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5 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Despite Mike’s alarmism about a public safety “crisis,” year-on-year violent crime trends are flat (down in some categories)
Compare violent crime from the first quarter of 2020 (left) to 2021. Not much difference ImageImage
12 homicides in 2020. 11 in 2021 ImageImage
And that spike in homicides last year? It happened *before* the city voted to make modest cuts to the police budget in November.

It’s almost like the number of police on patrol has zero impact on crime. Image

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7 Jun
CRG officer Richard Bonesteel is a real charmer.
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Bonesteel may go by Richard, but acts like a “Dick” both on and off the job.

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4 Jun
Next Wed, the SeattleFdn's board will vote on a policy to stop processing donations to police non-profits & other orgs that harm our communities.

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26 Apr
SCOOP: DivestSPD has now identified all six officers who attended the deadly Trump rally in DC on January 6th.

Cw: Violence
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UPDATE: The investigation of Sgt. Michael Tietjen is nearly complete. Last August, he ran his SUV onto a sidewalk full of protesters and referred to them as "cockroaches."

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1 Dec 20
Here are the names of all the members of the SPD Community Response Group (CRG) aka SPD's specialized anti-protest unit.

Reply with pictures + dirt if you have them.
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Another early Christmas present from DivestSPD....

The complete SPD Daily Roster, current as of Nov 15 2020.

Enjoy, fam.

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30 Nov 20
Getting back to basics w/ more profiles of SPF leadership

Meet John Carlson: right-wing media personality, Washington Policy Center co-founder & Seattle Police Foundation board member.

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Carlson has been a champion of tough-on-crime policies since the 80s.
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