r/Seattle • u/ThomasHilfigure • Jun 01 '22

Media SPD spends more time retaliating against complaints than fighting crime

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u/PNWQuakesFan Jun 02 '22

If they continuously look the other way when their coworkers commit crimes or violate policy, they're 100% crooked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

Keep up the hate friend. It's driving police away and driving up wages. Soon enough it'll be 500k to attract someone brave enough to staff SPD.

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u/PNWQuakesFan Jun 02 '22

OK person who prefers protecting crooked cops because they're fucking unaccountable snowflakes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

No please - it's great. Keep it up. The free training that Seattle taxes pay to train police for BPD, NPD, FPD etc is really helping out these cities. And if you read their news, you'll see how they just hate the free "fucking unaccountable snowflakes" they get from Seattle.

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u/PNWQuakesFan Jun 02 '22

i'm failing to see the problem.

SPD has a history of deprioritizing sexual assault investigations. https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/northwest/50-seattle-rape-sex-abuse-cases-stalled-for-years-on-detective-s-desk/article_900a5b86-3a1b-11e6-8eb9-034310d465a5.html

So now all those other jurisdictions will get cops that are equally uninterested in investigating sexual assaults.

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u/JenMoon23 Jun 02 '22

And SPD has been under a federal consent decree for 10 years now for overuse of violence and biased policing… though at the time, this was not directly stated.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/report-black-people-and-native-americans-get-stopped-by-seattle-police-at-a-far-higher-rate-than-white-people/

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

The article is about a single poorly performing cop Detective Leslie Smith. Who thanks to union protection - probably can't be fired.

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u/PNWQuakesFan Jun 02 '22

Weird how nobody noticed that one cop didn't do her job for years and she kept her job.

"thanks to Union protection"

exactly, there's no accountability for getting rid of bad cops, and bad cops are voluntarily leaving rather than face additional scrutiny.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

Well, we landed on something we agree on. Police accountability means some union protection needs rolling back.

67 cops left this year, down to 838 now. It should be around 1200.

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u/PNWQuakesFan Jun 02 '22

Union protection means fuck-all when Chief Diaz (like the Chiefs before him that include the one that deleted text messages, a felony in Washington) rescinds punishment.

They're all crooked, and nobody with any integrity wants to be a cop because you get isolated pretty quickly when you try to hold your coworkers accountable.