At least the republish adds one public service: The New York Times' original version did NOT allow comments, while the Seattle Times' version does. I was thinking of adding one putting the fab new SPD service in context (while the NYT writes as if there is now no other partner needed in the relationship between police and community, we would note, as a neighborhood-news publication, that if you want to find out more than "it was a theft report," you STILL need a news organization to dive into it - unless you don't mind waiting a week to read the redacted report, if it even shows up online).