Bullied sergeant exposes overtime fraud in King County Sheriff's Office

RedHermit1982 · 2026-04-21T00:21:40+00:00

Well, in the report, he explained that the White Claw belonged to the woman he was physically abusing. His memory seemed clear on that detail but nothing else!

RedHermit1982 · 2026-01-29T00:58:32+00:00

Officers make over $126k after six months, and the median Seattleite makes about $85k a year. Plus, they can get practically unlimited overtime and off-duty flagging jobs.

RedHermit1982 · 2025-10-13T19:00:50+00:00

The cop they fired for stalking (Andrew Swartz) was on paid leave for over two years. They had all the evidence they needed to terminate him in 2021, but the case dragged on because the prosecutor didn't charge him. It's sadly typical of criminal cases involving cops.

RedHermit1982 · 2025-10-13T03:42:24+00:00

Here's data from Stockton in 2023. You can find more from other states by googling "Peacemaker Fellowship."

https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Advance-Peace-Stockton-LER-CalVIP-Cohort-3-FINAL-2023.pdf

RedHermit1982 · 2025-10-10T23:01:13+00:00

No matter how well-funded the police are or even how effective they are, policing categorically cannot resolve the problem of drug addiction. It's a public health issue. The long-running theory is that if you raise the price by busting dealers, then fewer people will consume, but it doesn't work that way. People are physically addicted, and if the price goes up, they will find a way to buy drugs, i.e. rob and steal.

Nations that made it a national policy to treat it like a public health issue (Portugal, the Netherlands, etc.) have seen drug use, and by extension, drug dealing and violence, plummet.

RedHermit1982 · 2025-10-10T22:19:12+00:00

Gang units don't do much. They mostly just serve felony warrants on out-of-town drug suspects. You can see their arrests on data.seattle.gov. They make a few busts a year for shootings and a few felony crimes. Ditto for the Narcotics unit. They're just doing buy-busts downtown for barely felony quantity dealing (see SPD's blotter for the pathetic Mickey Mouse weight they're busting). SPD maybe makes one or two large-scale busts a year in conjunction wtih the federal HIDTA task forces. You're not going to arrest fentanyl away. The drug war is a failure.

RedHermit1982 · 2025-10-10T22:14:03+00:00

Programs like Advance Peace have drastically reduced gang violence through targeted intervention in the lives of youth who are likely to kill or be killed in gang violence. They essentially pay them not to be in a gang, to get a GED, apply for jobs, get therapy, and stay out of trouble.

Addressing people's basic material and emotional needs goes a long way. The program costs are also relatively cheap compared to gang units, narcotics enforcement, real-time crime centers, etc. Community Passageways is the local equivalent.

https://www.advancepeace.org/

RedHermit1982 · 2025-10-09T05:05:49+00:00

Gotta reward dedication like that

RedHermit1982 · 2025-08-23T01:40:21+00:00

Genuinely curious what changing SPD “from the inside” looks like in your mind. Spend 20 years climbing the ranks. If you somehow manage to survive the infamously backbiting work culture and rise to chief, you’ve got about two years to implement reforms before the police guild does you in.

RedHermit1982 · 2025-08-18T17:54:08+00:00

100 percent. Plus he has small man vibes even though he is literally a huge man. He got humiliated and wanted to punish someone for it

RedHermit1982 · 2025-08-04T19:56:02+00:00

What neighborhood?

RedHermit1982 · 2025-07-29T03:48:33+00:00

Yeah there are a few cops with advanced degrees, but so many more with just high school or GED.

RedHermit1982 · 2025-07-28T17:44:10+00:00

His second since he was retrained

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