republican city attorney anne davidson,,, welcome to The Resistance

Hmm, sounds like someone got a reality check that operating in the public sector and trying to manage a criminal justice system is a little more complex than "LAW AND ORDER"

This is me shocked. I am shocked. Of course this was going to happen. It had to. The delusional Seattle is Dying crowd just didn't want to hear it.

Reminder: The point-man Ms. Davison hired that came up with this republican flavored triage was the MAGA ex US attorney Brian Moran. He will be highly paid by Seattle Tax Payers on special contract. In conjunction with his huge law firm where he and his partners already earn over $3 million each. Fellow Republican Rob McKenna is a partner in this firm.

Gotta funnel that tax payer money into MAGA coffers, right Ann?

@3: Oh, so just because Donald Trump appointed him as U.S. Attorney he's forever blemished as MAGA?

Well, the Stranger's endorsed candidate, NTK, promised to ignore all misdemeanors except DUI. City Attorney Davison will prosecute DUI and domestic violence. So, the Stranger got half of what they wanted. Good to see they're so gracious about it, too:

"Until that fund gets up and running, the people who got their shit jacked or busted up are shit out of luck."

That's rich, coming from the same website and author who recently and openly mocked victims of theft for complaining about getting their shit jacked: "...steals our catalytic converters, our precious, irreplaceable, catalytic converters???" (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/02/18/66978601/slog-pm-biden-believes-russia-plans-to-attack-kyiv-spd-clears-12th-and-jackson-the-choco-taco-returns)

Awesome! Open season on theft!

@5: Yeah, soooo rich that Rich Smith mocks the stealing of catalytic converters when those devices cut down on harmful emissions that contribute to climate change.

Okay I dare you to commit a theft then, unless your thimble-filling dick won’t let you

the Hard as Fuck
on human beings yet
softer than Charmin on
nearly ALL Corporate Crime
crowd ain't gonna Like it when
Property Damage* is treated as
just another crime by 'republicans' and
therefore un-Worthy of further examination?

what about Revenge
and Retribution and
an Eye-for-an-Eye
& The Patriarchy
for christsakes?

and the Reptilian
Brain stem? so Who's
gonna Stroke that Now?

huh? Huh?

*you broke my
Slave! now you
Owe me $90,000

HAPPY FOUR TWENTY Everyone!

and Get BETTER Chase!

oh and btw is the
City Attorney single?
she can Prosecute my
ass any ol' time she Wants

@5 -- 'openly Mocked'?

how DARE they
there oughtta
be a LAW

This is at least a reversal of the usual trend in our politics, at least at the state and national levels. There, Republican misrule creates such chaos, when the Democrats get back into office, they spend half their time just reversing those Republican policies, and cleaning up the messes created by those Republican policy failures. It's far past time for a Republican, even if she's the biggest RINO in all of RINO history, to clean up a mess left by a liberal.

Good to see the stranger finally acknowledge that people getting their "shit jacked up or busted" is no fun and also people want to see compensation for these crimes perpetrated against them whether in the forum of incarceration or monies.
Usially the stranger says fuck the victim of crime because the criminal was just trying to buy a coat or some bread, dontchaknow?!

And isn't it ironic?
Don't you think?
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought? It figures.

Sounds like somebody on The Stranger staff " got there "shit jacked up or busted" and finally no matter now late in the game are finally "getting it".

And now they understand the need for real prosecution of these crimes..... its very different when their "shit gets jacked up or busted"...

Next step... teaching them its not the city's responsibility to "reimburse you for getting your shit jacked up or busted", but that is the responsibility of the "turd who jacked up or busted your shit"

Now they can "'chase the turd around and around the toilet bowl of justice" and see what its like to get compensated... it will take a life time.

... or they could simply by INSURANCE from one of those horrible capitalist companies... to cover getting your "shit jacked up or busted".

The Stranger staff is starting to grow up... and that is refreshing.

@12 … by doing exactly what the “liberal” was doing?

Delusional.

Laughed out loud when I heard about this. Glad Davidson was copying some of her opponent's answers during that campaign. It's good to learn from the more experienced in your field if you want to improve.

Where is the army of unarmed social workers? Are we just pretending that defund the police was never a thing? After destroying our city and leaving us without a functioning police or justice system, the progressives are just going to go meh.....? It's almost like it was all just a big performance to these people. On to the next issue de jour

@1/@18 - Davison - not Davidson. Please make a note of it.

