Wait, I thought the police forces were taking a larger percentage of the total taxes to city and county tax collections every year?

Either one is true (growing share of our taxes) or the other (shrinking police).

Can't have both.

Don't like Mcginn anymore don't like the drunks that cant even walk at 2am much less the 3 or 4 crowed.

I will be waiting for McGinn and his wonderfulness of Ideas to go back, way back, all the way back to New York where he came from?

Don't like the police involved in the WSLB and I don't like Politics involved in Decisions about public safety? The state issues licences and is responsible for the bag of crap that goes with it.
the night life has vanished as club after club has closed down with the economy and McGinns crap along with the Piss Dept wont come close to applying to next years problems? Seattle's night life will be 2 LGBT bars 1 Country bar 2 Rock bars 2 Discotechs and 5 sport bars and ten Asian or Mexican holes in the wall by this time next year?

1st ave is drying for crying out loud? Duh!

Why do states even have mandatory bar closing times anyway?
Why not let the bars choose when they want to stop serving alcohol?

"In a modest coup, King County Executive Dow Constantine addressed a letter of support to the board last year, an implicit sign that the King County Sheriff's office also backs the measure."

You're basing that on what? That they both are part of King County government? The King County Executive and the King County Sheriff have disagreed on various policy matters ever since the Sheriff was made an elected position. To infer the Sheriff or the Sheriff's Office supports something solely on the fact the Executive does is plain dumb.

@3 Republicans will drink until their guts explode and poop rain like volcanic ash. Seen it lived it its nasty.

@1 - sure you can. If the pie gets smaller, one chunk may take a larger portion, but still shrink in relation to what it was previously. This has happened with the King County Sheriff's Office - they take up a larger and larger share of the general fund, but because the general fund has suffered massively in the economic downturn, the Sheriff's Office has had to lay off personnel and make cuts too.

Here's what I would do.

I would require everyone who enters a bar to present, along with ID, a $50 taxi pass which is current and valid with their address and maybe even picture ID stamped on it.

As they leave if there is any sign of intoxication, they would be forced to use the pass and be verified by the cab driver that they rode all the way home.

(Actually maybe you could just do this with a drivers license...the drunk would be "ticketed" by the taxi company using their license for record keeping.)

No pass. No entry.

Let me guess, @7 you also work for the taxi lobby...

I have no problem with preventing drunks from driving, but some of us purposely live in neighborhoods where we can WALK home from the bar. Why the fuck should I have to pony out $50 for a cab I don't need?