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New Chief Barnes pledges Seattle Police Department will ‘return to normal’ (www.theurbanist.org)
submitted 4 days ago by DougHolland to c/seattle
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that supposed to be a good thing? The SPD doesn't exactly have a good history when things are normal.

[–] Warl0k3 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, "normal" for SPD is constant violence and rampant abuse of authority...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Not to mention heavy-handed interference in politics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I wonder if that includes actually staffing police stations. Here's the sign that hangs inside the door of every Seattle police precinct, which remains locked all day, every day: