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DivestSPD retweeted
what a misleading headline - "[SPD] has had 18 vacant parking enforcement positions since 2020, and Mayor Katie Wilson’s budget proposal eliminates half of them"
what "revenue" are 9 of 18 vacant parking cop positions that have been open for 6 years generating exactly?? 🙄
ALT Wilson's cost-cutting may actually stop dollars from flowing back to the city. An analysis by the city's central staff does the math: Each parking enforcement officer costs the city about $115,000 in salary and benefits but typically writes enough tickets a year to generate $200,000 in revenue. That's an extra $85,000 per officer, which means the city will lose about $765,000 a year by cutting those nine positions. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/why-isnt-seattle-hiring-parking-enforcement-officers-if-they-make-money/
As one of the few revenue-generating city jobs, parking enforcement officers should be a budget writer's best friend. Not this year. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
DivestSPD retweeted
Kohen Wiley's tiny coffin carried out by children at his funeral
The 1 year old was shot by police at a Walmart
The officer got away with it
DivestSPD retweeted
Had the privilege of talking to members of the Massage Parlor Organizing Project, which is fighting on behalf of hundreds of working class migrant Asian women across the Seattle region. The group will be honored tonight at @iexaminer's annual gala:
iexaminer.org/massage-parlor…
DivestSPD retweeted
New: the DHS officials who tried to search the man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone lied. They pushed him about having child abuse images. Documents reveal that was a pretext; he wasn't suspected of this at all. He's a Stop Cop City activist 404media.co/dhs-said-they-se…
DivestSPD retweeted
there are so many cameras 🫠
- 427-476 live (308 SPD CCTVs, 96 SDOT (CP Hollingsworth recently said 145), 23 via businesses on Capitol Hill streaming to RTCC)
- 105 "off" stadium CCTVs
- ~400 "paused" SPD fleet ALPRs
- 893 private cams (via request, not live)
so like ~1825-1874+
A Seattle police oversight audit found that approximately 47% of police license-plate database searches lacked the required documentation explaining why officers were accessing vehicle records, making it difficult to verify whether searches were legitimate. Seattle's police surveillance network has expanded to 427 live camera feeds.
SOURCE LINKS: kvi.com/2026/10/02/seattle-w… axios.com/local/seattle/2026…
DivestSPD retweeted
COMMUNITY REQUEST
DivestSPD needs help buying a new (old) computer to automate data collection. We ran our old one until it literally busted open (see pic).
Unlike SPD, we're good custodians of the people's money. We found a refurbbed one for $200.
Chip in at venmo:divestspd
DivestSPD retweeted
In 35 states incarcerated women are faring WORSE than men. It is a public health epidemic going completely unnoticed.
Women’s incarceration has risen by almost 60% globally since 2000. For several decades in the U.S., it grew at 2x the pace of men’s incarceration.
The mass incarceration of women is a crisis.
ALT Line graph showing change in women's incarceration rates in state prisons, federal prisons, and local jails from 1970 to 2023
DivestSPD retweeted
The party loves police. ICE is just a police department within DHS. The Dems core complaint about ICE is spectacle because unlike the GOP they know it agitates folks. Police “reform” is their bargain; exchange cash for a temporary reduction in spectacle. That’s their ICE plan.
DivestSPD retweeted
Hey Minneapolis pals, does this story sound familiar?
If you think $16.7 million is a lot of waste, SPD overtime is even more wasteful and unaccountable.
Overtime spending doubled in the same four years— $25+ million more than in 2022 — and it's all on the honor system. No electronic tracking.
SPD is projected to go 26,000 hours over budgeted overtime this year and again next year.
Budget overages were considered enough of a scandal to completely restructure KCRHA, but routine overtime waste and mismanagement are somehow just a footnote in the SPD budget? Make it make sense.
DivestSPD retweeted
The Divest Digest: Oct. 16, 2026
In this Issue:
* 'Right"-sizing SPD
* Erika Evans is becoming Ann Davison
* A Black lieutenant is suing SPD...again
* ICE still has its hands in the DOL cookie jar
divestspd.com/p/the-divest-d…
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DivestSPD retweeted
Investigative journalist @DRBoguslaw has recently uncovered two stories demonstrating collusion between law enforcement, Corporate America and academics to broaden legal justifications for the build-out of our surveillance state. Part of this effort has been expanding the definition of what constitutes a "terrorist" — providing a justification to constantly surveil virtually an infinite number of Americans.
Watch at the link below.
DivestSPD retweeted
Exclusive stories like this are entirely funded by a small group of community members.
Become one of them at ko-fi.com/divestspd
Choe's bodyguard went viral last week for dropping his gun in Little Saigon.
His name is Adley Shepherd. He's gone viral before—in his past life as a Seattle cop—for punching a handcuffed woman in the face.
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DivestSPD retweeted
Richard Bonesteel, the new CRG sergeant, has problems with anger and problems with women and problems controlling his anger with women.
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DivestSPD retweeted
SPD is actively defunding every other part of the city budget so that they can shoot up the cars of dead people in the hospital parking lot. Cut these losers loose already.
#Seattle, Oct 12, 2026, 12:00 PM hour. Massive police response outside Swedish Ballard Hospital 5300 Tallman Ave NW. Access to hospital blocked for about an hour. Reason: person in driver seat of a truck near emergency entrance slumped over with head on steering wheel. A witness passing by said it appeared to be an older man. Seattle Police treated it as a high-risk traffic stop. Lots of officers, shields, careful approach. After hailing and shooting vehicle with 9mm non-lethal rounds no response. SPD moved in and found the man deceased in the driver's seat.
DivestSPD retweeted
This is the final boss of “using the exonerative tense to protect the police.”
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DivestSPD retweeted
Choe's bodyguard went viral last week for dropping his gun in Little Saigon.
His name is Adley Shepherd. He's gone viral before—in his past life as a Seattle cop—for punching a handcuffed woman in the face.
divestspd.com/p/choe-bodygua…
DivestSPD retweeted
6 + years since the uprising and this site is still an incredible resource! so glad it exists! solidarity with George Floyd Uprising prisoners!
uprisingsupport.org/
