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Seattle Police Department is changing its policies and standards

gogodawgs

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Another video surfaces....

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/...taunts-profanity-135790378.html?tab=video&c=y

"This badge is the only thing preventing me from skull ----ing you and dragging you down the street," one of the officers can be heard saying in the video."


Again, I call for the immediate resignation or firing of Chief Diaz and the systematic resignation of all top brass of the SPD within the next 3 years. The SPD are thugs, they are a street gang at least 20% of the time according the the Obama DOJ.
 
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I like this quote:

Drago noted. "It's an entrenched problem that's been ongoing for years. It's been raised over and over again and hasn't been resolved."
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If the system cannot effectively police itself, then it cannot effectively police fellow citizens.

If the system cannot reform itself, what reasonable expectation can we have that it can reform criminals.
 
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Dave_pro2a said:
Apparently lack of class is an institutional problem within the SPD.

"That ain't my problem." http://www.komonews.com/news/local/...ing-crash-victim-135908093.html?tab=video&c=y

Mocking foreign accents, mocking a guy who was seriously injured -- SNAFU for the inglorious SPD.
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I said it before, and I will say it again.

I demand the immediate resignation of Chief Diaz or the immediate firing of Chief Diaz by Mayor McGinn. I demand the dismantling of the top brass of the SPD over the next 3 years.
 
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Was driving home and heard a report on the news about one of the issues the DOJ uncovered. The person reiterated what we here all know, that if a Police officer has no reason to believe a crime is being committed, and we don't want to talk to him, it's "tough stuff". Apparently this was an issue for many officers who rather than saying "OK, have a nice day" when they were told to "buzz off", decided to escalate and use force. The DOJ evidently has made this a big deal in their report.
 
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gogodawgs said:
I said it before, and I will say it again.

I demand the immediate resignation of Chief Diaz or the immediate firing of Chief Diaz by Mayor McGinn. I demand the dismantling of the top brass of the SPD over the next 3 years.
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That's great, and I agree with you, but they don't read this thread (and wouldn't care about your demand for their resignation if they did). You're preaching to the choir again :p
 
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antispam540 said:
That's great, and I agree with you, but they don't read this thread (and wouldn't care about your demand for their resignation if they did). You're preaching to the choir again :p
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Oh, I have posted on the seattletimes.com and seattlepi.com websites. I have also sent an email to the Mayor and city council. I will continue to do so with every new article either paper posts.
 
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Let's hope the change brings someone other than a party that's been "marinated" in the old ways that got the Dept in trouble.

Of course there are all sorts of "factions" that have to be satisfied. That means that a candidate for chief will be a multi-racial gay woman with a hispanic surname that came up through the ranks.

Maybe it's time to do away with the Chief having to be a sworn officer. Make him a citizen "Manager of Public Safety" and then he can hire Police officers to do the Policing.
 
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amlevin said:
Let's hope the change brings someone other than a party that's been "marinated" in the old ways that got the Dept in trouble.

Of course there are all sorts of "factions" that have to be satisfied. That means that a candidate for chief will be a multi-racial gay woman with a hispanic surname that came up through the ranks.

Maybe it's time to do away with the Chief having to be a sworn officer. Make him a citizen "Manager of Public Safety" and then he can hire Police officers to do the Policing.
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Let's not forget such candidate must also come from a disadvantaged upbringing, suffered abuse, former drug user, preferably done time too... And be vehemently anti gun of course. You know, so the candidate can relate to those poor oppressed 99%ers while going after the real criminals... Law abiding armed citizens who are undermining the need for her would be underlings!


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