Does the police report actually list which bar(s?) they were found in front of? If so, how come it's not mentioned?

Dan, for a second I thought you were being sincere, rather than facetious. And I was very, very confused.

Note to self: Read the headline first.

Like the Stranger's reporters' heads aren't just as far up your asses as Balter's. Why don't you report about the difference between McGinn's bullshit campaign promises on community policing, and the new no-cost, do-nothing policy he's stumbled upon now that he's in office?

At least we have PubliCola.

@6: then comment there! we won't miss you.

You're right, she is just the kind of moron who'd take a shooting murder bullet flying death of a kid and reduce it to another cheap shot between semi-journalists squabbling over a pet elected.

@ 6 - i'm sure McGinn would love to fund the community policing model - if Nickels and the City Council hadn't completely ignored economic development and relied on the real estate bubble (and the concomitant real estate excise tax revenue bubble) to pay for everything for the last 8 years. where, exactly, does the money come from?

Yeah but Dan, you can't really act like a normal citizen, everyone knows who you are, you're a celebrity no hobo is gonna take your Jimmy John's bag and throw it in your face.

I was down in Belltown this weekend.

God the Suburban Times are such pussies.

@9

First, no he campaigned saying community policing needed to be funded. Now he's saying they can somehow deliver community policing without funding it. You're giving him credit for being honest about budget realities, and he isn't.

Second, why didn't he pay attention while Nickels and the city council supposedly made his plans impossible? Did he only just start worrying about where the money comes from after he took office?

And third, the money needs to come from fixing Seattle's fiscal mess, which ultimately means replacing sales taxes with income tax. That would require visionary leadership, political genius and the ability to work well with county and state leaders. At the very least we need higher sales taxes or budget cuts, which McGinn is waiting for someone else to figure out for him so he doesn't have to get involved. McGinn has no vision or leadership other than a vision of lots of dudes riding bikes to work.

An honest newspaper would notice the fact that we lack a skilled politician and visionary leader at a time when we could really use one.