GEE, PITY THEY AREN’T BETTER FUNDED: Anti-police Seattle pol claims cops ignored poop-tossing attacks on her home.
Search Results
SHE ONLY WANTED TO DEFUND YOUR POLICE, NOT HER POLICE: Seattle City Council Woman Wants Police Protection After Feces Thrown at Her Condo.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Seattle-area school tries to ban saying “biological male.” Our ruling class has gone insane.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Seattle Public School Teachers on Strike, Since 6-Figure Pay Isn’t Good Enough. After a whole year of COVID-related learning loss, kids are now losing out on even more instructional time thanks to Seattle’s teachers union.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Footage shows man released by judge fatally beat senior citizen in Seattle: cops. “A Seattle man released from jail in July after allegedly threatening to kill a transit cop now faces murder charges over an unprovoked, caught-on-tape fatal assault on a senior citizen. Video allegedly shows Aaron Fulk, 48, strike 66-year-old Rodney Peterman with a metal pole in broad daylight Aug. 2 at Pike Street and Third Avenue, according to KOMO News. Fulk kept striking Peterman after the older man collapsed unconscious, fracturing his skull, according to police. . . . A judge there opted to release him despite prosecutors’ request he be held on $10,000 bail, KOMO News said.”
MY FACE IS SO SHOCKED… Defunding the Police Has Backfired in Seattle as They Now Scramble to Hire More Cops.
WHO ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS? Seattle Implodes After Defunding The Police.
HOW IT STARTED: Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries.
—Fox News, August 10th, 2020.
How it’s going: Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows.
—The Seattle Times, today.
GOT WOKE, GOING BROKE: Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay. “By one measurement, as many as a staggering 70% of all passengers are free riders. But even that is only an estimate as there is almost no fare enforcement. Sound Transit did away with fare enforcement officers after a study revealed people of color were disproportionately getting fined. Instead, the system now relies on fare ambassadors. There are only a handful for the whole light rail system, so riders will rarely encounter them. They currently engage only 2% of all riders. When fare ambassadors do board a train, they ask passengers if they have paid their fare. Most have not. But instead of removing fare evaders from the train, fare ambassadors ask a series of questions starting with a request for identification. About 76% of the free-riding passengers refuse to produce valid ID, which makes it impossible to issue a warning. Sound Transit allows two warnings before even the first fine is issued. But with so few people providing identification, fines are infrequently given and even more rarely paid.”
REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay: Almost 70% of passengers ride for free. Consequences, what are they?
What happened to Seattle? The answer, of course, depends on your politics. In the news section of the Seattle Times, for instance, a reader is unlikely to see any consideration of a link between policing and public safety. “No single cause for 2021’s surge in gunfire in Seattle,” declared a typical recent headline over an article that points only to possibilities such as the pandemic or an unlucky cycle of “retaliatory violence”. But the majority view in Seattle appears to have shifted toward an acknowledgement that the unrest and destruction that occurred after the killing of George Floyd in 2020 marked a turning point and that the city’s policies toward its police force, whose ranks are now depleted, are relevant to understanding the story. What follows, based on interviews with a number of past and present police officers — five of whom are on the record in this article — is an attempt to offer an obvious but unheeded perspective. It is a cop’s-eye view of Seattle’s undoing.
Read the whole thing.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Put a Fork in Seattle. “I grew up in the Motor City and I have no sympathy for what used to be Seattle. Detroit’s death was drawn out over years and involved a perfect storm of nonsense, including foolish decisions by auto execs, stupid import/export laws, and a corrupt mayor named Coleman A. Young. Detroit languished. Seattle was executed.”
WOKE DOCS ARE THE WORST: Woke Seattle Doc Kalodimos Eats His Words, Cops to Falsely Maligning Prominent Ivy League Professor.
A Seattle-based family doctor, Harrison Kalodimos, is apologizing to a prominent Ivy League professor and physician, admitting that he grossly mischaracterized remarks the professor, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, made in a 2016 class lecture.
“I offer my sincere apology,” Kalodimos said in a statement posted to his Twitter account last week, noting that he falsely and without evidence alleged that Goldfarb, a kidney specialist and former associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, encouraged students to “lie” about whether they had been victims of sexual harassment and suggested that Goldfarb was “forced out of Penn.”
