Crime is on the rise in the State of Washington. However, a law restricting police pursuits keeps authorities from doing everything they can to fight it.
Thanks to Democrats in Olympia and Gov. Jay Inslee (D), police have lost most of their ability to pursue fleeing suspects. Even when they think they have their suspect who refuses to pull over. The bill, which sailed through the state legislature, also limits the use of less-lethal weapons and forbids chokeholds and neck restraints.
The result: Washington State Patrol has confirmed over 1,000 drivers have ignored flashing lights from troopers in their rearview mirrors. A suspect driving on a suspended license even called 911 and told the dispatcher to call off the chase. Things got worse earlier this month.
Deputies outside Spokane watched with mounting frustration as a burglary suspect they couldn't pursue careened into a local lumberyard. He fled the scene.
The Center Square reports:
“This law is exceptionally frustrating to deputies and to the victim,” said Spokane County Undersheriff John Nowels. “The rule of law is the bedrock of a civil society, and this policy is empowering people to disobey the law.”
Commercial burglaries in Spokane County, the state's fourth-most populous, have gone up 31% since last year. Home break-ins have increased by 15%.
More alarming, said Nowels, is that vehicle thefts are up 55%, following a statewide trend.
To date in 2022, he said there have been 618 car thefts in the county, a number that already exceeds the total of 426 in 2021.
“We are putting effort into identifying suspects and tracking them, but if they get into a car and take off, we are not allowed to chase them,” said Nowels.
Nowels added that the flagrant disregard for the rule of law provides yet another example of how the state legislature, regardless of its intentions, has failed the people of Washington.
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Looks like Washington state legal system has been taken over by the ultra liberal groups who are adding to our legal problems by not protecting law abiding citizens who are being raped, and attacked, and stolen from because the legal system in their states are being run by those who want our democracy to be destroyed by the gustapos and those communist in our midst.
Every law enforcement officer in the state should just quit and leave that screwed up liberal state. There are openings for them in many cities across the country, at least in the still Red states.The liberal democrats are destroying these United States of America and we only have ourselves to blame.
Just wait until the brainless liberals put Fetterman into office and he releases all the criminals including the most dangerous ones since he considers the punishment unjust. The same people complain about what is going on but still vote for the same corruption.
US Senators do not have the authority to release criminals.
Of course they don’t. But just keep telling yourself this won’t promote his screwed-up policies, and YOU are the problem. In the Army we have a saying….screw-up, move up. Morons in power simply seek to pass problem leaders on, as long as it gets them out of their jurisdiction, assuming others will deal with the problem, instead of them doing what was right in the first place. What their shortsightedness results in is that it just passes the infection up the chain, and then it later bites everyone in the ass, including the morons who first thought they were getting rid of their problem. Making innocuous comments like “Senators do not have the authority to release criminals” only serves to justify your naivety and ignorance regarding how irresponsible local policies become state or federal policies that affect the entire nation.
Not yet!
commie democrat pedophile racist woke cult party destroying America to receive money from china, follow the money!
All LIBRATURDS are BRAIN DEAD
it’s time the people start making these so called reps.take responsibility for their stupidity if they don’t start stopping this stuff throw them in the bay
Does this lead to vigilantes? If the cops cannot chase them, they also cannot chase those who chase them.
You mean the people are not already defending themselves? Say, is it against the law for a citizen to chase them down and then perform a citizens arrest for the police? I think I’d start by arresting the wackos that passed this legislation. In what sane world do these people even exist. Time to take out the trash.
cops need to leave the dem state and go to state that cares. send all the illegals to them.
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Hey American Liberty, will somebody PLEASE SHUT THIS GUY UP??
You vote for dems and this is what you get. No law and order, high crime, high taxes., high prices on food and gas. They care more about the bad jerks that they do for the good people that they are voted to protect. Never trust a dem, there all lying, cheating, corrupt aholes that are in it for themselves. This is one of the reasons that they hated Trump, he put America and its people first
You’re absolutely right but too many brainless sheep are just going along with what they are told since they think that the government will support them forever. I hate to wake them up but once the elites go through the money of the rich and then the working middle class everyone will be equally poor just like in Venezuela. Most of these liberals have no idea about how socialism works. You will soon be experiencing it first hand.
After seeing the shenanigans in the last election, I wonder how many of these people were actually legally put into their positions.
Gjohn, and he exposed just how deep the deep state really is. All about CONTROL.
As a retired Washington State Trooper working out of Spokane, I would be applying for another law enforcement position in a different state.
I don’t understand why the rich insurance companies are not suing the government agencies responsible for this. I guess it is much easier to raise the victims rates instead, and support their reelection. They alwaws get theirs I guess.
So go rob a bank, make it to your car and you’re home free. These guys are idiots!
My favorite part is how even the article writer calls the criminal being watched, AS he commits the crime, the “suspect”. He’s still only “suspected” of doing what he’s doing.
With this new “mustn’t hurt, offend, or label anyone as ‘bad’ if even they are” mentality, it’s no wonder it’s gotten so bad. Not long before criminals aren’t even criminals anymore. They’ll be the “legally challenged.members of our community”, who’s right to disagree with the charges against them will be enough to get them off.
Vigilante time OK nationwide/?
#4 Buckshot, 12 ga. and .45’s for everybody.
If they’re too far away for that, it can give meaning to the words “Varmint Rifle”.
I can hit a prairie dog @ 500 yds. so a scumbag @ 100 yds. is like a 1′ putt in golf.
It’s a “gimmie” ! 😉
The liberals do not want police protection, but when they need them, they bitch about why they aren’t there. Well, you didn’t want them. Well, if you want crime and corruption in your cities, then accept what you want. Go on backwards to the Wild, Wild, West. But when you get what you ask for, don’t call for help, there won’t be any.
What was the legislature thinking?
They have further destroyed law and order intheir state.
Good luck citizens, you’ll need it being led by this ill-informed mess.
‘Oh, the POOR criminals!’ Indeed. What about their POOR VICTIMS?
Anyone who lives through this in Washington and still votes for democrats isn’t an American. I don’t know what they are, but it takes more than an address in America to be an American. Remember that list of words George Carlin had that he couldn’t say on television? They all apply to those who still vote for democrats in Washington. I just call them a’holes. If the shoe fits. Time to take out the trash in Washington.
“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.” — Alexander Hamilton
Let it rot. It’ll soon be like a 3rd world country and richly deserved. astern Washington needs to ensure they don’t move out there. Law enforcement should stay in the donuts shops and watch.
Hey Washingtonians. You voted for these bastards so just STFU. To all cops. Get the fk out of there. Free states are hiring.