Well, that day when by quickly, didn't it? Here's what you may have missed while you were doing your last-minute holiday shopping online (because, you know, those Amazon purchases won't make it by Christmas if you ordered today...) more ›

Today, the Seattle PD's Aggressive Driver Response Team (yes, that's a thing) camped out on the West Seattle bridge, keeping their eyes peeled for drivers displaying, as indicated by the name, aggressive traits. And while they did nab some speeders and a handful of folks driving without insurance or other necessary paperwork, their biggest catch was for something that Washington drivers are notoriously awful at: staying out of restricted lanes. more ›

Low -- very, very low -- levels of radiation found in milk in Spokane [NWCN] more ›

Seattle PD's DUI squad has been reassigned, and is currently under investigation. According to the Seattle Times, "is focused on accusations that arrest reports weren't properly screened and approved by a sergeant in the department's DUI squad." more ›

Last night’s police accountability forum at Seattle City Hall, while filled with angry outbursts, protests and in many ways “uncivil” discourse, actually did provide some answers to the night’s primary question - “Where Do We Go from Here?” But you had to look past a lot of fireworks to see them. more ›

ALL TOGETHER: Brazilian dance theatre company, Grupo Corpo, knows how to bring a little flair to the world of modern dance. The group's work is equally based in ballet, with lifts and sweeping gestures, the sensuality of Brazilian dance, classical music and movement, angular modernity and even a few light additions of swing. The result is a new(er) vocabulary of ballet, the seamless combination of these styles. Grupo Corpo's first ballet, Maria Maria, ran internationally and in Brazil from 1976 to 1982. Its stay in Seattle will last three days. Friday and Saturday are already sold out. Along with tonight's performance, there will be a pre-show lecture on the stage beginning at 7:10 p.m. more ›

Cops and prosecutors believe they have enough dirt on more than a dozen Central Area drug dealers to send them to jail. But they're not going to prosecute--not yet--under a new community policing tactic that offers drug dealers amnesty for their crimes if they enter job training programs. more ›

This morning's story about Wallingford car prowls going unpoliced isn't the first time we've heard the Seattle blogosphere making noise about lack of SPD follow-up for smaller crimes. West Seattle has car prowlers, so does the U District and Central District. In contrast, SPD says car prowls on Capitol Hill are down 50 percent. more ›

The reports that "sources within the local law enforcement community have said that recently set plans indicate Kerlikowske has been chosen for a federal post." The nature of that post remains unclear, though the rumor is Drug Czar. more ›

There's a noisy debate going on in the comments on both Slog and KOMO regarding the cops and lethal versus non-lethal actions. more ›

If The Sopranos took place in Seattle, we always imagined the mob haunts would be in industrial south Seattle, with the Bada Bing on Airport Way South. So the report of a body being dumped out of a moving vehicle at Ninth Avenue South and South Dakota Street at 7:30 this morning sits well with our seedy visions. more ›

• You know it's Seafair when the Seattle Police Department issues a "Boating Under the Influence Advisory." That's right folks, if you're out on the water this weekend, beware: everyone else on the lake is going to be drunk, whatever the boat cops say. As long-suffering Seattle residents who can afford boats, that is their God-given right during Seafair. It's the viking heritage.
• Crosscut Seattle confirmed a long held theory of ours: that the local news and radio broadcasters have remained virtually unchanged for our whole life. And we were right! Jean Enersen celebrates 40 years with KING5 today, and yesterday KIRO Radio personality Dave Ross celebrated 30 years on the air. Sure, the city has quadrupled in size, but you still got the same old Jean and Dave (and Steve Pool...and Kathy Goertzen...and Dan Lewis) to tune in to.
• Central District News warns local dog owners who might take their pups for a dip at Madrona Beach or a romp in the park. Two dogs convulsing from suspected slug poison have been taken to emergency vets, but have thus survived.

