Results tagged “policedepartment”

A Seattle teen was critically injured this weekend after a shooting in the parking lot of Northgate Mall. A Seattlest reader, Eli Black, was at the mall shortly after the shooting and sent us photos of the aftermath.

Seattlest's house was broken into last week. The burglar absconded with our PowerBook, our D80, some watches, our wife's jewelry box (high sentimental value, low retail value), and our peace of mind.

We've heard that people commit suicide by jumping off of bridges instead of going a less spectacular route like pills or closed garages precisely because it does create a spectacle. Going out with a bang, so to speak, after failing to make an impact in life. Well, the person who jumped from the Aurora bridge late this morning succeeded in the spectacle-making department above and beyond the usual depression in the Adobe parking lot. The guy landed on some wires causing a transformer in Fremont to blow and power is currently out to some homes in the Center of the Universe.

KING 5's Investigators have their panties in a bunch about the racist and pornographic emails Port of Seattle police were sending on Port time, using Port computers. In their story, they can hardly bring themselves to present the liberally pixelized graphic evidence. Again and again. It turns out, "over a two-year period, 32 officers -- nearly a third of the entire force -- either received, saved, or passed on more than 175 inappropriate e-mails, including sexually explicit and pornographic images and racist videos and jokes."

The Seattle Police Department pulled a Fortuny on Craigslist recently. They posted bullshit ads for $150 full-service massages on CL, the Stranger and Seattle Weekly, but then instead of posting the names, email addresses and dick pictures of the responders on the internet ala Fortuny they arrested the guys.

Which is it, newsmedia types? Safe or not safe? Earlier this week there were 18 billion articles on the freshly-released City Crime Rankings report that listed Seattle as the 262nd safest city in America. 262nd? That's not safe at all! Used to be a time when Seattle was safer than Portland, at least. No longer true, according to this report. Portland is the 249th safest city in the Union. Our region's safest city is Bellevue at 56.

Most evenings, Seattlest drives down 6th Avenue from Seneca to Stewart. And we've noticed, just about every day, that Seattle police officers in yellow vests direct traffic out of the parking garages for the Seattle Hilton and the Washington Athletic Club. When a guest wants to leave, the officer stops traffic in the left lane to let the exiting car turn right.

There's Microsoft blood in the water right now and the sharks at The Stranger are taking full advantage, continuing to hammer home their contention that the software company changed their stance on the anti-discrimination bill in response to pressure from Ken Hutcherson. In "The Lying Game" this week they trot out ex-Microsoft empoyee Jeff Koertzen who reports that he was in a recent Microsoft meeting where the bill was discussed and "said that [Microsoft senior vice-president, Bradford L.] Smith's comments at the meeting made it evident to him that the company shifted its position on the bill after meeting with Ken Hutcherson." Seattlest hopes the feeding frenzy continues.

We reported that members of the Seattle Police Department were under internal and FBI investigation concerning their relationships with various city night clubs, including Rick's topless club. The relationships were said to be potentially problematic because similar romances in the past had come to a bad end for the SPD, but in this case the officers under investigation will not be charged by federal or state prosecutors.

There's a strip club just far enough north to sometimes escape notice called Rick's on Lake City Way. It's been in the news before and depending on the circles you run in it's notorious/famous for skirting the law. A "well-known, documented vice location" according to Seattle Police report issued yesterday.