"There's Been an Awful Lot of Criticism of Police in the Last Few Weeks and Very Little Show of Support" So says King County sheriff John Urquhart. "You can support the police without being a racist," he writes, while instructing all deputies to wear black bands across their badges in solidarity with the police officers killed on Saturday in New York. "I think it’s important we recognize these two officers" who were "flat-out assassinated."

The Man Who Assassinated Those Cops Had Been Arrested 20 Times: "Mainly for petty crimes like stealing condoms from a Rite Aid drugstore in Ohio." He also had mental health issues and a history of gun-related violence.

Speaking of Guns, the New Law Requiring Background Checks in Washington State: Is working.

At Least 17,000 Pain Pills and Muscle Relaxers Went Missing at a Walgreens in Kennewick: Police believe a pharmacy technician took them. Surveillance video allegedly shows her "grabbing a bottle and either walking out of view or pouring the bottle into her pocket." She has pleaded innocent.

Seattle Man Who Pleaded Guilty in 2003 to Aiding the Taliban Helped British Law Enforcement Nab a Man Involved in London Terror Plots: "The Senate report indicates that Ujaama—not al-Qaida detainees subject to harsh interrogation tactics by the CIA—provided detailed information that helped British authorities track down Dhiren Barot," Seattle Times reports.

Endangered Killer Whales Would Just Kill for Some Chinook Right About Now: "These whales can eat sockeye and halibut, but overwhelmingly prefer fatty chinook from Puget Sound and Canada’s Fraser River, distinguishing them from other fish by using sonar to sense differences in the animals’ swim bladders." Puget Sound chinook are a lot harder to find in the sea than they used to be.

Traffic on the Eastside Is Worse Than Ever: Slow and stalled traffic on I-405 is "up 78 percent from 2009."

Traffic Around Northgate Must Have Sucked Last Night: "Two troopers were hospitalized Sunday evening when they were struck in separate crashes at the same scene on Interstate 5." They are both okay.

"Seahawks Crushed Cardinals" Say All the Headlines: Sounds painful. Spike Friedman's take will be on Slog later this morning.

Meanwhile in Indiana, There's a Pastor Who's Been Arrested for Allegedly "Grabbing and Squeezing" a Stranger's Genitals by a Lake: The pastor's name is literally Gaylard Williams. He's 59. The other guy was 27. Police found gay porn in his car: "Gaylard said he was taking the gay pornography video back to someone.” Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Have You Read Rebecca Brown's Latest Essay on Winter? It's called "How to Survive Winter with Nothing but Your Own Mind." It begins: "It's dark outside so winter inside makes sense. It's cold so you cover up. It's stuffy and sweaty inside your clothes but your fingers and face are freezing... The nights are long, they last forever, until you're supposed to get up and then you can't. You don't want to get out of bed or see or talk to anyone. You want to sleep and not wake up. You want to burrow. The winter trees have given up so why can't you?"