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#495 - Police and FBI infiltration of Portland protests raises questions
May 03, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBAn unnamed informant. Plainclothes FBI agents. Tactics typically used in drug cases or serious crimes are being used by police monitoring protests in Portland, according to court records. Activists and civil rights attorneys fear this police surveillance may violate the right to free speech - a risk they worry outweighs any potential benefit. “I think it has a potential chilling impact on First Amendment speech,” said J. Ashlee Albies, a civil rights attorney in Portland. Albies worries t...
#494 - Growing trash pile in NE Portland won't be removed despite rat infestation
May 02, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBThere has been a pile of trash at the corner of Burnside and Northeast 160th Avenue for nearly a year. It has caused a rat infestation and even caught fire at one point, yet the city has said it doesn't meet the criteria for removal. Random items, including a car door and baby items, started piling up months ago and now span nearly half a block, according to Merry Skuse, who lives in an apartment complex nearby. "It's been growing more and more but it's been here for a year," said Skuse. S...
#492 - FBI task force will help fight Portland gun violence; 20 Portland officers to be federally deputized
April 30, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBA new FBI-led task force will work with Portland police to build cases against people responsible for the dire rise in shootings in and around the city. The agreement to create a multi-agency Metro Safe Streets Task Force came after much behind-the-scenes negotiation and a guarantee to set boundaries on the participation of Portland officers. They will be deputized as federal officers but won’t do any immigration or crowd control enforcement in coordination or on behalf of federal law enfo...
#493 - Seattle clears camp near Capitol Hill school amid change to homelessness charter amendment
April 30, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBSeattle city crews on Friday removed a controversial homeless camp that had taken root near a Seattle Public Schools campus on the same day that a proposed amendment to the city charter was modified. City Hall was also abuzz after it was revealed that the Seattle police officer that had previously headed the Navigation Team, which worked to relocate encampments, had resigned after it was found that she had abused her authority. The city cleanup at Miller Playfield in Capitol Hill occurred ...
#491 - Proposal to address homelessness in Seattle city charter met with intrigue, skepticism
April 29, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBAs business leaders and lobbyists were writing Compassion Seattle, a voter initiative to address street homelessness through changes to the city’s charter, Gordon McHenry Jr. agreed to provide input, hoping to improve a document he thought could stoke political discord. And when the campaign went public earlier this month, the United Way of King County executive director provided a statement for the launch, praising a clause in the proposed charter amendment that would require the city to q...
#490 - Why are there no homeless camps in Bellevue public parks?
April 29, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.6 MBThere are homeless individuals in Bellevue, just like most other cities, but you won’t find tents or encampments in public parks, on ballfields, or on sidewalks. That’s because before Bellevue police remove homeless campers from public spaces, they say they first try to find alternate housing for them. “We work our way through the process, we do the educational side first, offer the resources, but in the end, in many cases, it would come to something where we would then take enforcement ac...
#489 - Bernie Madoff, financier behind largest Ponzi scheme in history, dies in prison
April 28, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBBernard Madoff, the one-time Wall Street titan who orchestrated one of the largest frauds in history, has died in prison aged 82. Madoff, known as Bernie, was a former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange, and was regarded for years as an investment sage. But unbeknown to his thousands of victims, he was running a Ponzi scheme that wiped out at least $17.5bn in savings. Imposing a 150-year sentence in 2009, judge Denny Chin called Madoff’s crimes “extraordinarily evil”. His criminal behav...
#488 - Vandalism costs keep piling up for small businesses in Seattle
April 28, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBCivil unrest continues to take a heavy toll on businesses that are already reeling from pandemic closures. Repairing the damage done by vandals and cleaning up graffiti is costing businesses in Seattle a small fortune - even if they have insurance. The price to repair a single broken window at a business can range anywhere from $2,000 up to $12,000. Some people will say “that’s what insurance is for.” But sometimes, small businesses have to shell out thousands of dollars in deductibles fi...
