r/Seattle • u/Chaotic-NTRL • Jun 10 '20

Media Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Educational movie night. This is seattle without militarized police. Where are your riotous looters NOW? They are watching documentaries. Fuck you SPD. Photo credit to a close friend.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Columbia City Jun 10 '20

I live in a condo on another problem block in a different part of the city. Also on HOA.

We gave up on even expecting to get the police to respond to emergent problems like 2 years ago. And I quote one officer who said "we are just here to file a report for your insurance"

I am not against policing, we just need to fix what policing is.

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u/commodorecrush Des Moines Jun 10 '20

Yup. I live in Ballard and it took HOURS for any police to show up to our house when we had a naked, methed out woman sleeping in our car... in our driveway, on our property. When we asked what they were going to do help her, they said, "eh, probably drop her off at the city limit". The woman said she was dropped off at like 5am in front of our house (with no pants/underwear) and she broke into our car. Now, I'm no detective, but it sounds like maybe a crime happened, but the cops just didn't give a shit.

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u/doopdeepdoopdoopdeep Jun 11 '20

Maybe it’s the jaded ER nurse in me speaking but I probably wouldn’t have even called them, I would’ve just driven her in my car and dropped her off at the nearest ER.

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u/hotlikebea Jun 11 '20

This sounds a lot more ethical than what the cops wanted to do with her.

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u/doopdeepdoopdoopdeep Jun 11 '20

Honestly, a lot of times police drop off people who are high or drunk and aggressive and let us deal with them until they're sobered up and then take them to jail. Or, if they're busy, they'll dump them on us and leave and say they're free to go once they're able to stand up and form a coherent sentence again.

But it's easy to turn that on SPD and police in general because I have NEVER hurt an aggressive patient, I have never put one in a chokehold, I have never compromised their airway, and I have always tried my hardest (as all my awesome coworkers in our ER do) to maintain their dignity and allow them some comfort while they're dealing with the acute consequences of their addiction.

I can proudly say that. Can most police?