Seattle PD's accountability office director falls under scrutiny

McGinn is responsible for these people and their job performance, good or bad. I recall thinking to myself when he appointed then acting chief diez to the top cop position; they must have something incriminating on the Mayor. While diez has his supporters, there are also those here in the community that wonder where his leadership was when his department had gone berserk making headlines with repeated acts of stupidity. I still say one of the other candidates might have been better for a fresh start.

Uh....I am not sure how she became "director."  

 

1. She has no policing or criminal law background.  She is an attorney, whom officers usually don't like to deal with.  Has she seen what victims of crime go through in proceedings?  I would rather trust a former District Attorney from another state in the position than Olson. 

2. Her expertise is NOT in criminal law. Employment law is a totally different field than criminal law.  How do you expect Olson to really understand BOTH police officers and victims of crimes?  It is like telling a four grader to operate a car.  He or she can do whatever they want and will likely crash the car into the wall. 

 

 

And uhhh, why isn't there a civilian review board in Seattle PD to investigate complaints?  Or is there? NYPD has one! Heck, I think LAPD has one as well.  The only way to be a good police organization is through transparency. its also part of the community policing model...Just having a "director" heading a "hidden" entity meant to do what a civilian review board is suppose to do is pretty darn scary.

 

- Concerned new resident of Seattle 

She was hired by Mayor Mike McGinn. She's just doing what Mike tells her to do. The rot starts at the top and trickles down.

Given this level of documentation, I would say felony charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit unlawful detention (kidnapping) perjury and false and malicious prosecution are in order. This is the cops siding with and protecting the criminals (who are also cops).

 

Way to prove your "responsibility" and "public service", SPD! A jack-booted gang of thugs with their own gun moll in OPA!

OPA Officer protection Association ok that sounds better.

How many news reports do we have to see to know that the system is rotten right to the core? Whats needed is someone without law enforcement experience to come in and clean house. Give them carte blanch to get the house in order. Then there needs to be a civilian oversight committee to investigate any corruption and misconduct from officers.

I never realized just how messed up this really is!! This system is suppose to protect and serve, but all it really does is make me feel even more vulnerable in Seattle.  So, can we clean this mess up and start over again yet?

She should be charged with obstructing justice, false reporting, and whatever else they can find on her. What a worthless sack of crap.

Just the nature of a corrupt system. There's no one impartial to file a complaint with because they all work for the same people. From top to bottom its nothing but a rats nest.

  So what is the upshot of all this; have the charges of resisting arrest, etc. already been shown to be untrue? The city attorneys must have some pretty solid evidence to pursue a case that is a political bombshell, right?

 

  People do sometimes assault police officers, and otherwise resist arrest. Because some other officers have been less than stellar in their dealings with the public, are we now free to go all Zsa Zsa on any Seattle cop? 

 

  Seems to me that for the time being, cases like this should be sent to an impartial third party to assess the facts only. I think the city attorneys already do that, but just to remove doubt caused by the current mistrust. 

 

 

 

Dear Seattle Voters,

 

Part of this is your fault, too. 

 

Sincerely,

Me

Sound like a Seattle Gate (not Water Gate ),just a cover-up !

I wonder how Donald Fuller's complaint would have been handled if he went directly to Mayor McGinn with it.

thanks for watching another exciting episode of seattle 911.  stay tuned...

I wonder who made her do it....Satan!!!!!!

 

Well isn't that special......

All my relatives from elsewhere in the country have visited and we got that over with. So no reason to go up in the land of the Needle tourism to worry about getting jackbooted for minding your own business.

Kathryn Olson should be investigated for fraud on the tax payers.   She did NOT give us the accountability we paid for.  

 

If the Mayor and the city council were surprised by the federal investigation then Kathryn Olson didnt inform them of the issues of not having any accountability which was part of her job. The OPA website says she reports directly to them.  

 

Now....if the Mayor and City Council Knew we didn't have accountability then they are all corrupt and sat quietly while we all paid for a federal investigation, settlement after settlement and are now paying for a federal judge to babysit the police.  

 

Which is it?  Bruce Harrell is one of the city council members who Kathryn Olson reports to.  

 

Are you corrupt Bruce Harrell or did she not do her job that she received almost a million in pay and benefits to do these past few years?  We are all paying Dearly for the horrible job she has done.  Weren't you paying attention at all?   

 

Where is Tim Burgess in all this?  He was here all these years. 

