Surgeon General Vivek Murthy goes on a bike ride-along with Seattle police.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy goes on a bike ride-along with Seattle police. SPD

Seattle Police Reverse Another Overdose: For the eleventh time since they began carrying Naloxone in March, bike officers found a man suffering from an apparent overdose in the street and stopped it using the drug. Meanwhile, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy visited the department and praised the program. "Let’s be clear that the opioid epidemic is a full-blown public health crisis," Murthy said.

Do Neighborhood Private Security Patrols Decrease Crime? No.

SUV Gets Stuck on Queen Anne Stairs: "Police who responded to a 911 call came upon a bizarre scene overnight," KOMO reports, "an SUV had become stuck after driving down a flight of stairs in a Queen Anne neighborhood." Nobody was hurt.

Police Harassing Black and Brown Youth: A new poll says "two-thirds of young African-Americans and 4 in 10 Hispanics say that they or someone they know has experienced violence or harassment at the hands of the police," the AP reports. "That includes about 2 in 10 in each group who say that was a personal experience, including about 3 in 10 black men who say the same."

Renewed Effort to Ban Assault Rifles in Washington: "Supporters of the ban believe that, in a liberal bastion like Washington—where gay marriage and recreational marijuana won early approval —people will most likely support modest steps to reduce gun violence," Crosscut reports.

What Was That Smell on Tuesday Morning? It came from the smoke running off from a fire in Pierce County, KUOW reports. Now you know.

Immigrants in Washington Paid $8.1 Billion in Taxes That's according to a new report on "outsize" contributions by immigrants to the state's economy. Eighteen percent of the state's 930,000 immigrants are entrepreneurs, and they're employed at higher rates than the general population. (#FDT.)

Attorney General Bob Ferguson Is Suing Comcast for $100 Million: Did you miss that? Seattlish likens him to Batman.

Obama Commutes 214 Sentences: Mostly of non-violent drug offenders. As a friend of mine on Facebook says, "Clemency for 214 people convicted of low level drug offenses is the very, very tip of the iceberg... The federal prison system is more than 200,000 people, with 50% serving time on drug crimes and another 17,000 people serving time for immigration crimes, mostly just coming back to the U.S. to be with family after deportation. POTUS could do a tremendous amount to lower federal incarceration rates by further deprioritizing drug prosecutions and stopping the ridiculous use of federal courts to prosecute migrants."