In a conversation with Mike Solan, the head of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, Seattle Police Department officer and SPOG vice president Daniel Auderer minimized the killing of 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula by police officer Kevin Dave and joked that she had “limited value” as a “regular person” who was only 26 years old.
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In fact, as we reported exclusively, Dave was driving 74 miles an hour in a 25 mile per hour zone and struck Kandula while she was attempting to cross the street in a marked and well-lighted crosswalk.
Seattle PD is fucking garbage.
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They threw a bitch fit when the citizens got pissed they were tear gassing random people (including children) who were walking on the sidewalk and had nothing to do with the George Floyd protests or CHOP.
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They were under federal observation for over a decade because they were responsible for multiple questionable deaths.
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A ton of the force quit because they didn’t want to get vaccinated during COVID.
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Recently they had a Trump flag with a Nazi symbol on it in one of their breakrooms that nobody took down.
The list goes on and on. They need to dissolve the police union in Seattle entirely, and set a precedent. I’m not anti-police, but I am over their whiney bullshit and completely unethical behavior. Seriously, fuck Seattle PD.
Seattle PD is and has always been terrible. For a city with as little violent crime as we are, you would think that we would have a semi-competant police force. We aren’t Baltimore or Chicago or Memphis. We don’t need a violent, antagonistic, adversarial police force. Yet decade after decade, Seattle PD shows themselves to be the worst of the worst of violent white nationalists.
SPD’s training standards are embarrassingly low. SPD’s staffing numbers are embarrassing low. Rookie cops make over $100k and the right-wing pundits say it’s not enough, while first-year teachers make $55k and the right-wing pundits say it’s too much. They blame the BLM riots and say that the city betrayed them, but the average person here had absolutely zero faith in them well before the riots. Most SPD officers don’t actually live in Seattle.
Sorry if the second paragraph got a bit into unhinged-rant territory, but shit like this is infuriating. SPD is so clearly shit and needs to be purged.
It’s partly because of how they’re trained, Killology, and partly because these are people policing us from outside of Seattle.
If you live in the Seattle area, you surely know that a lot of people who don’t live in the metro area really resent Seattlites. They’re not really clear about why. I guess for being progressive.
Not much of the police force lives in the city proper. So we’re being policed by outsiders who dislike us to begin with.
They also advertised in NY for recruits in the aughts.
You keep saying SPD and I keep wondering how Space Patrol Delta sunk so low. It’s no wonder the top of the force turned evil and the B-team Power Rangers became the heroes we needed to stop them.
You forgot about the part where they don’t respond to calls. Just a couple of days ago, a man was found dead at 10:00 a.m. The sound of shots fired had been reported at 3:00 a.m., but the police decided not to respond to that call.
A friend’s son was stabbed multiple times last year and they did nothing. He knew the guy’s name, or at least an alias, and had a picture because the guy had contacted him on social media to buy something, which is why they were meeting in the first place, and SPD was like, “wow that’s a bummer, I guess we could maybe arrest the guy if one of our officers happens to trip over him during their daily rounds of doing jack shit, but we’re not gonna actually look for him.” Apparently attempted murder with a side of robbery doesn’t warrant them removing their thumbs from their asses to do the bare minimum of investigation.
Wow, that’s horrible. Not surprising here, but still horrible.
All went downhill after Marty Crane retired.
You forgot more known January 6th participants than any other department in the country:
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“No, it’s a regular person.”
I’m speechless. I know the training draws a line between the police and everyone else, but for it to be right there in print, from someone high up the hierarchy…I’m stunned that they could be so callous with a life.
It really is “us versus them,” isn’t it?
I am not aware of any place else where police refer to people as “civilians”. Usually that is reserved for military and not military. But in the US they think it’s borderline martial law.
They really honestly believe there is a separation between them and “us.”. I believe this is the root of the problem.
Why do cops have the power to just routinely turn off their body cams?
That should be limited to using the bathroom. If it gets turned off during regular duty, it should be presumed to mean something is being covered up because that is exactly what it means. There should be paperwork triggered every time it is turned off.
They shouldn’t be able to turn it off ever, for any reason. If there is a privacy issue it needs to be dealt with administratively, and not at the discretion of individual officers. If they can turn it off then it defeats the entire purpose of wearing them in the first place in my opinion.
they impose invasive drug tests on people [as an extremely minor, parallel example], they don’t deserve a fucking bit of privacy
Their badge ought to be a camera. If you aren’t running the camera, then you’re not a cop, your just a regular dude in a police officer costume.
How is it police unions seemingly have more power than any other union? The writers are striking and that’s barely doing anything for them but the pigs? They just have to bat an eyelash and get what they want…
Because regular unions are there to safeguard the worker’s rights against abuse from employers.
