by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Right around 2008, as the United States housing market was collapsing in on itself, something unusual happened in the Seattle Police Department: the year-to-year increases of SPD’s overtime budget started turning south, declining every year until 2012. Meanwhile,...
by rondelord | Mar 21, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
When Mayor Ed Murray brought in Kathleen O’Toole to head the Seattle Police Department, he did so with the goal of ushering in the department’s federally mandated reforms. On Friday, O’Toole announced her largest step toward that goal so far, hiring four new assistant...