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.
State senators make $60k/yr.
Over 50 SPD cops last year made over $250,000
We aren’t getting what we’re paying for.
Dissolve and restart the force using a different psych profile and ban the one currently used.
Something that will always be my first thoughts when I think of Seattle cops…
Walking down 4th ave and a guy on the corner offers to sell me drugs (I got crack, coke, and smack?) I walked across the intersection and at the next block is a cop in a car waiting for the light to turn. I point at the dealer and tell the cop that guy just offered to sell me cocaine and heroin.
His reply was that I should call 911
wowzers.
Then another memory I have is walking near Pike Place and two beat cops are walking towards me. I say hell to them and they give me dirty looks. Don’t say anything to me and look me up and down and then move on.
Like really? WTF
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.
I work on Aurora and I’ve had the police literally tell me to stop complaining to them about the prostitutes and meth heads because they don’t care…
Canada has similar issues with stupid cop shit.
Calgary officer who body slammed handcuffed Black woman should go to jail, Crown argues
She OD’d on the day the cop was sentenced to a nothing-burger sentence.
I didn’t forget. This was one of the worst examples of police abuse that almost nobody knows about. That Sheriff’s Deputy had a long history of violence, and was literally being used as hired muscle by the King County Sheriff at that time. The Deputy should have been charged with attempted murder, and more importantly he shouldn’t have had a fucking job as a police officer in the first place.
I lived a block away form this when it happened. I was moments away from it and remember the yelling and didn’t know what happened until the next day. It really frightened me how it all panned out. Like yeah, NOBODY IS SAFE FROM THESE ASSHOLES
All went downhill after Marty Crane retired.
Marty Crane was just as much a bastard as the rest though. Regularly acted like he was above the law. Also constantly verbally and emotionally abused his kids.
He also admitted to lying under oath.
Fuck. I forgot about that.
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?
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Discussion about police mentality and tribalism: “let’s just kill rich people”
I mean, why play fair with an opponent who breaks all the rules? Unless you’re a loser?
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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.
I think it’s actually worse than just defeating the purpose. The good ones will leave their cams on all the time and be more likely to be pushed out by the bad ones over something petty, with evidence.
they impose invasive drug tests on people [as an extremely minor, parallel example], they don’t deserve a fucking bit of privacy
If you would allow that bathroom exception they would be pissing on corpses
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.
AFAIK spd still reports overtime on paper forms, often long after the work was done.
https://crosscut.com/2016/04/seattle-police-department-out-of-control-overtime
SPOG is a stain on this city. They protect the worst and leave decent cops out to hang.
Because they have guns and apparently the ability to use them indiscriminately.
How the fuck do you say that a human life has “Limited Value”, and then not immediately have a “Are we the baddies?” moment
How the fuck do you say that a human life has “Limited Value”, and then not immediately have a “Are we the baddies?” moment
It’s what happens when your humanity has been trained out of you.
Also in this case I suspect racism
Yeah I thought the same thing when I saw the victim’s name. Really unfortunate too because human life has intrinsic value of course…
In order to be a baddie, you generally need to be super self-righteous. Cops are always self-righteous.
Seattle Police have known they are the baddies for a long time and it’s why they sign up for the job.
Mike Solan purposely put his address as the east precinct so that he could vote in that district. He does not live in Seattle. That is a felony. The SPD willingly vote for a felon to head their union.
I fucking hate SPOG.
Police and prosecutors are allowed to do that where I live by law. Maybe the same there?
That was his voting address. That is not legal here. OPA (the committee that reviews complaints against the police and recommend disciplinary action) recommended it be criminally investigated since it is a class C felony. SPD of course ignored that recommendation completely.
SPD of course ignored that recommendation completely
“Now, son, I don’t make the law. I just have 100% latitude to decide whether to enforce the law, several laws are written such that you can be convicted of felonies with only my testimony, and there are no consequences when I lie under oath.”
Wow, that seems strict, at least if the rule was going to be enforced.
Not sure that I would call that strict considering he was purposely trying to affect an election where he does not live. He is not a police officer, BTW. He is a shithead who blamed January 6th on BLM protesters despite six SPD officers being part of it.
Same here, but their true address is still held somewhere. It’s only the displayed address on a driver’s license that shows the police station/court. Listing it as their address for voting purposes probably is probably murky, and not explicitly allowed or explicitly illegal.
It is explicitly a class C felony. The OPA recommended it be criminally investigated and SPD completely ignored that.
Fair enough. Different states, different rules.
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.
Na, ACAB til we die. Policing should not exist as most crimes are a product of the existence those police uphold.
bonk off to commie jail
bonk against the wall
I’m sorry, but are you saying rape, murder of a spouse, child abuse, etc. are somehow due to the existence of policing? Is there any way you can possibly make me believe that? Please try, if you can, 'cause otherwise I’m just gonna think that I read some MORE total nonsense on the intent today
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.
I’m sorry, ten percent??? That’s insane. How the fuck has it not been dismantled?
That’s (partly) why they got put under consent decree a decade ago! But somehow, it’s ending even though they haven’t improved.
10% of all homicides in Seattle are committed by the police.
A union of serial killers
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.
What a great idea to staff your peacekeeping force exclusively with narcissists and sociopaths.
