Bad Cops & Prosecutors

27 Years

Posted on May 18, 2008
"He took my life away from me. What's the difference if it's by a gun, by words or by lies. What's gone is gone." -James Woodard, exonerated by DNA evidence after 27 years of false imprisonment.

Police Guild Approves Contract

Posted on May 16, 2008
Seattle Police Officer's Guild members voted 921-106 to approve the latest contract offered by the city that would make them the highest paid police force in Washington State (experienced officers would make over $90,000 a year under the new contract)...

An Example From The OPA Auditor Report

Posted on May 16, 2008
I was reading through the latest Seattle Police Department's "Office of Professional Accountability" auditor's report and ran across an example that highlights some of the more glaring problems with police brutality in Seattle and how the problem will continue to build distrust between the public and the Seattle Police Department...

Blogged.com Censors Injustice In Seattle

Posted on May 15, 2008
Some of you might remember quite a while back when we announced that a site that rates blogs gave Injustice In Seattle a 6.9 out of 10 and we were pretty happy about that, especially since we never told them about our site.Well, for reasons unexplained to us, that same site has since deleted it's references to and review of our site...

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Miscellany

Posted on May 15, 2008
Just some various bits of stuff today...First: Yesterday was the first day in several months that we didn't get at least one visit from the City of Seattle's government network. Pretty amazing, maybe everyone was on vacation!Second: We've added some new legal contacts to the police misconduct attorney page and we're happy to report that it's our third most often viewed page! Hopefully the victims of police misconduct are finding the information helpful in their search for justice! Third: On that note, we're always eager to hear from legal experts who would like to have us do a piece to advise victims of police misconduct or detainee abuse on what they should and should not do when they are abused...

City Wrongfully Arrests People To Prove A Point

Posted on May 14, 2008
The Seattle Police Department has no problem wrongfully arresting people, this point has been proven time and time again... but recently things took a turn for the worse when the city actually encouraged it's police force to wrongfully arrest nightclub employees for political gains...

More Technical Difficulties

Posted on May 12, 2008
Looks like something messed up the layout so the usual links and news aren't at the side but happen to be dropped to the bottom of the page.I'm working on it. *sigh*UPDATE: fixed...

Cops Who Lie Under Oath Never Punished

Posted on May 12, 2008
Here's an interesting read over at Simple Justice about what happens to police officers who commit perjury... (Hint: nothing, especially in Seattle)Reminds me of some Seattle Police Department officers who have a history of lying under oath and still testify on the stand...

Police Cameras: Privacy vs Security

Posted on May 12, 2008
The mayor of Seattle has created a bit of a tempest in a teapot with his decision to bypass the Seattle City Council and purchase closed circuit security cameras for the police to monitor a local park due to increased complaints of criminal activity...

Hiatus

Posted on May 07, 2008
Sorry for the dearth postings lately, again... Been struggling with work and some nasty headaches lately, but should be back at it shortly.Planning some stories on the city's surveillance camera policies that let cops spy on citizens but consistently hides evidence of police misconduct...

Technical Difficulties

Posted on May 05, 2008
Sorry if you couldn't get in this morning, seems that there was a problem with the switchover to the new injusticeinseattle.org domain. The host provider wasn't fast enough fixing it so I just switched back and set the new domain to do a redirect to the old domain at injusticeinseattle...

Analyzing The Guild's PARP Accountability Alterations

Posted on May 03, 2008
In order to help people understand how removal of the 180 day rule exclusion affects the remaining PARP recommendations I've decided to break it down a little bit better.Here are all 29 of the mayor's PARP accountability recommendations, color-coded to link the interrelated items:While not all interrelated items are interdependent, the following items are interdependent:These items are specifically designed to deal with the loophole that allowed the chief of police to exonerate officers against the recommendations of OPA investigations that had recommended discipline, as in the Alley-Barnes case where officers were exonerated by the chief without explanation and one was promoted after severely beating a man in front of several witnesses without just cause...

Our Comments Policy

Posted on May 03, 2008
It appears as though some officers are upset that we don't publish their comments when they send us harassing or intimidating messages. So, to help them out, I'm going to post our comments policy here, even though it's right there one the comments form itself...

A Video To End This Miserable Week

Posted on May 02, 2008
Feels like the battle for police accountability and civil rights in Seattle was lost this week, today I just feel like the fight has been completely beaten out of me. I would post "I Fought The Law", but we all already know the police guild always wins here in Seattle...

Paying A Painful Price For Wrongful Convictions

Posted on May 01, 2008
While reading details about yet another exoneration of an innocent person who was wrongfully convicted at The Agitator, I had a bit of a flashback. I was back at my fourth week in jail, where I was sent based on false charges and testimony, and I was laying in my bunk watching a movie on the television in a cell that held about 18 people...