Kalodimos’s 2019 tweets, which have since been deleted, came in the wake of a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Goldfarb pushing back against moves by medical bodies, including the American College of Physicians, to take positions on political issues like gun control and climate change.
Kalodimos did not respond to a request for comment. Reached at the golf course, Goldfarb declined to comment.
Kalodimos, who at the time of the class lecture was a Penn medical student, according to his LinkedIn profile, took to Twitter to slam Goldfarb, alleging that Goldfarb had reprimanded students for reporting sexual harassment to an accrediting body for medical schools and told them that “we should lie about these experiences … because it would hurt Penn’s reputation.”
“In fact, he did not say those words, nor did he imply that,” Kalodimos said in the statement, which he posted alongside a link to the lecture in question.
Oops.
The dust-up appears to have stemmed from the young doctor’s confusion over Goldfarb’s pithy remarks explicating the difference between the basic English terms “insult” and “discrimination.”
I don’t want a doctor who confuses basic terms.
THEY’RE THE KKK IN A NEW FORM: VIDEO: Seattle-Area School Board Defends Segregating Meetings by Skin Color.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Video: Seattle-Area School Board Defends Segregating Meetings by Skin Color.
HAVE YOU NOTICED LEFTISTS ARE ALWAYS GOING AFTER PEOPLE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH? Seattle Antifa Leftists Target TV Reporter for Telling the Truth About Drugged Out ‘Homeless.’
KEEP THIS UP AND YOU’LL GET VIGILANTES AND DEATH SQUADS EVENTUALLY: Seattle bartender was slashed in the face, judge released the suspect without bail.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Fewer than 50 Seattle police officers working first watch for the whole city.
Multiple sources in the Seattle Police Department told The Post Millennial that sufficient staffing levels for a city as populated as Seattle should have no less than 250 officers on each watch.
However, according to those same sources, there were only 47 patrol officers working first watch on Friday, putting the department operating at only 18 percent capacity.
…
To paint a better picture of the dire situation, as the staffing crisis got worse during the “Defund the Police” movement, the department pulled police personnel from other departments–like detectives and traffic officers–and put them back on patrol.This means that staffing numbers are exceedingly low even after the department has utilized all available resources.
Previously: Seattle Defunds the Police Again. “Voters have rejected lawlessness, but the City Council isn’t listening.”
And: Seattle Republican Councilman Gaining Popularity for His ‘Refund the Police’ Initiative.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Seattle’s Nanny-State Soda Tax Backfired Spectacularly (And Hilariously) New Study Shows. “The good people of Seattle responded to a tax on sugary drinks by buying more beer. So, yes, Seattle’s policy may have successfully burdened its residents with a regressive tax and pushed them away from their first choice drinks. But it’s not at all apparent that it actually ‘improved the health of Seattle residents.’ Indeed, alcohol consumption carries a wide range of negative health consequences. And calorie-rich beer can actually contribute to obesity, the very problem this tax was supposed to address.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Seattle’s Transit System ‘Unusable’ due to Toxic Fentanyl, Meth Smoke.
The Times reported the transit system has become overloaded with reports of toxic fentanyl, meth smoke and volatile behavior. It has created a toxic work environment for employees and has scared off travelers.
In an attempt to turn things around, the city plans to release a new “Safety, Security and Fare Enforcement Initiative” in February. The initiative incorporates surveys and comments from 8,000 people.
The Times reports that plan hopes to improve the dangerous environment, welcome back commuters, but also show compassion to those who are doing drugs, and especially homeless people, as “a necessary step on its journey to becoming an anti-racist mobility agency” according to the King County website.
Translation: They’re doubling down on stupid.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Seattle’s Soda Tax Goes Horribly Wrong. “A study, comparing Seattle to Portland, the latter of which shockingly didn’t sign on to this dumb idea, finds that Seattleites have responded by switching from sugary sodas to beer. With alacrity. And why not? Sure, beer and wine are taxed, but not to the extent of sugary drinks are at 28 cents per 16 ounces. Greedy bastards.”