Thread by @JedMSP

Here's a searchable database of Seattle Police Department salaries from 2018 #DefundThePolice #DefundSPD

thenewstribune.com/news/databases…

at the top of the heap is Lt Kebba, who in 2008 "initially decided to dismiss witnesses' claims [that another officer kicked a suspect in the head for no reason] because an officer knows better whether he is in danger than even two civilian witnesses." seattlepi.com/news/article/V…

#2 is James Danielson who appears to work a desk job in the Office of Professional Accountability and makes ~40% of his $328,000 salary in overtime/bonuses. Idk about your place of work, but if HR is working that much overtime, something is fundamentally broken.

#4 is Thomas Yoon, who was a defendant in a 2017 lawsuit for personally deploying 9 blast balls into a crowd of protesters in Capitol Hill, injuring street medics. (sound familiar?) Yoon made nearly $312,000 in 2018. #seattleprotest leagle.com/decision/infdc…

#5 is James Arata, who in 2008 ANONYMOUSLY SENT A LETTER TO THE SPD WITH FALSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST FELLOW OFFICERS WHO GOT HIM DISCIPLINED.

Arata made $307,765.17 in 2018.

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/s…

#6 is Chief Best (***boos from crowd, overripe tomato flies overhead***)

#7 is former Police Union president, Ron Smith, who resigned from his union post in 2016 over a facebook post where he said “The hatred of law enforcement by a minority movement is disgusting … #Weshallovercome”. Smith made $297,853.29 in 2018

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/c…

#8 is Bryan Clenna, who got a soft profile in the New York Times in 2013 for advancing AI-assisted predictive policing in the department. PredPol is widely regarded as the gold standard for racially-biased technology.

Clenna made $291,309.95 in 2018

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/in-…

it's not even worth going down the line anymore. Capt Greg Sackman made $273,479 in 2018; a few years earlier, Sackman brutally beat a man for questioning Sackman's motives to ticket his friend for littering, resulting in a $185,000 settlement.

prisonlegalnews.org/news/2009/feb/…

note that the man Sackman curbstomped, award-winning artist Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, *wasn't even the one who littered*. His only crime was existing on the streets of Seattle while black.

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seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

The narrative that police reformists like to push is that violent cops are primarily newbie recruits making blue collar wages, and are redeemable with better policies and more training, more empathy, more diversity.

In reality, police brutality is perpetrated by cops who are now making over double the average Seattle tech worker salary. Even the officer who pepper-sprayed a child at a protest makes roughly the same as a UW assistant professor.

Sackman and Arata both received promotions after the incidents documented above. Your taxpayer money doesn't just go into cops' bank accounts, it goes towards a system that is perfectly optimized to cover up, protect, and reward racism, brutality, and moral bankruptcy.

anyway, here's a piece from Alley-Barnes' 2010 installation, TO SERVE AND PROTECT, left with no comment other than the settlement he received didn't even cover his legal expenses.

In 2016, during a sweep of The Jungle, a social worker pleaded with the police officer in charge, Sgt. Heidi Tuttle, to bring in crisis workers.

kuow.org/stories/man-wa…

Later that day, Tuttle shot and killled an unsheltered man suffering from mental illness, Michael Taylor, for wielding a dull, 4" kitchen knife in an altercation with another man.

Tuttle made $164,123 in 2018.