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And we're not even getting into what Kevin Dave did in Arizona before getting hired at SPD and then fatally hitting Jaahnavi Kandula. Raced away from his own former Tucson PD officers after being fired and while drunk blamed them for why other police departments won't hire him.

The Divest Digest July 1, 2026 * Cop Surge On 12th & Jackson * Detrans Chuds BTFO * J6 Cop Plays the Victim Card * Charlie Harger Learns There Is No Santa Clause open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

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SPD literally fired a guy for smoking weed, which is legal, but cops can be wet af behind the wheel and keep their jobs. There’s a captain with two DUIs and a DV arrest that went to trial. DUIs are coddled and lightly disciplined. It is, in fact, a systemic issue at this point.

That’s not true, at least in Seattle. One cop got his gun taken away under an extreme risk protection order because he was suicidal and now he’s a sergeant.

> Be a Seattle Police Sergeant > Make $90 hour > Still buy generic booze from Costco

Important ruling that makes it much harder for police to get location data. Unfortunately there is a big gaping loophole that we see cops increasingly using: they just buy their way around getting warrants as I wrote for @pogo.org www.pogo.org/analyses/pol...

Seattle's finest. Drinking Seattle's cheapest.

He also had an open container of “Happy Dad” hard seltzer in the center console.

A Seattle gang sergeant was found passed out behind the wheel at an intersection with a half-empty bottle of Kirkland Signature Vodka in his cab. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

That Prairieland defendant who moved some zines got more time than a Seattle cop who sexually abused his two daughters almost daily for 10 years.

J6 cop Jason Marchione got 18 months paid vacation and insists he was a “victim.” The OPA found that he lied, but they walked it back after some backdoor maneuvering by his commanders. Now, he’s saying he was persecuted. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.

among the 22 defendants are Des Revol, Champagne Song (pictured with partner Rowan Gibson, an unsentenced defendant) Autumn Hill (pictured with wife Lydia Koza), Savanna Batten, Dario Sanchez (unsentenced), the Sotos, and Meagan Morris (pictured with Hill). 8 were sentenced to a combined 450 years.

The roadblocks along Aurora Ave will likely stay, and the city is mulling a new satellite precinct (that we can't afford). These are a few of the Public Safety committee's responses to the latest ginned-up crime panic. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

Prairieland sentencing update: today’s rulings don’t just close a case, they clarify the direction of power. What happened is not only about eight defendants sentenced in Texas; it is about the rapidly expanding power of the state to redefine dissent itself as terror. Full update in the link below.

It's starting. Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes has racked up nearly 50 complaints since he joined the department. Is the police guild weaponizing the OPA? All signs point to "Yes." www.divestspd.com/p/nearly-50-...

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Initially, the OPA didn’t investigate the shooting. Force Review just judged it lawful, but another person filed a complaint after seeing the video.

KCSO put out a BOLO with pictures for someone who got into a fight with another person at an anti-ICE demo. This is the kind of thing usually reserved for bank robberies and shooting, not unproven allegations of misdemeanor assault.

The Divest Digest Jun. 17, 2026 * Security theater on Aurora * Too many cops at the World Cup * Smile! You're on kiosk cameras open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

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Not shocked. Actually more disturbing: "In his first year on the job, Pomazon fired through his own windshield at a fleeing, unarmed man who threw a flaming stick into his cruiser. He did not hit the man. The OPA ruled that this use of deadly force was justified. He makes $159k, excluding overtime."

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When someone takes their own life, responding officers are expected to behave respectfully. Seattle Police Officer Caleb Pomazon treated a woman's death as a morbid spectacle. CN: suicide, graphic descriptions of traumatic injury. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

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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.

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.

Last year, Jason Rantz and the King County deputies' guild tried to get Capt. Jamie Deer, an openly trans cop, fired for an anti-Trump Facebook post. Deer accused the deputy who filed the complaint against him of embellishing a 2018 misgendering incident. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

EXCLUSIVE The perks of policing an Eastside suburb that's essentially one large golf course: * Large crates of wine and cigars * Using your clout to creep on DV victims * Helping your buddies escape accountability open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

THE DIVEST DIGEST June 3, 2026 * Mike Solan runs for office * Kettle calls for a new SCORE contract * Inquest into Derek Hayden's shooting underway open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

OPA Director Bonnie Glenn’s calls are SHOCKINGLY bad and she needs to be terminated

Can’t believe the county denied this woman a grant just because she’s painfully ignorant of everything. Typical woke gatekeeping!

On the 1st day of Pride, here's a reminder that the Seattle police were never held accountable for their violence in the gayborhood last May. A sergeant viciously beat a protest medic. After initially finding this excessive, the OPA walked it back. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

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Feels like cops are going to use this as a justification to murder kids with pellet guns. “He pointed a deadly weapon at me, sarge”

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The Cook County Sheriff has a massive problem of deaths at the jail, despite record low # of people there. Instead of fixing problems, Dart is sending cops on the CTA and build out a surveillance network. https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/ccso-briefcam-flock-alpr-ai-jail/

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Brandi Kruse riled up a mob of hooting yokels to get a cop fired for speaking out against an initiative sponsored by megamillionare weeb Brian Heywood (who also sponsors Brandi's show through his front group Future42). It didn't work.

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What are the odds that Officer Pryce chooses to retire this month to: 1. take advantage of the 27 week pay period loophole 2. pause the Internal Affairs investigation www.portland.gov/police/news/...

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Another case of cops using surveillance to justify detaining, harassing, & assaulting random people

Based solely on a hit from a Flock camera, a King County deputy detained the wrong man. The deputy suplexed him and sent him to the hospital with a brain bleed. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...

We are back in the courtroom for The Trial of the Spokane 3. It's the sixth day of the trial and today the defense will begin to make their case.

Based solely on a hit from a Flock camera, a King County deputy detained the wrong man. The deputy suplexed him and sent him to the hospital with a brain bleed. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...