Ha! "More cops" my ass. SPD has always sucked. Now they're overpaid too.

Cops suspended for slow shooting response.

If SPD is taking 20mins to respond to an actual, confirmed shooting at a Pilar night spot, then how can Harrell justify a contract with ShotSpotter to send cops goose-chasing phantom false-alarm non-shootings at random locations?

I’d guess the dance team rehearses outside of their normal shift so it wouldn’t impact service.
Is this a worse thing than nurses making tik-tok dance videos during the plague when they said they were so overworked?

Driving yourself to Harborview after being shot is a good way to avoid a really expensive ambulance ride. Go USA.

@5 Why would an increase in the total number of SPD officers result in reduced response time if the officers we have decide whether a Priority 1 call is actually a real priority based on their feelings?

Hey, if women and girls can't get safe, legal abortions and birth control anymore, I'm all for dick control.
This, and men lobbying for men passing laws that serve only men and insisting on making all the decisions are the root of the human overpopulation problem.
Let's not stop at just offensive statues. Let's whack 'em off all the male RWNJs, KKKorporate Orange Turd lovin' RepubliKKKan neofascists, Taliban, rapists, and incestuous sex predators, too. I hope it hurts 'em. They deserve it for flushing the Earth and all other life forms down the toilet.

@5: SPD recruitment is down because of systematic men's locker room corruption, racism, and misogyny, raindrop dear. Until this gun-crazed, violent LE shitshow changes for any better we will have to take the law into our own hands, like the gunshot victim who had to drive himself to Harborview Medical Center.
Sadly, it is no wonder as to why Morty no longer posts cop-related comments on SLOG, anymore. He must be reeling from embarrassment every time there is a mass shooting that cops---working within the Seattle city limits or elsewhere--- just shrug off.

The police failure to respond story is very telling. Essentially the trainee is a much better police officer than the TWO 17 year veterans who state either a) that they have psychic powers or b) they don't know why didn't respond. ( b was the trainer... heh heh). Give the trainee a few years of "experience" and they won't respond either.
Nothing could more clearly illustrate how corrupt SPD has become. Also interesting to note that they were lounging at SPOG headquarters while they weren't responding. SPOG must go.

My heartfelt condolences to Yulia Navalny and your friends and family, over your husband, Alexei Navalny's murder. Rest in peace, Alexei. Vladimir Putin is a heartless global terrorist and the Orange Turd is his willing sock puppet.

I sympathize with the hiker who had to be taken to Harborview from Snoqualmie Pass for injuries from a cougar attack. This is another reminder, however, to use common sense. For those of us who seek nature's solace in the mountains: the higher we venture up in the hills, the more we risk facing wildlife. They are losing their homes to the human overpopulation. Don't expect them to be happy about it.
There was also a report of a six month old cougar kitten? Did the hikers get between a mother and her young?

@10 Just checking in. You seem to always think that the solution to response times is more officers. Now that it's been demonstrated that /training officers/ deliberately slow-walked a shots-fired response, how do you feel about the best approach to improving response times?

@16 Do you not even have the courage of your convictions to answer a question yourself? Why outsource to Bing? But then even Bing agrees that training and objective criteria for response are necessary. Given that the 17-year veterans who slow-walked this were training the new guy (see also @14) to also slow-walk a response, I'm not holding my breath for SPD to get their shit together.

@15 If 97% of 911 reports by humans are wrong, what makes you think that Shotspotter will be better?

@19 raindrop and his latest MAGA trainee, @20 Cap'n Crunch: Congratulations, both of you. Your futile arguments only prove that Big Tech is out to get us. KKKorporate billionaires, in their race to the bottom for the last U.S dollar, can't wait to become trillionaires, owning everyone and everything. Climate change be damned!
Are you two really that eager to become among the first human guinea pigs to have your flesh, body parts, and brain tissue replaced by robotic cogs and gears?
Profiteering KKKorporations don't want to actually pay human employees, anymore. CEOs won't be satisfied until every last human being is reprogrammed to march in GOP / KGB lockstep 24/7.

rumor is that Navalny actually died from Putin Resistance Syndrome

@22 flotsam: Don't be another of raindrop's MAGA misinformed, Kool-Aid chugging recruits. Obviously, the late Alexei Navalny preferred to die while fighting Vladimir Putin's ruthless global tyranny.
Quit pandering to SLOG's resident troll now before your brain tissue turns to Malt-o-Meal.

@22: I hope you were only being sarcastic. This dying planet is getting more dystopian by the day.

It took them over three years to dock those SPD officers a shift's pay for their slow response? That's pretty slack for a paramilitary organization.

@19 So you're willing to take the time to type into Bing, then copy and paste the results, but you're not willing to say what your own opinion is. That, sir, is a true profile in courage. Good job!

