Tanks in the streets?
A tough look at just how militarized police should be. Also: protester demands, a reversal on the consent decree, and a voice of the pandemic.
Individual segments are available in our podcast stream or at www.kuow.org/record.
Police demilitarization
Recent protests have catapulted concepts like police abolition and demilitarization into the spotlight. To understand how demilitarization and other reforms could change King County policing, we spoke with county councilmember Girmay Zahilay.
Councilmember Tammy Morales
What about in Seattle? In the city council chambers, councilmember Tammy Morales has been speaking with protesters and using those conversations to challenge chief Carmen Best on the city’s police response.
What is a consent decree?
Seattle police have been under a consent decree since 2012 over unconstitutional use of force. This week, City Attorney Pete Holmes rescinded his petition to have the decree removed. To explain what a consent decree is and why the about-face, Bill Radke was joined by Crosscut’s David Kroman.
Voices of the Pandemic: Dave Vorhees
During the stay at home order, we’ve heard many stories of businesses struggling to make it through this. After 41 years, Bop Street Records in Ballard is one business that will be shutting its doors. Owner Dave Vorhees shared his story in KUOW’s Voices of the Pandemic series.
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Bill Radke
Host
Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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