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Notice how nobody, not Murray, not Bailey, not the council, not the officers themselves, and certainly not the public, knows whether the officers in question have been disciplined or not.
Murray's learning how to administrate on the job, which is not good in a situation like this. Lost the paperwork? That didn't work when I was in eighth grade.
Screw Pugel, Bailey, and Murray; bring in the DOJ immediately.
To quote the immortally quotable Pulp Fiction: Ed's Dead Baby...Ed's Dead....
And fuck Chief Bailey who is either incompetent or a liar.
@9, I'll get on board with healing when the leadership does. Until then I see no evidence that Bailey is anything but part of the problem.
We eat Mayors & Police Chiefs for breakfast!
Or they did, and he said nope I didn't do that?
Seriously, he may be in Siberia, but he ain't dead. Verifying what he did or didn't do is pretty damn simple. The fact they're saying they don't know because they can't find the paperwork speaks volumes.
Until we all realize that we - the people of Seattle - are the only ones who can fix this rather than expecting some savior to fix SPD for us, this shit is just going to keep happening.
I was surprised to read last week that Chris Christie got his job as USA in NJ in 2001 because he had raised a lot of money for Bush before the election. He had a law degree, but zero experience as a prosecutor. Does Durkan have a track record?
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So, gay mafia? I'm only half joking. Seems like she and Murray better beat feet to get ahead of this thing, or they'll both be pretty badly singed.
Levi Pulkkinen's piece in the Seattle P.I. on Dec. 16, 2011 for recap. "We don't have a whole lot of faith that the Department of Justice or the city will do much," said the NAACP at the time.
Uh, thanks for googling that for me.
I didn't know she's gay--I knew she has at least one child, so I foolishly assumed she's straight. But yeah, that makes me wonder about her association with Murray. As for her appointment, it looks like she has a lot of public service and may have been a trial lawyer before her appointment, but she doesn't appear to have had any prior experience as a prosecutor. I wonder how typical that is with USAs.
That's newsworthy either way. Is Mayor Ed Murray's appointee Interim Police Chief Harry Bailey dishonest or simply incompetent?
"and [I'm inclined also to believe] that Murray put [Bailey] in then backed him up because he found [Bailey] easier to communicate with than [former Interim Chief Jim] Pugel."
That's not surprising. Pugel is smart and well-spoken. Listen to Bailey talk and look at how Murray writes. They may be good leaders and they may be bad leaders, but neither Bailey nor Murry has demonstrated the level of professional communication skill I expect from people in their positions.
BTW stop looking at John Urquhart that way. You can't have him. He's ours.