Police unions are there to safeguard cops from facing discipline for murdering people.
Plus they don’t send the Pinkertons to bash people’s skulls in when it’s cops on the picket line.
And let’s not forget that law enforcement has been the primary tool of unionbusting from day 1.
Because they’re class traitors that enforce the rules of the status quo.
They’re massive for a start. Police have something like 60% Union membership. Compare that IT and service industries which are in the area of 3-6%. That gives them serious clout for lobbying legislation and anything else.
Unions are effective. Sadly this one i just happens to be working for a rotten gang.
Interesting. I guess I didn’t realize some industries that appear to only hire union actually hire both union and non.
Because they have guns and apparently the ability to use them indiscriminately.
Give the guy that reported the conversation the raise of the guy(s) that were involved and didn’t report it. Also fire them. Reward the good behavior, punish the bad and we’ll stop saying ACAB.
Typical cop evil. I expect that “just a regular person” translates to “not somebody important enough to actually pose a legal threat.” That is, not a cop, reporter, politician, celebrity, etc.
I don’t think you’re wrong, but I looked at her name and my first thought was that it was because she wasn’t white.
Oh no, these people would never call a non white “regular”
Seattle PD has been under a consent decree for the last decade for over-use of force and racist practices. The decree is about to end (and the PD is petitioning to end it early), and the problem has not improved. It’s gotten worse.
There’s all this talk here (I’m a Seattleite) of how the police are trying to regain trust or are frustrated at the lack of trust, but they don’t take accountability for their actions.
10% of all homicides in Seattle are committed by the police. They don’t show up when you report a shooting.
I wonder why we don’t trust them.
Back in the 1920s, Germany generated the most vile, most iredeemable “easy villains” that could be killed en masse in any heroic fictional media with hardly any thought to issues of morality. When real world wars are too complicated, involving multiple sides with their own form of blame, an uprising of the fourth reich in modern days is an easy villain.
I wonder if we’ve found a new one though.
Omg reading the whole article is so much worse
As an exercise for the reader, look for the sentence that is something like this every single time an article comes out about bodycam or other video footage after a controversial police event.
This suggests a different sequence of events than the one Rantz outlined in his piece attempting to exonerate Auderer before the video became public today.
You’ll almost always find one. TL;DR: When cameras are on cops, turns out they are shown to lie. A lot.
Ghoulish.
Reducing the ‘value’ of a life to monetary terms just means it’s legal to kill them if you have the money.
Also, that shit should be disqualifying in people supposedly sworn to uphold the law
If you want get really mad and/or have a reddit account you want banned, just check r/protectandserve.
They’re lamenting how bad this makes them look, and how this will make policing harder.
There are some who are even agreeing with the officer, about how these “remarks” shouldn’t get him fired.
Just got immediately banned there. Those mods are keeping a close eye on that thread, lol.
There’s a disgusting amount of bootlicking in that thread. “I believe officer ‘whatshisname’ deserves a second chance” 🥺
He got his second chance, he fucked it up by opening his mouth.
He absolutely SHOULD get a second chance just like the one he gave Kandula.
This dude already has like five chances in his record as it is, he’s a real piece of shit.
It looks bad because it is bad. Unfortunately it’s just par for the course and nothing will change, because we live in hell.
Can’t expect anything different from the police when both major parties will do nothing meaningful to hold them accountable. You want change? You have to vote for it.
It’s not about the voting, at least not directly. It’s about the cost of hiring and maintaining a police force, and the kind of person who would be willing to be a police officer for low pay, versus the type that would want high pay for the same position, and how that affects city budgets.
We all have to sit back and let cops do this because they have the power and the military-grade weaponry. What the fuck can we do to stop them?
Well I suppose we could start by abiding by the tender suggestion of a certain document and not let them be the only ones with weapons.
How exactly do you expect us to get military-grade hardware?
The fuckin’ Army Surplus store dude. The local gun store. Here in America, we have access to it all.
Do we? I don’t see too many APCs available for sale.
Here you go: http://www.exarmyvehicles.com/
That website offers APCs and other tank-like vehicles for sale, with international shipping offered. See their Logistics section for options.
If that’s not a good option, you could always buy a Dodge monster truck like the small dick men of the USA often drive, then pay a welder to add armor plating surrounding the vulnerable areas. 1-inch steel plate should stop most small arms fire.
And how many people who need this sort of thing to fight back against police will be able to afford them and then figure out how to use them properly and then use them in a fight with the police and survive?
We don’t need cops. The owner class needs cops. That’s why nothing will ever be done about their behavior, they aren’t for us.
All cops are bastards.
ACAB.