 

Komo don't let Harrell off the hook so easy.  Ask if he knew about all the issues with the SPD or not.    Its pretty important

 

im shocked we live in seattle.. or kabul afghanistan..

WTF

I wrote the following letter at the beginning of this year.  

 

January 24, 2012

 

 Mayor McGinn, Seattle City Council, Seattle Police Chief Diaz, 

 

 It is absolutely impossible for you to not have known we had no constructive police accountability. It took a Federal investigation to point that out and the only thing you can do is follow their advice? This tells us all that you had absolutely no intention of even correcting the problem until you were told to. You had no ideas to reign in all the lawlessness of the Seattle Police That is not the leadership Seattle needs. Unfortunately it is now clear you are part of the problem and we are all paying dearly for it.

 

I have put in a public disclosure request inquiring what the entire salary the Office of Professional Accountability Director Kathryn Olsen has earned since May 7, 2007.  Besides recommendations on disposition and discipline to the Chief of Police she also reports to the Mayor and the City Council on OPA activity and issues concerning the professional standards. From what I can see her entire job has been to give the tax payers of Seattle the illusion (or disillusion) of accountability on their website. Anyone can sit at a desk and take in complaints that go nowhere. Did she inform you of these stalled complaints through all these years? You seem surprised by the results of the federal investigation. Was that an act? Either you were informed or she didn’t do her job.

 

Furthermore we can not even count how many officers have been proven to outright LIE on their reports anymore. No officer proven to lie should ever be able to carry a badge. Our freedom is at stake. Thousands and thousands of fines, convictions and incarcerations are in question that involved these officers. Are you doing anything at all to help these people?  Imagine if one of your family members lost their freedom based on the report filed by an officer proven to repeatedly lie on reports. I don’t think you can imagine this because obviously it is unlikely when you are the Mayor. What about the rest of us?

 

Do you know how much all the investigations, lawsuits, settlements, and cost of both the prosecutors and the defense of lawless abusive officers is actually costing the tax payers?  Have you ever even looked at these figures as the elected leader of this city?  Does this effect property taxes? Utility bills and cuts to school budgets?   When parents are asked for even more money from schools for their children to participate in school functions do you wonder if the latest multi million dollar settlement caused this?  As Mayor of this city I just assumed you would when Millions and Millions are paid out of our tax dollars for police wrongdoing.

 

100 percent of all Seattle Police officers knew that we didn't have a system to hold them accountable and knew the public was lead to believe otherwise.  How could they not when they witness one fellow officer after another getting away with, well, just about everything. 100 percent! That is outrageous! That is an entirely corrupt police department. We are all paying a horrible price now for both your lack of leadership and action.

 

I have very little confidence in this federal investigation since we have already been through this whole process. In just a few years since a complete federal investigation into the abuses and rights violations being committed against inmates in the King County Jail ended we have paid millions more in investigations, defense attorneys, lawsuits and settlements.

 

One correction officer Richard Harr almost beat an inmate to death. Four other correction officers testified that the inmate was following orders and did nothing to warrant this beating which involved choking him unconscious and kicking and stomping his head and neck repeatedly. An emergency room physician testified that the inmate suffered life threatening injuries and it took a team to save his life.  Yet he received a misdemeanor thanks to yet another sweet deal from our prosecutors and their close relationship with our police departments. Even the judge said he was undercharged but then accepted this deal. Again a prime example of the blatantly low standards that our officers are held to.

 

 

OPA is a joke. I am an ex-corrections officer. A few years ago I captured a criminal near my house and handed him over to two SPD officers. The perp was face down w/ my knee in his back, totally subdued. One (very large) officer picked him up (as opposed to cuffing him then and there) and kneed this 140 lb perp in the chest a half dozen times. I was appalled. After calling the officer later on a related matter and realizing what a full time jerk he really was, I decided to file a complaint. It went nowhere, but I think I know why. The perp started a lawsuit over the matter. Can't have OPA finding their own guilty, particularly if a lawsuit is brewing, huh? Dirtbags. 

Like the Chief, she was appointed by Mc whats-his-name.  Business as usuall, move along nothing to see. 

Now slap someone's hand and give everyone a raise as usual.

"Seattle PD's accountability office director falls under scrutiny"

 

LOL well I should hope so

No offense to police officers in general, but there are a lot of m0r0ns work in the force.  That's a fact.  And thanks to those m0r0ns, we keep reading about SPD on Komo whether we're already sick of it or not.  

Seriously!?

 

Shitcan those people!