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Seattle police propose that budget surplus … goes back to police

By Hannah Krieg | August 25, 2021

After 100 personnel departures in the first half of this year, the Seattle Police Department has come into unexpected funds: over $15 million in salary savings. The department has already dipped into the savings to cover the cost associated with losing officers, like separation costs and paying overtime to compensate for a smaller crew. SPD made a proposal to the City Council’s public safety committee Aug. 10 for how it plans to redistribute that money internally. ...

JustCARE’s ‘not a sweep’ approach ends with 30 cops in City Hall Park

By Hannah Krieg | August 25, 2021

After months of tension between employees at King County Courthouse and the encampment of over 50 unhoused residents, City Hall Park closed Friday, Aug. 13. JustCARE, which is a multiagency nonprofit that receives funding from both the city and county, was tasked with removing the park’s residents with its sweep alternative model. ...

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Support Afghans resettling in the Puget Sound

By Mahnaz Eshetu | August 25, 2021

The weekend before last, I watched the news out of Afghanistan with a sense of dread. I heard from some of our staff, many of whom still have family in Afghanistan. They said everything is in turmoil and women are afraid to leave their homes. Then, friends in the local community started to reach out to me and together we shared painful memories of when our own families were cast into exile. I was born in Iran and came to the U.S. for university. A few months after I arrived, the Islamic Revolution in Iran broke my family apart and I did not see my mother for 5 years. ...

Rain in Greenland and other incomprehensibles

By Dr. Wes Browning | August 25, 2021

I check out Arctic weather frequently. The Danish Meteorological Society has a website devoted to Arctic weather, and I watch the average temperatures rise and fall. Most of the year, the graph that emerges is jagged with steep climbs and drops, but there’s a reassuring patch with a gentle predictable curve during summer. ...

COVID-19 outbreaks at the Tacoma detention center

By Oscar Rosales Castañeda | August 25, 2021

It goes without saying that there is some trepidation as schools come back to in-person session in the next few weeks. There’s an interesting tension that occurs as we meet present conditions. It’s clear that the pandemic is not going away any time soon, and thus we can’t collectively presume that we can simply return to life as it was before COVID-19. Sadly, this does not stop the immigrant carceral apparatus from reverting to its pre-2020 modus operandi. ...

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