At least that's part of the lesson we learned from reading the Seattle Times feature news story on how corrections officers and cops troll Seattle festivals like The Bite and Seafair for lapsed felons and folks with outstanding warrants. The other thing we got from reading the story was never wanting to go to another free festival again. You only have to read the first sentence of the story to be convinced, but we assure you the whole thing is filled with reasons not to attend.... The opener: more ›

Downtown Seattle turned into an Old West style stand-off this morning as SPD officers pursued bank robbery suspects driving a gold SUV. Shortly before 11 a.m., SPD officers surrounded the suspect's car on Spring Street between First and Second Avenues. While all the details remain sketchy, at shortly after 10 a.m., a man described as armed and wearing a mask held-up a West Seattle Wells Fargo on the 2300 block of California Street. SPD officers entered a pursuit as the suspect fled in a car driven by an accomplice. The chase first led through Capitol Hill and then downtown, where one of the suspects fled on foot near the intersection of First and Yesler before being apprehended. The driver continued on, leading to the eventual stand-off in downtown. Unwilling to relinquish the weapon or exit his car despite demands from officers, the SPD fired on the suspect, hitting him in the neck. more ›

After this week's headlines about Seattle Central Community College, we're seriously starting to wonder. Two seperate SCCC students were arrested this week for threatening to commit violence on the campus. more ›

The man Seattle police simply call "the groper" has attacked another woman in South Seattle. The serial sexual assaulter grabbed an Asian-American woman who was walking with a toddler on Saturday morning in the 7500 block of Renton Avenue South. The victim screamed, drawing the attention of several witnesses, including one who tried to take a photo of the attacker's car and license plate with a cell phone camera. For his efforts, the good Samaritan was charged by the attacker, pushed to the ground, and his cell phone was stolen. While the groper's attention was on the good Samaritan as he ran away, the victim of the assault also fled the scene and has not been located by police. more ›

Ah, the modern age. more ›

The local chapter of the NAACP is hosting a series of hearings on police conduct with minorities and the poor. The People's Panel on Police Responsibility will hold its first meeting at 6pm this Thursday at the Garfield Community Center. more ›

Another woman was attacked early this morning, in the latest string of violent assaults against Asian women on Beacon Hill. Around 2am, a 55-year-old woman was attacked outside her home when she returned from work. more ›

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. more ›

The University District was plagued with violent assaults this weekend. Within a 36-hour period four students were assaulted in what were thought to be related attacks, a man was seriously injured in a stabbing, and another University of Washington student was robbed at gun point. more ›

We remember what happened seven years ago, when poor Kristopher Kime got himself beaten to death on the street while cops stood by and did nothing. Not taking any chances tonight, those coppers. They've pulled their fearsome mobile command units up to the fire hydrants at First and Yesler, ready to do battle.
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Seattle Police have another guy in custody in regards to the killing of Shannon Harps, and this time it seems like it's actually the guy who did it. The Seattle Times says that his DNA matches that found at the scene. Perhaps the scariest detail is that it seems like the two were complete strangers. "They had no previous contact to our knowledge," said Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer. more ›

Today we'll be playing the part of a slobbish, washed-up Seattle Police Detective. Our character has spent years busting pimps, dopers, gangbangers and the occasional Amish fellow. And for what? A goddamn string of broken promises, broken bones, two ex-wives and a bad liver. more ›

Seattle Police, or the Washington State Ferry system, or the FBI, or whatever shadowy anti-terrorist unit is in charge of this particular investigation hasn't contacted Seattlest at this time. They haven't asked us into the evidence room in the basement of some nondescript building and opened the box containing the suspicious device they found in a Seattle/Bainbridge ferry bathroom and asked us to identify it. We can identify it, however, and you probably can too if you ever smoked pot in a college dorm. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

On Greenlake Way between 50th St. and the putt-putt golf course, in that parking lot bordering the Lower Woodland Park fields, lives a King County Sheriff's car. more ›

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." more ›

Another in a string of online sex stings recently caught ex King County Prosecutor's Office employee Lawrence Corrigan trying to meet up with a 13-year-old for sex. You asshole, Lawrence. more ›