The Seattle Police Department recently performed a study that found that 50 people in Belltown were responsible for* over 2700 arrests. We know that we can’t arrest our way out of this problem. If we could, it would have been solved a long time ago. – SPD Blog
On August 30th, shortly after 2:00 am, North Precinct officers responded to a 911 call from a man who claimed that unknown people were outside his door attempting to enter his apartment in the 14100 Block of Linden Avenue North. When officers arrived, the man who called 911 kicked the door from the inside and [...]
What it looks like to me is a picture of someone who is either deceased or pretending to be deceased. It looks like it could be a crime scene, but like an onion there will be a lot of layers to something like this. – Officer’s Facebook Page Pic Draws Fire The men were charged [...]
It’s not so often that I have an opportunity to dine on the sweet flesh of corvus corvidae (no accident though I remain human and I do sometimes fail to apply that in dubiis non est agendum maxim) – so here goes: the most likely suspect in the recent killing of a Seattle police officer [...]
Today’s lesson of the day: you can probably survive being shot (particularly if you do not go into shock unnecessarily) – but if you can avoid being shot, you should probably try that first. Do this: You’ve Been Shot Other than a cranial vault shot, you can survive most wounds if you get focused, get [...]
A veteran Seattle police officer was fatally shot Saturday night as he and a rookie officer sat in their patrol car in the Central District. The officer who was killed was identified as Tim Brenton, 39, a nine-year veteran of the Seattle Police Dept. . . . “This is an assassination and every resource is [...]
Working night shift at the building at in it’s not uncommon to see people hiding out smoking glass pipes (highly doubt they’re hiding out to smoke tobacco) and engaging in prostitution in the back alley when I go out for a cigarette break. All very true – just saw a male crackhead performing [...]
via Arbroath Pity I don’t speak Kiwi. What’s he saying, exactly? Always blow on the pie! Update: 27D – Interview via Area Trace No Search
Thursday’s SPD blotter reads like something out of an action flick: On October 22nd at approximately 4:53 a.m. police and fire department personnel responded to a fire at a city maintenance facility located in the 700 block of South Charles Street. City employees who were working on site saw a suspicious male subject walking inside [...]
via TYWKIWBI You have to get into their mindset, the way they’re thinking, and have a discussion with them. . . . Video tapes are wonderful things. I use a tape recorder. … they talk, and this is how I do it: I bring the tape recorder in and say, “Look I’m gonna use this [...]
