A look at SPD, crime and homelessness in Seattle, WA. Local citizens experience the consequences from Seattle City Council members decision to defund the SPD budget.The problem with Seattle’s experiment in defunding the police so far isn’t that there are now fewer police. It’s that they weren’t replaced with anything.“I feel like the city is…
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Washington Supreme Court strikes down law that makes unintentional possession of drugs a crime
A divided Washington Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional a longstanding law that made it a felony to possess illegal drugs even if you didn’t know you had them. The court used the 2016 arrest of a Spokane woman, Shannon Blake, to revisit Washington’s “strict-liability” drug possession law, which the Legislature adopted in the…
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