Does Jennifer Albright mean the Amazon distribution center in Kent?

Yes, it's all Amazon's fault! Everything that's ever gone wrong or ever will go wrong in this city is now Amazon's fault, it seems.

Working in a jail is a high stress, high risk job for not that great of pay. Strong union, decent benefits, but there’s a reason so many OT hours are clocked.

And getting through the hiring process is a royal bitch. Extensive background checks, long waiting periods, multiple interviews at different levels of bureaucracy.

PLUS, you get to hang around shitbags all day? Wonder why they can’t fill those positions.

"Imagine being a cop who works their was [sic] off to actually combat the rampant property crime we have here, only to see all of your cases get dumped" said a commenter who claimed to be in LE. I guess his attempted point is that a cop's work satisfaction is diminished when the evidence he gathered does not merit prosecution by those who make the decisions? Even if true, so what? Read your job description and abide by it. You do not define your own job parameters as a cop.

Cops should be fired for this type of attitude. The cases they work are not their personal properties. If laws change, or directives change, cops have to change with them. A cop who is feeling personal ownership of a criminal case(s) has lost objectivity, and that is the point when a cop will stop playing by the rules. And stop making quality decisions. Personal investment in a criminal case will allow the cop's personal prejudices to infect the investigation and poison the well. Worst case scenario the cop will make an ethical mistake that allows the guilty to go free.

If a project you spent time on in your office gets suddenly cancelled, when are your ongoing personal feelings about how hard you worked on the project and how great it might have turned out ever a concern? "The CFO insists this project is no longer valid and must be cancelled, but Copper Joe really likes this project, so out of concern for his feelings, we will just leave it open for him to wast time on."

No you are in the business of doing what you are hired to do. Your personal projections onto the work

@4: Jesus, your work life must be miserable if these are your attitudes. You sound like a robot.

@3 "And getting through the hiring process is a royal bitch. Extensive background checks, long waiting periods, multiple interviews at different levels of bureaucracy."

Totally. It's a wonder Amazon gets anyone hired at all. Wait ... what?

Yesterday, I saw an advertisement on the side of a public bus (Sound Transit or Pierce, likely; this was in Tacoma) for jobs as a jailer. It had simply drawn illustrations of people skiing in mountains, and said something like, "skier on the weekend, jailer during the week." The job title was Confinement Engineer or Correction Officiant or something like that, but I understood it to mean jailer.

I wondered to what kind of asshole (who enjoys skiing on the weekends) a job as a jailer appealed, then felt bad that anyone would be so desperate as to consider such a job, then realized that it reportedly comes with money and leisure time of the sort that facilitates downhill skiing, imagined all the peace officer rejects and otherwise-untrained ex-soldiers around, got off the other bus, and walked home.

When citizens are arrested they are held in jail unless they have money, so wealthy people can go, but poor people cannot. This is not "innocent until proven guilty," this is how poor people are forced into the homess popularion; by the time it's their turn they've lost their job and place to live, their car gets reppoed and their kids put into foster care. Of course this not only costs the department of "corrections," it increases costs to the other departments who provide assistance, shelter, foster care and counseling a family will need that's been victimized by "peace keepers." But they won't release anyone on their on recognizance uf they can help it, because then procecuters wouldn't have any leverage to force a plea "bargain" down their throughts, which is why 96% of all imprisoned Americans NEVER GOT A TRIAL. 96%! What a scam!!!

So stop bitching about the problem that you created! If we can't afford to disenfranchise our residents by locking them u6p when they are supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty."

When citizens are arrested they are held in jail unless they have money, so wealthy people can go, but poor people cannot. This is not "innocent until proven guilty," this is how poor people are forced into the homess population; by the time it's their turn they've lost their job and place to live, their car gets repoed and their kids put into foster care. Of course this not only costs the department of "corrections," it increases costs to other departments who provide assistance, shelter, foster care and counselling a family will need that's been victimized by "peace keepers."

But they won't release anyone on their on recognizance if they can help it, because then procecuters wouldn't have any leverage to force a plea "bargain" down their throughts, which is why 96% of all imprisoned Americans NEVER GOT A TRIAL. 96%! What a scam!!!

So jailers should stop bitching about the problem that they create! If they can't afford to disenfranchise residents by locking them up when they are supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty," they should stop arresting so many of us. Duh!

If a person had a choice, what kind of person who choose to spend their employed hours working with society's losers and screw-ups, on top of lawyers and cells with bars. Loud, hostile, ugly, horrible life. Is there a more dreary and depressing job? Can't Amazon just send over some robots to do the work of the guards? There, problem solved.

I'm all for not holding low-level offenders, in theory. I even voted for it in CA. The results have been mixed. There is a huge surge in nuisance crime. Now ppl that break into cars, steal packages, shoot up in public, walk out of stores with an armload of goods, etc, don't suffer any inconvenience. Another arrest on their record means nothing, and the community doesn't get a breather from their activities while they are in jail. The police are demoralized because their efforts to enforce the law amount to nothing. Not sure what the solution is, but it can be frustrating to live where nuisance crimes are no longer crimes. Maybe some rule about frequency of offences.

”According to Jennifer Albright, program manager for the King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention, Amazon's hiring process is likely less strict than King County's.”

HOLY SHIT MY SIDES HURT

PS: Does anyone seriously think that Seattle’s problem is being too strict on property crimes?

That's cool. It won't reduce the punishment I will mete out to anyone committing crimes of my property.

Will someone please think of the property!!