Police Guild Might Have Won Battle Against Accountability

Posted on May 01, 2008
Jonah Spangenthal-Lee reports at The Stranger Blog SLOG that Seattle Police Officer's Guild president Rich O'Neil has told him that they have successfully negotiated at least one of the mayor's 29 PARP recommendations off the table for their contract...

Pardon Our Dust

Posted on April 30, 2008
As you may have noticed, some changes are in the works.One of these changes is in response to the fraudulent injusticeinseattle site that was set up by some Seattle police officers. So now, not only are we at "injusticeinseattle.blogspot.com"We are also located at www...

Hope For Some Better Day

Posted on April 29, 2008
Nearly 200 days ago I filed a complaint with the Seattle Police Department's OPA at the suggestion of one of the lawyers I contacted about my case in regards to my mistreatment at the hands of Seattle Police officers. I never really expected anything to come of it, but I was hopeful that maybe they would be honest about what happened, about how they wrongfully tortured an innocent person...

King County Sheriff Ignores Complaints

Posted on April 27, 2008
Some of you may remember this story about a woman who's house was searched against her will without a warrant, who was detained and intimidated in the back of a police cruiser while partially dressed for refusing to let the search continue, and then had her home ransacked by a SWAT team who was looking for her boyfriend who wasn't even there...

The Many Deaths of Sean Bell

Posted on April 26, 2008
An unarmed Sean Bell was killed before he was to be married by a barrage of 50 bullets fired by NYPD officers 2 years ago.Yesterday, Sean Bell was killed again by a shot fired by the justice system of the United States... at least, this is how it felt to the woman who Sean was to marry the day after he was killed by the police...

Seattle Police Guild Takes Offer To Members

Posted on April 24, 2008
It appears as though the contract talks between the Seattle Police Officer's Guild and the City of Seattle have made some progress and the union's negotiators and leadership are in the process of taking the city's offer to the members for consideration...

Seattle Police Guild Takes "Tweaked" Offer To Members

Posted on April 24, 2008
It appears as though the contract talks between the Seattle Police Officer's Guild and the City of Seattle have made some progress and the union's negotiators and leadership are in the process of taking the city's offer to the members for consideration...

Changes Ahead

Posted on April 22, 2008
Sorry for the slow posting again, I've been having a really hard time with medication changes for my headaches that have really been kicking my butt but not doing a thing for the headaches themselves... just make me feel worse really.Anyway, I've been noticing a lot of traffic from people looking for resources to help them with police misconduct issues and jail abuse issues and sometimes they don't seem to hit the right pages that would give them the information they need about the frighteningly few attorneys left in Seattle that actually help people who have been abused by police and the jail...

King County Jail Inquest

Posted on April 22, 2008
The case of Lynn Iszley's slow and gruesome death in the King County Jail was first cited by the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division as one example of inadequate medical care at the King County Jail in it's investigation of that facility that ultimately slammed it for it's potentially deadly constitutional rights violations...

WTF?!?

Posted on April 19, 2008
Consolidated the information about the latest bizarre attempts to mess with us here.PS. For the curious among you, those older threats from police are still listed here as well.

Imagine Being Tortured In a Foreign Land...

Posted on April 18, 2008
Imagine that you?re in a foreign country and you happen upon a fight, you break it up only to discover that one of the people involved was stabbed. Then you get viciously attacked by a large gang of racist thugs who insist you did it. These assailants beat you with pipes, 2x4s, kick you, and stomp on your head mercilessly while shouting ?kill him? and slinging racial slurs...

Accept No Substitutions?

Posted on April 17, 2008
Looks like someone registered an "injusticeinseattle" dot com domain name recently. Since I was asked about it I want to make it clear that it is not mine, nor do I know who registered it, nor what their intentions for the site might be.Until then, I'd recommend against using the contact form they set up there...

New Blog

Posted on April 17, 2008
There's a new blog that we really encourage everyone to check out. King County Jail Watch has just started up and already they're putting up some really good content about the deplorable detention conditions in Seattle and King County as well as some great information and analysis of detentions across the US...

Accept No Substitutions? Updated

Posted on April 17, 2008
I decided to consolidate the two posts about the latest attempt by Seattle Police officers to harass us here...It started when a reader alerted us to an "injusticeinseattle" dot com site that someone created:But, I didn't create it and nobody told me they were doing it, so who did it was a mystery...

King County Jail Tortured A Man To Death

Posted on April 16, 2008
I think people need to read this article and understand that this man was literally slowly tortured to death in the King County Jail for nothing more than an alleged minor drug possession charge.From the Seattle Times article:"Two medical experts who reviewed Iszley's Jail Health Services file say caregivers overlooked or ignored symptoms that the 48-year-old inmate was in serious medical trouble the day before he died, including signs of acute dehydration and pain so severe that it left him sweating and writhing on his cell floor...

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