Seattle jail closes booking area due to
staffing shortage
Posted By: Ron_lfp, 7/12/2022 11:26:22 AM
The King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) in Washington state closed the booking area at their Seattle jail on Sunday night due to a lack of staff. (snip) "By closing the booking area, anyone arrested by a police agency in King County for a crime like DUI, domestic violence assault, or even felony charges like murder or rape (snip) Corrections Guild is very concerned about the impact this will have on the region's public safety. "With violent crime at an all-time high and murders happening almost daily in King County, the jails must remain open for violent offenders (snip) must be off the street."CORRECTION*
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The King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) in Washington state closed the booking area at their Seattle jail on Sunday night due to a lack of staff. (snip) "By closing the booking area, anyone arrested by a police agency in King County for a crime like DUI, domestic violence assault, or even felony charges like murder or rape (snip) Corrections Guild is very concerned about the impact this will have on the region's public safety. "With violent crime at an all-time high and murders happening almost daily in King County, the jails must remain open for violent offenders (snip) must be off the street."CORRECTION*
The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a person’s race, and law enforcement’s long history of discrimination against people of color, should be taken into account when determining the legality of police seizures.
The court also clarified state law to say police have seized a person if an objective observer would conclude that the person was not free to leave or refuse a request. But, the court wrote, that “objective observer” must be aware that discrimination and biases “have resulted in disproportionate police contacts, investigative seizures, and uses of force against Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.”
Google Maps contract employees who are required to return to their office in Washington state recently circulated a petition to keep working from home since some cannot afford their commutes, presenting another challenge to Google’s plan to refill offices and restore campus life.
The issue affects more than 200 workers who are employed by outsourcing firm Cognizant Technology Solutions, which mandated that they work in an office in Bothell five days a week starting June 6. The workers play an essential role updating routes and destinations on Google Maps, a service used by more than 1 billion people a month.
Recently the freshman Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis was listening to a discussion on the extreme rise in gun violence in the city, and some simple questions were raised that he realized he didn’t know concrete answers to.
Who’s doing the shooting, and where? (snip) What Lewis found is that more than 18% of all shots-fired incidents in Seattle last year were associated with homelessness, according to police records. (snip) Probably nobody on his committee would have guessed that homelessness and the encampments were a bigger associating factor with Seattle’s shooting epidemic than gang activity
Former Washington Husky and Reign goalkeeper Hope Solo was taken into police custody Thursday in North Carolina and charged with impaired driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse.
A Winston-Salem police spokeswoman told The Seattle Times that Solo was arrested at a Walmart parking lot and taken to the Forsyth County jail (snip) Solo, 40, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist who helped the United States women’s soccer team win the World Cup in 2015.
The Richland native starred with the Washington Huskies (1999-2002) before rising to acclaim during a 13-year professional career
More than 100 Seattle Public Schools students walked out of class Monday morning to protest the district’s decision to end the requirement that students and staff wear masks.
Many of those students rallied at district headquarters, the John Stanford Center, to ask Superintendent Brent Jones to reinstate the mask mandate districtwide. Mask requirements for Seattle and most other districts in the state ended a week ago.
BELLEVUE — Kindergarten teacher Betzabeth Alvarado-Jurista counted just four bare faces in her class of 18 kids on Monday morning, not including her own.
It was a slightly surprising outcome on the first day masks were optional in Washington state schools (snip) The Seattle Education Association accused the district of violating its memorandum of understanding with teachers (snip) The Seattle Student Union, a group of student advocates across the district, is threatening to walk out of school next Monday if the district doesn’t reinstate the mask mandate.
Amazon.com is temporarily removing workers from a downtown Seattle office so employees don’t have to travel to an area that’s seen a spate of shootings, carjackings and other violent crimes. (snip) The office at 300 Pine St. in the old Macy’s building is about three blocks from Pike Place Market, a popular Seattle tourist destination. Since Feb. 21, there have been at least three shootings, two stabbings and one carjacking in the area, according to information from the Seattle Police Department’s Twitter account.
After two years of death threats and other personal attacks from far-left militant activists angry over his news coverage of the Seattle-area crime scene, KOMO-TV reporter Jonathan Choe is opening up about what some local journalists are facing – on and off the job.
Choe is well known to his viewers and Dori Monson Show listeners for bold stories connecting drug use, crime, and homelessness. (snip) despite ongoing personal attacks from Antifa and other anonymous vigilante groups. (snip) Many of these activists can be found blocking city crews trying to clean up illegal encampments and keep news reporters from covering the story.
With Mediterranean-style seafood menu and breath-taking views of downtown Seattle, Westward restaurant sits on prime waterfront real estate in the Lake Union neighborhood. (Snip) Even after a recent sweep by city crews, Northlake Way remains jam packed with dozens of RVs and vehicles that have homeless people living inside. (snip) That’s why a few weeks ago, Westward’s building owner Mark Grey and some other area businesses bought massive concrete slabs known as ecology or "eco" blocks at a cost of $20 a piece.
At the height of Seattle’s racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department’s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter activist organization and researched relocating the station’s operations, newly released documents show.
That June, as cops lobbed tear gas from behind barricades, and protesters on the streets surrounding the precinct called for the Police Department to be defunded, Durkan’s office behind the scenes briefly contemplated handing over the multimillion property that had become the focus of the demonstrations.
Lynnwood, WA - In the past week, a pirate-themed bar in Lynnwood has lost staff, bands and customers — over a show with advertised discounted prices for people sick with COVID-19. The Vessel Taphouse posted on Facebook on Jan. 21 that people should “Come see the show, maybe catch the virus or just stay home and whine,” The (Everett) Herald reported. The post also said people could enter the bar for a discounted rate with proof of an “Omicron positive test.” Owner Steve Hartley said four employees quit CORRECTIONS*
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want to see the Supreme Court abolished,
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In addition, 54 percent of young people aged 19 to 39 concur, regardless of their political association.
The survey of 1,025 U.S. voters was divided among party lines, with 53 percent of Democrats in favor of abolishing the current Supreme Court and replacing it with a “new, democratically elected . . . court with justices chosen by the American people directly,” and 33 percent “strongly” in favor. Only 21 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of independents favored the ill-advised proposition.
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King County is hundreds short on both police and jail officers. New sheriff doesn't care.