“but that’s just One bad Apple”
And the other bad apples?
Why are they still there?
Like:
*The fto officer who insisted on stopping every single black man that was jaywalking in the Rainier valley but, let the young white frat boy go who was walking around pioneer square with a full bottle of beer.
*The fto officer who likes screaming at victims of domestic violence because she doesn’t like the way that they talk to her.
*The fto officer who likes screaming it recruits under her charge.
*The fto officer who likes letting drunk drivers go at 2:30 in the morning because filling out that paperwork with their fto charge would mean that they’re there for a few hours late.
*Vice president of the Seattle police officers guild who laughed about the death of a citizen while on the phone with the president of the police officers guild.
*The student in the academy who hid a wrist injury for an entire 6 months, convinced his classmates to cover it up, so he wouldn’t get kicked out of the academy. Negatively affected his ability in defensive tactics class. He ended up in a leadership position at SPD.
*The captain in charge of the police academy at Sandpoint, who lost his cool, screaming in the face of an academy recruit for yawning while standing in formation. Screaming at him for not getting enough sleep, when in fact he made it a point to get 9 hours of sleep every night and show up an hour early to work out in the gym.
*The police officer in the North precinct who worked with a bad knee that he hid from leadership, for 4 months. That was because he didn’t want to lose out on overtime pay.
*The crew in the south precinct that let one of their members sleep behind a drugstore for 4 to 5 hours a night because, “he needed to get some rest because he’s been working so much overtime.” They covered for him by answering his radio calls.
*The lieutenant in charge of the fto office who was let go for helping officers cheat on the sergeants exam.
*The sergeants who he helped cheat on the Sergeant’s exam.
*The instructors in the SPD academy who joked about carrying a throwdown gun.
*The instructors at the SPD firing range who joked about assaulting someone because they said the wrong thing to him.
*The SPD officer on a ride along, who thought it was funny to wave a teddy bear in front of the face of a crying woman who is in the back of his police car. She’s been picked up in Denny Park and was being held for a very minor warrant, and she was upset. He thought it was funny to wave a teddy bear in front of her while she got more and more upset. Laughed about it he did.
*The fto officer who insisted on arresting a young drug addict for possession of a perfectly legal buck folding knife, because he kept insisting that it was a fixed blade knife because it locks open. And the young officer on fto could say nothing about it because they are always wrong.
*On the very first day of the academy, recruits are told that they either pass the Cooper test again or they are out. Then, when 25% of the class fails the Cooper test on the first day of the academy, they are not released but given a second chance.
Yes, SPD recruits have to go through a lengthy and detailed process to finally be able to be handed a badge and their box of bullets for their gun.
I’m pointing out that that process is broken in ways that allow people like the ones I mentioned above to serve in uniform and interact with the citizens of the city.
Because, if they’re going through all the training, and these incidents are still happening, then something is wrong.
“What do we do about the bad apples then?”
The bad apples are easily found.
Leadership just has to do something about them.
The accountability process SPD is broken.
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