Reichert was chasing the green river killer around for decades before deciding the timing was right to start his political career and arrest ridgeway

If the cops were out doing this sort of thing on a regular basis, guess what - 90% of the problem that's currently got the mayor's tighty-whiteys twisted would - ta da! - go away overnight. But, instead we keep hearing the same tired refrain, "not enough manpower!" or something similar from TPTB, while Carr & Nichols, along with their cronies on the City Council continue to put more onus on businesses to do the work of police outside the limits of their own property lines.

If someone could actually compare the number of underage served/consumed or the amount of overserving of say, all the nightclubs in the city versus a single Mariners or Seahawks game, I'd be willing to bet dollars to donut holes on which side would have more violations. But, those are "family activities", in which the City/State has a vested financial stake (via the Public Development Authorities), so they're going to overlook all but the most blatant and egregious violations there.

Going after nightclubs on the other hand is like shooting fish in a barrel: the MS wannabe millionaires inhabiting the habitrail condos nearby don't want to be disturbed of their rest after putting in their 60+ hours a week for "the man"; they're notorious for attracting the "wrong kind" of people (young, urban, ethnic, hedonistic - add your own euphemism here); and they're loud, scary places where scary young people engage in all sorts of illicit and possibly illegal activities (e.g. dancing, drinking, drugs and sex).

Meanwhile the Mayor, in his ongoing quest to turn Seattle into Bellevue-West, gets to pull all of these bullshit grandstand PR displays, with the cooperation of a now-complacent SPD (maybe hizzoner hopes his now-felon son will get some easy treatment at the hands of whichever LE jurisdiction he ends up reporting to, quid-pro-quo), gets to swing his big brass pair by showing how "tough" he is on the issue of law-and-order, making Belltown/P-Square safe for the sleepy denizens of those high-rise crackerbox condos sprouting up like 'shrooms in a rainforest.

Meanwhile, on the back side of Capitol Hill, far away from the upwardly mobile, I'll probably be awakened yet again by the *crack!* of REAL weapons fire, about which the local constabulatory will do next to nothing...

Yeah, also, if the police had the resources to be constantly on the look-out for crappy and reckless drivers, vehicular accident rates would be way down. But they don't have those resources. The best they can do is set speed traps every now and then -- and the bitching of drivers caught in those speed traps knows no limit.

It's the same deal with enforcing nightlife laws. How many resources is the city supposed to waste forcing bar and club owners to do their jobs?

The idea that an undercover cop can arrest a club bouncer for failing to confiscate the weapon of someone the bouncer already KNOWS is an undercover cop is pure bullshit, and just indicates who blatant this entrapment is.

If the clubs are as bad as the cops and the mayor keep saying they are, why do they have to make up these BS "stings" in the first place?

One would think they'd have plenty on their hands dealing with the actual violations they claim are already occuring.

undercover cop tries to make illegal bribe to illegally enter nightclub and the bouncer, once again gets fucked.

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