Can you just get this activist off the story already? It's turning I to a sad, unfunny joke.

How will not building a new jail improve the issue of racial disparity in our justice system?

Please, oh please wont someone think of the violent law breaking children!!

King county wasn't named after MLK. That was a very recent, meaningless, feel-good change, and is immaterial to both the history of the county and this story.

@1 it's just so hard to find good help these days, isn't it?

@2 Somebody said that it was like pulling the leaves off of a tree you want to cut down.

Essentially useless.

These activists are awful and would rather see murderous teenagers do time in adult prison or in a distinctly rundown juvenile prison, than a freshly made and update juvenile system.

Note: try a solution that works.

Seattle Process answer to everything. Delay and write more studies and statements with little to no meaningful change of outcome, except rising cost.

Since it isn't going to affect whether or not it's built, and isn't going to affect design or construction, why can't Licata motion for his Racial Impact Statement concurrently?

@3 Once again, no answers and no solutions. When folks like you have to stoop to things like mocking the other side for having facts while presenting no solutions you support, you look like fucking idiots.

Can just a single person who doesn't want this thing built give a single concrete alternative? Just one? I don't understand why this is so difficult.

Look, I don't really have a dog in this fight, and I completely recognize how terrible the police/prison/industrial complex is, especially for minority groups.

One side shows this building in absolute disrepair and shows a number of different initiatives over several years that has reduced the youth jail population over the short and the long terms. The other side responds with LOL CHARTZ it's really hard to take those opposed to this project seriously.

As much as I am amused by Licata and O'Brien's white guilt whimpering, this story seems played.

Until this is all worked out the most violent criminals should stay with Ansel.

Why would a fast-growing county reduce the number of electoral districts? (perhaps watering down the vote is the main purpose? --- http://www.fairvote.org ).