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November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Less "pedestrian interference" enforcement, more "vehicular manslaughter / menacing" tickets please #Seattle #TWOC #PolicingTheOpenRoad
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The articles comes as the Seattle City Council is scheduled to vote next week to expand CCTV surveillance cameras throughout the city that directly connect with SPD's RTCC, powered by Fusus software. The expansion would cost the city $1 million and could further enrich Axon Fusus.
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Cutting the Seattle Channel and existing jobs to fund the youth prison and more police budget. This is not what people want. This is what business wants and they are the squeakiest wheel in town with the deepest pockets. This is a police state.
In the proposed budget, Harrell moved MORE than the amount of the deficit from the Jumpstart tax fund to cover that deficit. (For those who want figures, he’s transferring $287 million from Jumpstart to the General Fund, and his Budget Director is now saying the deficit for 2025 is around $250 million.) This means significantly LESS money for affordable housing, the Green New Deal, small business support, and the Equitable Development Initiative, which Jumpstart is supposed to fund. He also cut many programs and 159 positions, 76 of which are currently filled. This means 76 layoffs. Through a combination of defunding affordable housing and other Jumpstart prioritizing, cutting city programs, and planning for layoffs, he was able to fund some new priorities in the proposed budget, many of which center around public safety. SPD’s budget is increasing by 16%, or $62 million, in 2025, standing at $457 million. It now constitutes 26% of the entire General Fund. The department’s “ghost cop” positions are maintained, and 30 more civilian positions are added, including 7 new civilian investigators, 2 new special parking enforcement officer positions, and 21 new Real Time Crime Center analysts, 12 to begin in 2025 and the remainder to begin in 2026. SPD emphasis patrols in the new SODA and SOAP zones will receive an additional $10 million. Almost $4 million are allocated for the surveillance technology pilot that includes RTCC software and CCTV cameras, compared to $1.5 million allocated for this purpose in the 2024 budget. Seattle will be spending almost $3 million for beds at the SCORE jail in Des Moines, as well as an additional $2 million for more beds in the King County Jail.
September 29, 2024 at 5:42 PM