By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Despite what the media wants you to believe, not all murders are committed with firearms. Knives and what the FBI considers “cutting instruments” are used in roughly 10-percent of all killings. And there are no background checks on knives. Murders involving firearms usually draw far more attention and […]
Downtown Seattle Becoming a ‘No Man’s land?’
Once proclaimed the “Emerald City” in an effort to enhance its image as a Pacific Northwest metropolis, the city of Seattle has become a train wreck of politics and now it appears even King County government workers believe the downtown area is a hell hole. Beginning Monday, employees at the King County Courthouse will receive […]
Damning Report in WA: Less Cops, More Murders (Despite Gun Control Laws)
The annual report on Evergreen State crime from the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) contains some alarming data showing homicides have risen 66.9 percent statewide since 2016, but the number of commissioned law enforcement officers per 1,000 population ranks at the bottom for the entire nation. Last year, according to a synopsis […]
Seattle Trimming Police Budget as Minneapolis Cries for Help
While Seattle’s far-left City Council is currently mulling a budget with cuts to the police department, they might take a lesson from the situation that has developed in Minneapolis, where cuts were already made, and now the city is seeking help from outside law enforcement agencies because of a “wave of violent crime,” according to […]
Does Newspaper Downplay Law Enforcement Opposition to I-1639?
UPDATED: As law enforcement opposition to Washington State’s gun control Initiative 1639 continues to climb, a report on the measure – the only gun control ballot issue anywhere in the country this fall – in the Seattle Times appears to downplay it by noting that the measure “has support from some of King County’s top […]
Newspaper: ‘Initiatives are…a lousy way to write laws’ – No on I-1639
An editorial in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin that appeared just as tens of thousands of hunters were heading into the field for the deer season opener urged voters to reject gun control Initiative 1639—the only gun measure on a ballot anywhere in the United States this year—because “Initiatives are generally a lousy way to […]