Since you want to work from an academic direction, please identify the academic sources that Bing used to develop its response. Oh, right. That might be rough since nobody knows. OK, then, go ahead and post up any academic sources that discuss the intersection of police staffing, response times, training, and police deciding not to respond.

Ignore my comment @27 - the Times article linked to said the shooting took place 12/19/2020, instead of 12/19/2022.

@17: Problems with cougars? Just leave a few footballs lying around. That'll scare them away.

I’m sorry but who the fuck uses bing.com? Haha

Raindrop, you’re not only a bad person but completely out of touch.

Another triumph of plodding reform plus defund. My respect for SPD has hit a level not seen since WTO.

Will the last officer out of SPD please tell the city to just start over, already?

'Two cops who
respectively made
$211,000 and $315,000 in 2022'

gosh!
defunding
the Po-po's
been very Bad
for Po-poing. can
we offer them Bonuses?

if they're
not too
Busy

$1,200 fucking
Dollars PER DAY?

can someone
Defund ME?

speaking of
"Genocide"

Protest Actions
Against Israel’s Genocide
Continue Around the World

Solidarity protests with Gaza took place around the world again this weekend, including in London, England, where tens of thousands of people streamed through city streets. In India, workers with the Water Transport Workers Federation have vowed not to load or unload weapons to Israel, saying they “always stand against the war and killing of innocent people.”

In the U.S., the African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishops Council called on the Biden administration to end funding for what it called Israel’s “mass genocide.” In Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of the U.S. Congress, is urging Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in next Tuesday’s presidential primary to protest President Biden’s complicity in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/19/headlines/protest_actions_against_israels_genocide_continue_around_the_world

‘them Protestors
ain’t Nuthin’ but a
damn Focus Group!’

--gee dubya bush just prior to Invading
TWO Sovereign Nations in the Middle East

“they’re Bloody
INCONVENIENT!”
--a lotta tS’s
Commentariat

Hell --
it can only be
Genocide IF the
Genociders agree
On the Term & they’re
a Murderous, Picky af bunch
when it comes to Grammar Naziing

butwhattabout
the Domicide?
you may ask

an Impertinent
query too Unimportant
for Serious People to address

movealong

@26 Garb Garblar: +1 Agreed. Add the Orange Turd alongside Vladimir Putin to be skinned alive, dipped in acid, drawn and quartered, and both their putrid remains fed to pigs--after they've butt-fucked each other in a pool stocked with piranha. Of course, I'm still being too kind.

@34 tensora, and @35 & @36 kristofarian: If my regards for the SPD and SPOG were any lower they'd be underground.

Why were he cops hanging at the union hall while on duty? Why would anyone want to hang out there in the first place? The whole place screams “Look at me! I’m a butthurt wannabe victim”

@40: “Why were he cops hanging at the union hall while on duty?”

Exactly. In the union jobs I’ve had, we never went to our union hall during work hours; in fact, both the union and the employer demanded complete separation between work time and union time.

@29 Noted that you provide no evidence to back up your position. So per @19 I'm supposed to approach this from an academic perspective, but you can just float your feelings. Double standard much?

@1 ftw.

Oh, and never bike near cliffs or trees in areas with cougars and bobcats, it's a good way to get attacked

Thanks @auntiegrizelda for pointing this out. WDFW has not confirmed yet (they seem reluctant to use the word "kitten") but this was indeed likely a 6-month-old kitten. This kind of aggressive behavior rises when too many mother cougars are killed and kittens are left to fend for themselves.

@39a: Newsflash: MAGA, FOX TeeVee, RWNJs, Twitter / X, the NRA, and the KGB are infinitely grosser, raindrop dear. Akin to Adolf Hitler, the Orange Turd and Vladimir Putin are both beyond evil, corrupt, sick, and Schadenfreude level cruel. Their deaths deserve to be as fully grotesque as possible, and go viral. What's left of the world would cheer.
I'll tell you what. I'll munch on popcorn and dark chocolate, sipping good red wine while you bury your head in the sand. Eat your paste before it hardens, raindrop dear.

@43 Will in Seattle +1 Agreed: @1 DOUG for the WIN!!
And also agreed regarding hiking up in mountainous areas filled with cougars, bobcats, wolves, bears, etc.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people react as if wildlife encountered on nature hikes is equivalent to domesticated household pets, or caged animals they saw at Woodland Park, Point Defiance, or any other Zoo.

@45 porkupine: You are most welcome. Mention of a six month old cougar kitten caught my attention.
Similar consequences have happened when humans, whether intentionally or not, have gotten between
a mother bear and her cub. Mess with nature, pay the price. Right now Mother Nature has every right to be pissed at humankind.

@42 boatgeek: Our resident SLOG troll, raindrop, routinely gets so dizzy from chasing his tail and chugging the MAGA Kool-Aid, he doesn't know what he's posting half the time.