How long before the Police Guild buy the URL and lay it to waste?

We should consider just firing all of SPD and starting over from scratch.

Your link to the site is broken.

The link to the subject of the article, the website, is (absurdly) broken. Please format it with the URL schema "http://" so it's not a relative URL. Like this: http://www.seattlepolicevideo.com

"We certainly don't have a problem with it—we support it." Suuuure. And all excessive force complaints are taken seriously and thoroughly investigated too, right Sean? Whitcomb is so full of shit, I'm surprised he doesn't turn into a septic tank during a full moon.

nice work nerds

Your OPA has zero credibility. You need a new citizen review board reporting to the city council, plus all that other stuff Joe Sz. has been saying recently. Why McGinn's palling around with stadium patent-medicine-men instead of real mayoring is beyond me.

It's interesting to follow Cienna's "urban golf assault" link and read the scornful comments at the time ("nerf ball=assault," "cap his ass," etc.).

I love this guy! FUCK THOSE FUCKING LYING FUCKS

Eric Rachner is a god damn hero. Eric, if you're reading this, thank you.

Now I can only hope you become the gadget guy for Phoenix Jones.

This is brilliant. Eric Rachner is providing an absolutely critical service here.

From the KOMO story on the officer who declared he was going to "make stuff up" to charge two men with robbery:

We showed Seattle Police Sergeant Sean Whitcomb the arrest video, and he admits the 'make stuff up' comment was inappropriate. But he says the department's Office of Professional Accountability investigated the complaint and exonerated the officer.

"I can tell you we take (complaints) seriously but people have to believe that and they have to trust the system they have to trust the process," Whitcomb said.

We asked Whitcomb if the department was going to hold officers accountable when dashboard cameras aren't turned on.

"We do, we actually do, look at our OPA reports," Whitcomb said. But when we reminded him it didn't happen in this case, he said, "well maybe not in that case, but there's other cases."

Add Whitcomb to the list of city assholes who NEED TO GO. McGinn, Diaz, O'Neill', and now WHITCOMB. Trust the sytem? Which system? You mean the system that EXONERATES bad cops CONSTANTLY, allows MURDEROUS COPS to go free, and leads to citizens being profiled, beaten, and MURDERED?
WHITCOMB, YOU ARE JUST AS MUCH A FAIL AS THE REST OF THIS STUPID SYSTEM, AND NOT A GODDAMNED WORD YOU SAY MEANS SHIT!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1zo5jphS…

Cops still acting like fucking THUGS, screaming at people, threatening, saying STUPID SHIT, calling people names. Are they EVER going to fucking learn? Granted this stunt was performed in a pretty poor area---a bus stop, with buses coming and going incessantly. But cops seem to be COMPLETELY unable to deal with the public AT ALL anymore! A streetgang unto themselves.

But Sean Whitcomb is really a genuinely nice guy. He doesn't get to say what he really thinks; his bosses give him a script that he has to stick to. We live in a culture of lying, top down, that permeates every part of our lives, public and private. If we citizens didn't tolerate and even support lying with our consumer $$$$, things would change. Ever heard "We get the government we deserve."?

@15: Just following orders, right?

It is DISGUSTING what Seattle police get away with. Total Corruption. Every single officer KNEW we didnt have accountability all these years and kept their mouths shut. Our so-called civillian oversight director of the OPA Kathryn Olson earned over 700,000.00 these past few years giving the impression we had accountability yet she still sits in that cushy job that she failed miserably at. She also reports directly to the mayor the city council and the police chief so NONE of them can claim ignorance. I call that fraud on all the tax payers. Now we are going to pay 4 more people to oversee the director who oversees accountability. Does this make any sense? Seattle is being defrauded by our entire police department and our elected officials. Its Pathetic!

@13

Your video shows the King County Sheriff, not SPD.

Throwing a bunch of money around 3rd and pine, although it was pretty cool , it also amounts to inciting a riot.