demo in the last two years, you know this face. But before he led SPD's POET team, Lt. Larry Longley spent his first years on the job doing outreach with his fists, making racist jokes, and getting sued Buy baseball cards at tinyurl.com/DivestCards

Yeah, that would be unconstitutional like… racial profiling, which the Supreme Court just okayed

Have other public defenders later become evil or is it just Debora Juarez and Kash Patel?

Small correction. We are selling these on an ongoing basis indefinitely! But you should still hurry up and buy some because they’re great.

Anti-ICE protesters have spent months calling on Portland leaders to revoke a permit allowing ICE to operate in the South Waterfront. Today, Mayor Keith Wilson said ICE violated conditions of its land use permit by holding detainees longer than allowed.

Keeping someone alive so you can kill them is the American way

The SPD OPA is so beyond useless, because not only does it not do what it is supposed to, but it costs us money for it to not do it.

Seattle police policy bars cops from using Tasers on fleeing suspects because there's a high risk of injury. A cop did and injured someone. The OPA said this was okay. www.divestspd.com/p/no-discipl...

Hey Divesters, we need help covering our monthly costs of our social media and video editing tool subscriptions. Combined, they're $52. Can you chip in? venmo.com/divestspd

Dear ICE. Please come and poach our cops. While you may assume they’re liberals, Seattle police are just dumb and conservative enough to work for you.

This dystopian ICE recruitment ad targeting Chicago cops is running right now.

Trump did not leave Chicago. He just didn't send the National Guard. Instead, he sent his deportation thugs. And in some ways, that's quite a bit worse.

BREAKING: Judge Chutkan denies emergency relief to men the Trump admin sent to Ghana who appear likely to be—and one already has been—sent to countries where they face persecution or torture and where the U.S. could not have sent them directly. She finds she lacks jurisdiction to order the relief.

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A homeless 5-year-old girl living in Tent City #3 was sexually assaulted. It's shameful that even one child is homeless and vulnerable to danger in Seattle, one of the wealthiest cities in human history.

Only 1 pack away from our goal! Can you help put us over the top?

They’re wearing bodycams?

Folks are rightfully outraged over Brian Kilmeade's remarks, but "Just kill them" is official policy in nearly every US city. Sweeping the homeless constantly, like Mayor Bruce does, and denying them the basic things they need to sustain life, is "Just kill them" by another method.

What a classic Bruce Harrell dumb guy move to sink money into the AI bubble when we’re expecting $150 million deficit this year. Might as well invest in magic beans or bored apes

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Westneat calls public housing "socialism" while corporate bailouts are just "capitalism." The real question: Why is investing in families "fantastical" but investing in police surveillance "necessary"? Classic media gatekeeping 🧵1/3

We’re now only 7 packs away from reaching our goal. Order here: tinyurl.com/DivestCards

Public Safety Chair Bob Kettle is trying to slip a new "public safety element" into the Comp plan. It's still unclear if this will affect anything. It's essentially a bulleted wishlist of vague policy ideas that will all still need to go through the normal process.

Bob Kettle et al sold RTCC/CCTV as an “investigative tool,” but we’re not seeing it. SPD just put out a video of a stabbing arrest, featuring RTCC video of the assault. RTCC didn’t help capture the guy and the video evidence (below) isn’t all that valuable.

Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU

“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”

Charlie Kirk’s death is like the Super Bowl of centrist politics

Surely Trump will send in the troops to restore order to the lawless, godless, and violent State of Utah after this.

These cards are brilliant organizing tools! Perfect for educating people about SPD accountability issues while funding a statewide misconduct database. What's next? Hoping to see "Know Your Rights" pocket cards, budget breakdown stickers, and maybe some "Care Not Cops" merch! 🎯

Also just admitting that cameras don't deter crime but saying it doesn't matter. Then what's the point?

ICYMI: Our first pack of SPD trading cards is on sale! Thanks to everyone who bought some! We've sold a lot but we're still about 10 packs short of our goal for the week.

The most infuriating moment from last night was how CM Juarez reduced public concerns over surveillance to a "data breach" NO ONE WAS SAYING THAT. The feds didn't get WA immigrants' DOL data from hackers

The school shooting industry trade show is probably wild.

Statement on City Council’s Proposal to Dramatically Expand Surveillance of Seattle Residents We urge Councilmembers to stand with immigrant rights groups, civil rights advocates, and the city’s own Surveillance Advisory Working Group to reject the proposals…

The pattern is always the same: 1. Manufacture urgency (FIFA! Trump!) 2. Promise "safeguards" 3. Rush through despite opposition 4. Normalize permanent surveillance Seattle just followed the playbook perfectly. 🧵 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Juarez is quite a piece of work. This is bullying behavior

Saying that surveillance cameras prevent babies from being killed is literally misinformation.