For another take on the judge's action:

http://crosscut.com/2016/08/black-lives-…

If the SPOG doesn't want to negotiate in good faith, which they won't, then the easiest thing to do, is to let the contract expire. Let them work without a contract. We shall see soon enough which police officers are here to service the community, and which ones are here to line their pockets.

The city has just not been deeply serious about changing things. Very happy to see Hobart reminding them he can drop the hammer.

Contract expired a while back Norm

20% of the populace? Hardly! ( and I can't help but notice that the vast majority of killer pigs are White guys who did not grow up in diverse communities--this ties in with the purging of Reds and "Nigger lovers" in unions during the Second Red Scare: make unions anti-Prog again like the "good old days" . . . .

The whole entire problem here is that the city government has historically been willing to negotiate away its power to safeguard civil rights.

To wit, here's some text taken verbatim (emphasis added) from an internal OPA memo written a few years back:

"The OPA process, governed by stringent procedural processes prescribed by the collective bargaining agreement, is particularly unsuited to conducting fact gathering relating to potential civil claims against officers individually or against the city in general..."

(And in case anyone wonders about the context in which those words were written, the purpose of the memo was to justify letting two SPD officers off the hook for a clear-cut civil rights violation.)

So, yeah -- police chiefs can come and go, OPA directors can come and go, but the legal handicaps imposed on the accountability process are enshrined in the policy and the law of the city of Seattle because the Seattle Police Officers Guild sees to it, and our city government lets them.

Wouldn't it be just amazing if some hero, operating outside of our city government, beyond the reach of local political opposition, could somehow put an end to the city's habit of bargaining away the safeguards that protect our civil rights?

Wow how about this let the Cops stay home take the month off and see how you liberal idiots fare. I came to your state last year and though it looks pretty it us s very dangerous place .
When you can't even walk around or go out to dinner with out being pestered by drug addicts and homeless individuals who just roam around because they are afforded that right yet you complain when they are outside of your business's. The fact if the matter is the judge was incorrect the population based on race and sex for officer involved shootings is not correct 41% is not at all accurate and asshat should have done some research prior to spouting off about something he knows nothing about .