After a turbulent month of protest against the Seattle Police Department with much of the anti-police activity centered right here in the East Precinct, a group of department spouses and supporters is bringing their weekly effort to hold a pro-law SPD rally to 12th and Pine Monday night. Here’s the announcement posted to Facebook by Candace Bond Peplowski:
Slog covered last week’s first rally held downtown at West Precinct HQ (Image: The Stranger)
“Support Rally” for Seattle Police Officers
Monday, March 28 · 6:30pm – 8:30pmEast Precinct
1519 12th Ave.Thank you all for your interest, support, and ideas. I really feel that simplicity is the key for making the biggest impact. So for now my plan is to go to one precinct a week and have a “support rally”. Stand outside the precinct and hold signs of support. Showing the officers that they are not alone. Media attention would be great but it is not the ultimate goal. The goal is to boost morale in showing them they have support fr…om us. In talking to my husband we agreed that the best time to reach the most officers would be between 2nd and 3rd. watch. Two hours of one night for those that give their lives is worth it. Remember invite as many family members, co-workers and whoever else, as you possibly can we would love to have the biggest turnout possible. If you would like to bring a snack for the breakroom That would be a plus. Remember keep our signs positive, general and supportive.
According to the online event notice, 19 people are planning to attend.
UPDATE: A common comment on posts about these rallies has been to make note that a lot of these families live outside the city — we already have a reference in the first comment, below. If you’re interested in where SPD families actually do live, our partner at SeattleCrime reported the breakdown of SPD residency last month. We helped with the infographic, shared here. Of the more than 1300 officers included in the data, just over 200 lived in the city.
Welcome to Socialist Seattle, where we’re all filled with mexican piss and love carving wood!
P.S.: While you’re visiting the city, please spend money. The tax money you spend here pays your husbands’ salaries :)
… so the big racist insult is mexican piss … hey, pig, go somewhere else. No wanted or needed in this great international city. Shit.
To stand around and flip them off and see how long it takes to get harassed by the SPD.
Bringing along a copy of the city ordinance that clearly states honking your horn is only legal in an emergency, so like half of these pro-pig signs are going in the trash if I have anything to do with it.
Thank you SPD for chasing the guy who burglarized my house through yards, over fences, injuring yourselves on my rusty fence to capture the guy who turned out to be a felon with a violent criminal history so long that in court it was clipped together, as staples wouldn’t hold it together. Thank you for finding my car when it was stolen. Thank you for going through my 80 year old mom’s closets looking for a burglar every time she hears a raccoon. And thank you for responding when people were fighting in front of my workplace, blocking my exit. I live in a particularly crime-ridden part of the city, and I thank you, SPD, for making it not the Beirut it was 15 years ago. Thank you also, SPD, for getting back in your single-man patrol cars, alone, and doing your job when 2 cop killer psychos were roaming our streets. And lastly, thank you for commuting in from far away places like Puyallup, because you don’t get paid enough to raise a family in the city. THANK YOU, SPD. There are many, many, MANY of us out here who know that the actions of a few do not define the many. Thank you.
ummm… Seattle cops don’t get paid enough to live in the city? Two words: Bull. Shit. Base pay for an officer is $64,310.40 a year at $30.80 an hour. They also have benefits and regular pay raises every 6 months to a year. This is coming straight from the Seattle.gov site at http://www.seattle.gov/police/jobs/benefits/salary.htm.
I’m not saying that they don’t deserve good pay, but it’s a little ridiculous.
Benji –
I live in Seattle and make 69K per year. The one and only reason I can afford to live in Seattle is that I bought my house more than a decade ago. Good luck being the breadwinner for a family of 4, and being able to afford to buy a house in Seattle on that salary as well as support your wife and kids. Unless you’re going to live in a 2 bedroom in Rainier Valley that is.
Yeah, actually if you look at the City’s job site, landscaping supervisors, who need not even a GED to work, make $4 more an hour than cops. And cops make $5 less an hour than nurses in Seattle did in 2010.
I make $34 an hour sitting in a cubicle, and no one spits on me, shoots at me, or swings at me. I am barely hanging on to my modest CD house which I put 50% down on (and most families cant do that) doing interest only payments. I cannot afford to pay car insurance for my two teenage children, drive an ancient car, am so lucky to have medical insurance and still struggle to pay the % left after the insurance plus the 6K per kid orthodontist bills. Not to mention all the other expenses of having kids, and the $400 per month property tax, and the homewowners insurnace, and the utilities and food costs of having a family. I honestly have absolutely no idea how families just starting out could do it on my wage and stay in the city. We pay our city landscapers better than we pay our cops.