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I Want To Do More

By David Packman

Lately I've been trying to think of what more I could do to help reduce police misconduct and detainee abuses. So if anyone has any suggestions please feel free to let me know... as long as it doesn't involve public speaking (I don't talk well anymore because of my head injuries) or my coming into any contact with a member of the Seattle Police Department because I'm sure they wouldn't have any problem finishing the job of slowly and torturously killing me like they tried to do last year.

(speaking of all that, for those that know the story and care, I finally saved up enough money to start treatement at the UW Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation clinic, but unfortunately the soonest they can get me in is the middle of March, I don't know if I can stand these horrendous headaches that much longer, but I have no choice).

In any case... I've been thinking getting a prepaid phone with voicemail and putting up flyers and posters in various neighborhood urging people to call my number to report instances of police misconduct. I'm thinking the citizens of Seattle would be more inclined to call someone who wasn't a police officer to report cases of police misconduct than they would to call the Seattle Police run Office of Professional Accountability. Trust me, when I called to report what happened to me at the hands of their fellow officers, they were none too polite... and with all the reports of brutality and corruption in the news, I'm sure a lot of people are too afraid to report incidents.

I've already been in contact with some city officials in an effort to discuss accountability issues and that's gone well so far I think, at least they seem to listen and have been trying to improve things. Unfortunately the police union really has the upper-hand against the city's efforts to improve accountability and oversight right now, and the police union is apparently fighting tooth and nail to kill those efforts.

Anyhow... Just let me know if anyone has any reasonable ideas about what I can do to help improve the terrifying police misconduct situation here in Seattle.

Thanks for reading.

Full post as published by Injustice in Seattle on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).