Props for finally addressing Bick's work & the ongoing failures of our police accountability system.

The link for this South Seattle Emerald article:

     "just this week, the South Seattle Emerald reported on the City investigating Meyerberg for possibly violating many state laws by sharing a client’s confidential medical information" which should be: https://southseattleemerald.com/2022/03/08/city-hires-outside-agency-to-investigate-former-opa-dir-spd-after-oig-bows-out/

got swapped with the link for this article:

      " At the end of last year, the South Seattle Emerald reported corruption within this system of checks and balances" which should be: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/12/07/investigating-oig-complaint-in-city-councils-court-but-scc-isnt-acting/

For all of Bick's work see: https://hjgale.tumblr.com/post/668337923167485952/2021-2022-articles-by-carolyn-bick-on-the-failures

For more info on how to get out of this cluster-fuck-from-hell see: SeattleSTOP.org

Worth noting that there are TWO whistle-blowers from the OIG: astounding given that it is a small 10-14 person agency which is less than 4 years old.

Also worth noting that the person who is rubber stamping investigations at the OIG is a former police officer and has not been fired.

Here is my full comment to the Public Safety Committee on Tuesday March 8th:

"The first agenda item this morning is a discussion on the search process for a new OPA director.
Yet, it is the Mayor who has complete control over the hiring, the evaluation, and the firing of the OPA director.
The same mayor who has made the last OPA director, Andrew Myerberg, his director of public safety, despite Myerberg's long history of corruption and malfeasance.
There is a new investigation published this morning, in the South Seattle Emerald, revealing further evidence of his malfeasance, corruption, and abuse of office.

In the 20 years of the OPA's existence we have never had a fair and impartial director.

The only fail-safe for our next flawed OPA director is an OIG director who actually does their job and is held accountable.

The Public Safety Committee has complete control over the hiring, the evaluation, and the firing of the OIG director. Yet the Public Safety Committee will now discuss things it has no control over, while continuing to ignore, for an astounding seven months now, the failures of the OIG director it has complete control over.

Given the OIG whistle blowers' -- at least two whistle blowers -- revelations over the last year, it is critical for the Public Safety Committee to protect us from another bad OPA director by:

(1) Immediately initiating an investigation of the current OIG director with public hearings,

(2) Remove the current OIG director if current whistle blower allegations are found to have merit, and

(3) In parallel initiate a review of the entire police accountability system as was outlined in the Seattle City Auditor's report of 5 years ago, a report that was never acted on.

But, better than trying to fix a system designed to fail, we need to build, through a City initiative, a police accountability system that provides full civilian community control over police. Go to SeattleSTOP.org to find out how."

What's up with the "M. Harrell" weirdness? No copy editor at The Stranger?

M. Harrell = Monisha Harrell vs. Mayor Harrell or Harrell. Things get confusing when you have nepotism in government.