My latest about contingency plans (or lack of them) for increased ICE enforcement and/or National Guard deployment in Seattle. If you've been hoping SPD might intervene on behalf of Seattle residents, you might want to read until the end.

Not going to link the @divestspd.bsky.social video (cw shooting death on their page) but it sure looks like SPD shot and killed someone who was complying earlier this week.

CW: Shooting/Death New video of last week's shooting in SODO. Officers told him to drop his gun. He did. They killed him.

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Spokane PD is patting itself on the back after two predators resigned, but this is hardly an accountability success story. They've been preying on DV victims under the department's nose for 10 years. www.divestspd.com/p/spokane-pd...

SeattleU’s criminal justice program had an incestuous relationship with SPD. It provides: -Annual survey/MCPP/Before the Badge (Helfgott) -Most of the data/analytics staff -The current OPA director -RTCC staff -Several officers

The gist of this article is literally: "locals want more cops and security after a security guard shot someone in front of a bunch of cops on Halloween"

Now that the consent decree is over, SPD is no longer following its own policy of releasing officers' names and video footage within 72 hours after a shooting. Control over that now rests with King County and the Washington State Patrol, so who knows when we'll get video of last week's shooting.

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

I've been wondering if Mayor Wilson will continue the practice of having a goon squad.

The new SPOG contract will make Seattle cops some of the country’s highest paid. Among the biggest beneficiaries will be the mayor’s protection detail, who made more than Bruce himself last year.

The good news: SPD fired a cop arrested for DV in under two months The bad news: That's extremely rare (like it-will-probably-never-happen-again rare) Read our latest to find out why www.divestspd.com/p/a-seattle-...

Standards for becoming a citizen: raised Standards for joining ICE: lowered

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

Chat, is Bruce cooked?

Pierce County is investigating all deputies who responded to a felony DUI crash by one of its commanders. PCSO isn't naming names, but we are: Jordan Williams Kevin Pressel Sedona Hall Lucas Baker mynorthwest.com/local/pierce...

Recession/Fascism indicator: It’s a race to the bottom everywhere except police departments

An action against surveillance for those living in Redmond:

"It’s pretty bold of Harrell to call this a completed contract when in reality, huge chunks of this agreement remain up in the air." @hannahkrieg.bsky.social @divestspd.bsky.social www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-ce...

Called it. A certain lazy, sloppy blogger prematurely reported yesterday that SPOG had given up on a change they’ve fought tooth and nail against. Today, the negotiating team announced they’re taking this to arbitration because (surprise) they’ve reached an impasse on it again

I agree, preponderance of evidence is one of the changes accountability advocates have been demanding for years and would be significant within the parameters of the contract.

Erica Barnett reports that the agreement will lower the standard of review for arbitration from “beyond a reasonable doubt” (not the standard) to a simple preponderance of evidence. Not sure if this is accurate, but it would actually be significant, not “minimal”

BREAKING: Mayor Bruce Harrell will announce a tentative agreement with the Seattle policing cartel tomorrow. Officers will start at $118k, and pay will rise to $126k after just six months.

ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn. A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.

This is the "outreach" SeattleU Prof. Jacqueline Helfgott is doing for the SPD Public Safety Survey. These QR codes are posted around South Seattle labeled "LET'S CHAT." It's almost like they don't want people (who aren't on NextDoor) to take the survey.

Seattle cop Robert West was spotted driving with his lights off, swerving out of his lane and nearly hitting another car. Later, his truck was found abandoned, significantly damaged and blocking a driveway.

On Saturday, October 18, ICE agents used a barrage of tear gas, stun (flashbang) grenades, and pepper bullets on demonstrators, leaving the neighborhood street in front of their building filled with gas for at least 10 minutes. More on this and the earlier No Kings rally at portlandmercury.com

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

“No Kings” sounds too extreme. Too confrontational. Can we moderate it a bit? Make it more centrist? Some kings?

If you’re going to the Ms game and you see a Seattle cop in a hi-viz, know that they’re making CEO-level pay to do a semi-skilled position Traffic flaggers make 28/hr on average. This officer is making $101 w/ OT plus a $225 bonus thanks to Mayor Bruce’s giveaway to SPOG last year.

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BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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Harrell gave Officer Muoio a 23% pay raise and a contract that ensures he won’t face any accountability for these actions.

That’s because the cops you see on bikes are generally Community Response Group members. They’re so aggressive because they were selected for aggression. That’s a specific requirement for the job. They mostly have similar disciplinary backgrounds and personalities.

My latest on last week's Seattle school board vote on whether to bring a police officer back to Garfield, the results of which surprised me! Some interesting complexities at play here.

Newly obtained video shows Seattle Police Officer Brian Muoio crashing into someone at the Cal Anderson demo on May 24, 2025.

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We are paying the abuser … our tax $ has been funding him being on vacation for YEARS?! Are you F’ing kidding me?!?!!!

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Also, just for the record, police ALWAYS threaten to quit when someone they don’t like (ie, someone who threatens anything but the most superficial of change), and they never do. But it always gets taken at face value, not as the genuinely *political* statement it is.

A Seattle cop's estranged wife says he fired his gun inside their house last year, nearly hitting her. He's been on paid leave ever since she filed for a protective order alleging domestic abuse last June. www.divestspd.com/p/cops-wife-...

NEW: In the hotly contested Seattle mayoral race, homelessness has become a fault line. Challenger Katie Wilson criticizes incumbent Bruce Harrell’s record, which includes carrying out more than 6,000 sweeps of homeless encampments. Read my full article in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/seattle-mayo...

This thread will be for Saturday workshops 🧵

I find it absolutely impossible to believe that nobody in the chain of command knew that Mike Tietjen, a vocal bigot they've worked with for decades, is a huge piece of shit with an enormous public record of abuse who is unfit for command.

They don’t even consider disciplinary history. It’s purely based on officers’ rankings on the exam. If there are more vacancies than officers on the register, they just promote everyone automatically.

It's also typically lazy of Erica to fill the gaps in her reporting with insinuations that the acting commander Raguso was "quietly removed" despite being a "22-year veteran" and a "fixture at the East Precinct." He was removed because literally everyone else scored higher on the captain's exam.