Tag: Public Safety
Gun Safety Measures Pass Committee
The Council’s Education and Governance Committee voted this morning to approve two gun safety measures: a gun violence tax on the sellers of firearms and ammunition and a requirement to report lost and stolen firearms to the police. The gun…
[Full Post]Posted: August 5th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety
The Hard Work of Innovative Policing
Two weeks ago I spoke on a panel at a White House forum on innovations in policing about Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. The LEAD program allows the police and prosecutors to redirect nonviolent, low level adult offenders…
[Full Post]Posted: July 15th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety
A Common Sense Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
The following op-ed article was published yesterday in the Slog. Every year taxpayers in Seattle pay for millions of dollars of emergency medical care for people who have been shot. It’s time for the gun industry to chip in to…
[Full Post]Posted: July 10th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety
Tomorrow is Denim Day
Tomorrow the City Council will wear jeans for #denimday, part of Sexual Violence Awareness month. Join us! Councilmember Godden’s office provided the following background on Denim Day: For the past 16 years, Peace Over Violence has run its Denim Day…
[Full Post]Posted: April 28th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety
Town Hall about Rising Rents with Councilmember Sawant
Next week, on Thursday, 4/23, at 6:00 pm in City Council Chambers, Councilmember Kshama Sawant and I are co-hosting a Town Hall to discuss the impacts of rising rents on Seattle residents and what we can do about it. I hope that you can join us. Sponsoring organizations include the Community Housing Caucus, the Church […]
[Full Post]Posted: April 15th, 2015 under Councilmember Licata.
Tags: Housing, Human Services and Health, Public Safety
New Police Command Staff
Chief O’Toole has taken a significant step toward rebuilding the public’s trust and confidence in our Police Department in the hiring of four new assistant police chiefs and a new chief technology officer. It’s a bold step. A very correct…
[Full Post]Posted: March 11th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Police Accountability, Public Safety
January City Inside/Out: Council Edition
Earlier this month I joined Councilmembers Bagshaw and O’Brien and host Brian Callanan on the Seattle Channel to talk about Bertha, encampments and public safety issues. You can watch the video below.
[Full Post]Posted: January 29th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety, transportation
The False Promise of the Death Penalty
Two high-profile death penalty trials are underway in King County Superior Court: the 2009 assassination of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton and the 2007 Christmas Eve mass murders of three generations of the Anderson family in Carnation. Both crimes were…
[Full Post]Posted: January 26th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety
One Night Count Numbers Jump 21%
Each year the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, organizes a one night count of people all over King County sleeping in their cars, in doorways, under bridges, in greenbelts, and in doorways. This year 1000 people participated in the count. This year, these volunteers counted 3,772 people without shelter in King County last night. This […]
[Full Post]Posted: January 23rd, 2015 under Councilmember Licata.
Tags: Housing, Human Services and Health, Public Safety
On State and Local Marijuana Regulation
Earlier this week City Attorney Holmes released a very helpful summary of the current status of marijuana regulations in Washington State. He also includes his recommendations for a single, integrated regulatory framework at the State level that provides access to…
[Full Post]Posted: January 7th, 2015 under Councilmember Burgess.
Tags: Public Safety