@23 I'll just call her Annie

Tax evasion. Where does that fall on the list? I'll need to know in order to budget my resources.

@25
"republicans"
defunded the IRS
already. so No Worries*

*if you're Rich
irs cannot Afford
to Audit your ass.

smooth Skating!

@17: Yes, Rich tries very, very hard to give the impression that Davison is just imitating Holmes, without delving into specifics (for obvious reasons). Hence his vague, hand-waving generalities, such as, "the strategy here more or less aligns with the one former City Attorney Pete Holmes used..." The difference, as Rich back-handedly notes, is that Davison has actually hired attorneys, ones who actually want to close these cases.

But I can understand how you missed all of that.

@19: "Pete Holmes left such a mess there really was no alternative. Some of those cases probably go back five years or more."

Another point which Rich tries to turn into a negative -- for Davison:

"She added that she will also decline to prosecute cases "that have passed the statute of limitations," which is good news, because pursuing those cases would be...illegal."

Yeah, the former City Attorney left things amiss for so long, the statute(s) of limitations actually expired (!!), but that's just another point to fling at his successor, somehow.

(If we think this is silly, wait until the backlog has been cleared to the point the city can begin prosecuting misdemeanors such as theft, illegal camping, and other ways to clear the remaining encampments. The screaming from Rich & crew here should be pretty amusing.)

@11:

"'openly Mocked'?

"how DARE they
there oughtta
be a LAW"

I did not state, nor did I mean to imply, that the Stranger should be in any way, through force of the law or otherwise, face even the slightest resistance to casting the most embittered, mean-spiritied, cold, callous, cackling blame upon the most innocent victims of crime. The Stranger should always, always, always be free to show everyone just how much petty, gratuituous cruelty it can eagerly heap upon the heads of innocent persons who are victims of crime.

Now, if you believe otherwise, and if your further believe you can indeed craft a law which will impede in the tiniest amount the Stranger's expressions of loathing and contempt for crime victims, and will also pass a First Amendment challenge in a court of law, then by all means, please feel free to devote your literary talents to such an endeavor. (And if your labors prove sufficiently time-consuming to reduce the amount of your commentary which can be read here, then I will boldly speak for your readership, and say we are one and all united in favor of making that sacrifice.)

Funny how @20, 21 & 22 completely gloss over @12 essentially admitting that the Republican strategy has always traditionally been: "fuck it all up, leave the mess for the Democrats to clean up - if they can", by simply making the assertion that in this case Davison seems to be responding to what has long been an overwhelming caseload in the City Prosecutor's Office more like how her Democrat opponent said he would, than how she said she would.

@30: I didn't say it was a strategy, because I would never attribute to intent or malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity and incompetence.

Also, to extend what I actually wrote @12, our current example does, regrettably, hew to the time-honored American tradition of having a white guy blithely screw everything up, and then having a woman and/or BIPOC person work hard to fix it.

@29 -- wow.

take you Long?

'And if your labors prove sufficiently time-consuming to reduce the amount of your commentary which can be read here, then I will boldly speak for your readership, and say we are one and all united in favor of making that sacrifice.' --@tentsoresrus

your turn again.

@33: Use of standard grammar and punctuation (and also avoiding mis-use of the CAPS LOCK KEY) saves lots of time. (You'll just have to trust me on this.)

I do hope you understand, I wasn't advocating censorship of any kind, and especially not legal action. I was merely noting the bald hypocrisy of first mocking crime victims, then demanding public money be spent to recompense future victims of crime (instead of deterring/preventing those crimes in the first place, via prosecution of existing crimes). Pick a lane, Stranger.

@28: Lots of city taxes that can be sidestepped. I pay more state, county and city taxes than income tax. A fact that our regional money-grabbers are more than happy to have people overlook.

Now excuse me while I cut those trees on the city right of way that block my view.

@36: Yes. And it remains to be seen whether Seattle's passing on the prosecution of non-violent crimes BETWEEN CITIZENS will be extended to cases where the city finds itself to have been victimized. I suspect that the city will enforce the law to the letter should they find themselves to have been short changed.

You peasants can steal from each other. But the king must be paid his due.