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.
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”
I dont think so, else he would have used a slur. So most probably he meant, person of no consequence.
In the video, taken in the early morning after Dave hit Kandula in a crosswalk while speeding to respond to a call from a man who believed he had taken too much cocaine, Auderer says he has talked to Dave and he is “good,” adding that ” it does not seem like there’s a criminal investigation going on” because Dave was “going 50 [mph]—that’s not out of control” and because Kandula may not have even been in a crosswalk. Auderer added that Dave had “lights and sirens” on, which video confirmed was not true.
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.
Jail or worse, immediately.
It’s almost as if that cop has lost some of his humanity. Auderer, I mean. While this may be something that people can write off as “part of the job” it is unacceptable. Auderer needs to be put on indefinite mental health leave, and the rest of us need to have a long conversation about how we got here and what we’re going to do about it
If I were to kill someone on the job while driving a company vehicle 3x the speed limit, ignoring protocol and several laws, I wouldn’t be put on indefinite paid leave, and I’m willing to bet that you wouldn’t either.
It’s shameful that embarrassment is our path to any shred of accountability.
We are taking about two different cops
74 in a 25 zone, not using lights and sirens, killed someone, and being put on indefinite mental health leave - are you sure?
I’m talking about 2 different officers. The guy actually driving the car is not who I am talking about
ACAB.
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
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.
Why do you gun humping morons slide this stupid shit into every fucking conversation?
Was this woman supposed to have whipped out her ar and start blasting the cop car racing towards her?
+1
Why is the solution to police having guns, more guns?
Maybe less guns is the answer?
Maybe?
How.
You really can’t think of anything.
There have been solutions proposed to tighten gun restrictions or just simply to reduce the issue for decades.
There are examples of entire countries where this shit already works.
Honestly at this point saying just “how” is uninformed or disingenuous.
There have been solutions proposed to tighten gun restrictions or just simply to reduce the issue for decades.
I’m all for licensing and registration, that isn’t however reducing the total number.
There are examples of entire countries where this shit already works.
Yes, in general much smaller countries with a much different culture and the fun one, fascistic countries.
Honestly at this point saying just “how” is uninformed or disingenuous.
It isn’t, there isn’t a workable solution proposed at the moment, it’s insanely complex and simply saying “maybe fewer” is the answer is uninformed or disingenuous.
So get to work on forcing those cops to give up their guns already.
refer you to “what the fuck can we do to stop them?” from the original post, then.
refer you to “So get to work on forcing those cops to give up their guns already” from my comment that you replied to, then.
The “I am rubber you are glue” defense doesn’t work here.
You: “Force cops to give up their guns”
Me: “How?”
You: “Force cops to give up their guns”
Are you trying to say essentially there’s no path forward except the fascist militarization of law enforcement at the sacrifice of all (other than 2A) Constitutional liberty?
I guess the myriad of countries around the world that have heavy gun restrictions and no gun problems aren’t example enough?
No theres just nothing that can be done about americas gun problems. Nothing…
Well if the cops are keeping their guns, then the citizens certainly shall retain that right as well. It is our right anyway, and I’m glad we have that freedom.
Y’all are just going to have to get over your hysterical idea that “getting rid of the guns” is a realistic option. It’s just a simple-minded fantasy due to the fact that our rights are iron-clad, and the millions of unregistered guns in private hands would never be relinquished whether they were banned or not.
I’m not afraid of gun violence, because I can read and understand statistics well enough to comprehend that it’s not a danger significant enough to worry about. It’s not even in the top 10 most common causes of death in the USA. I enjoy a life of general contentment and peace in the USA, doing pretty much whatever the fuck I want on a daily basis, and it is pretty wonderful.
Police have guns in other countries and dont go around shooting people that arent criminals and for no reason. Seems the problem isnt so much the guns but the types or people that are becoming police and the way they are trained. You think there cant be any change because you wont see its affect immediately. It will take time. But it can happen.
Also saying its not even the top 10 cause of death is a bit dumb. So even thought it will help reduce death its not worth dealing with because more people die of other things. Sure.
Nothing she could have done, but as the old saying goes: “can’t corner the Dorner!”
Read the original comment again but very, very slowly.
Also, the same can be said for anti-gun people as well. I don’t even talk about guns on here anymore because every time you mention them, you have a bunch of snobs from both sides looking to start a big ass fight over shit totally unrelated to the topic.
Have you ever actually applied any real world logic to this fantasy scenario of yours? It ends up with you extremely and irrevocably dead.
It’s not even the being dead part. Ask yourself, “Is this the society you want? Is this how it should function?”
When forced to interact with them, do you give more respect to flies or wasps?
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?
Very few, if we’ve been paying attention. Which protests/riots had more cops willing to shoot at those involved? The heavily armed ‘marches’ that we’ve seen, or the large crowds of unarmed individuals? Sure, some of that may have been because of bias from the police, but I guarantee most of it was because they were afraid of starting a shooting when there was the possibility of being shot back at.
Afghanis had no issues
Unless you count the 200,000 who died.
I mean, they DID go against almost every country around them and the US military.
That part is so obvious as to go unsaid
Yeah well they had the CIA on their side and we don’t
