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Mayoral Candidates Spar on Public Safety, Being ‘From Here’

by Erica C. Barnett & Paul Kiefer

(This article originally appeared on PubliCola and has been reprinted under an agreement.)

Seattle Mayoral candidates Lorena González and Bruce Harrell faced off once again on Sunday during a public safety-focused forum hosted by the ACLU of Washington and moderated by Sean Goode, the director of the Seattle-area youth diversion nonprofit Choose 180.

The forum was a chance for the two candidates to get into the weeds on issues like police oversight, union contracts, and the logistics of civilian emergency response.

But anyone looking for detailed, specific responses to questions about these issues — not to mention the City’s use of the King County Detention Center, plans to increase or decrease Seattle Police Department (SPD) funding, and under what circumstances police should use lethal force — might have come away disappointed.

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Column, Social Justice

Turning Tables for Justice and “Zero Harm”

by Anne Althauser 

After dashing through midday traffic from North Seattle to Seattle Center Monday afternoon (thanks a lot Joe Biden) on Monday, I finally arrived to a peaceful and energized group of folks standing in the rain circling Seattle’s Raging Grannies. As they sang songs about the opposition to King County’s plans to build a youth detention center on 12th and Alder in the Central District, with lyrics like “when jail is spelled L-O-V-E, oh how I want to be in that number, when jail is spelled L-O-V-E,” young and old united in prayer before European Dissent’s table turning action at Howard S. Wright. Continue reading Turning Tables for Justice and “Zero Harm” →