#487 - Seattle really is ‘CRAZYTOWN’ — and it will be our salvation after a rough yea
April 27, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBIt’s not news that bad news is what sizzles. And in the past year, nobody has gotten scorched like Seattle. From being pandemic ground zero and then riot central and then homelessness cautionary tale, the city’s image has been roughed up and made into the butt of jokes nationally — especially by the conservative press. For a while, Fox News’ Sean Hannity labeled any report on his show about Seattle with one all-caps signifier: CRAZYTOWN. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Prope...
#486 - Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speak out about destructive street protests
April 26, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBSeattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Tuesday that the city is working on new methods to protect freedom of speech while holding protesters accountable for acts of vandalism committed during demonstrations. Her comments come hours after store front windows were shattered and graffiti splashed on walls during a Monday night march to protest the shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer near Minneapolis. “We will support those people who protest peacefully but the people who come just bent on ...
#485 - CNN reporter confronted during Minnesota protests in heated on-air interview: ‘Get away from here’
April 26, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBCNN reporter Sara Sidner was reporting live on protests over the police killing of Daunte Wright in suburban Minneapolis on Monday as tear gas billowed behind her and fireworks lit up the sky when a man in a camouflage vest interrupted her. “Y’all be twisting up the story,” he said in a video clip that has since gone viral online. For nearly two minutes of extraordinary live television, the man berated Sidner and accused the swarm of videographers and reporters on the scene of misrepresent...
#483 - Biden seeks to ease housing shortage with $5 billion 'carrot, no stick' approach
April 23, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBPresident Joe Biden is seeking to ease a national affordable housing shortage by pushing local governments to allow apartment buildings in neighborhoods that are currently restricted to single-family homes. The $5 billion plan could inject the White House into a debate pitting older homeowners against younger workers seeking to gain a foothold in the most expensive U.S. cities, where many families spend a third or more of their income on housing. The proposal, which would provide financial...
#484 - Downtown Portland parks at center of racial justice protests to undergo $150K restoration
April 23, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBA pair of prominent public squares in downtown Portland will remain shuttered for up to two months as the city seeks to restore the civic spaces damaged by political unrest and housing instability. Workers erected metallic fencing around the perimeters of Chapman and Lownsdale squares Friday that will not come down while crews labor to spruce them up over the next six to eight weeks, officials with Portland Parks & Recreation said. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties N...
#482 - Downtown Seattle businesses damaged, riot declared in Portland in wake of Minnesota police shooting
April 22, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBPolice say several businesses were vandalized in downtown Seattle during marches Monday night in protest of the police shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota, while in Portland, police declared a riot. Wright, 20, was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, a city of about 30,000 people on the northwest border of Minneapolis. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: http...
#480 - Crime Survey by SoDo Businesses Finds More Incidents than that Reported by Seattle Police
April 21, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBBusiness owners in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood who are upset with City Hall's handling of crime and homeless in the city’s biggest industrialized area have released a survey that paints a grim picture of conditions in the neighborhood. The group's survey found that 70 percent of those surveyed said their workers feel unsafe working in the area and three out of 10 businesses have had employees quit over "non-COVID related public safety concerns." The survey was conducted by the SoDo Busines...
#481 - 'Another Family Losing their Home': SF Transplants are Displacing Tahoe Locals
April 21, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MB“Another family losing their home,” the post began. “Owners have decided to move up from the Bay and we have 60 days. I know this is a long shot with how crazy everything is right now, but we are a family of four plus a kitty looking for a rental in the basin.” When Rachael Brigham posted that message to a popular Facebook group for Tahoe Truckee locals on March 24, she was desperate. Her landlord dropped the news just a few days before their lease expired on April 1: They were moving to Ta...
#479 - The New Wasteland: COVID-19’s Shameful Legacy
April 20, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBDiscarded surgical masks strewn along the sidewalk aptly represent COVID-19’s lasting legacy. The federal medical bureaucracy’s response to the pandemic has resulted in a wasteland of lost economic and educational opportunities, psychologically damaged children, terminally lonely nursing home residents, and lives lost to suicide, illicit drug overdoses, and missed diagnoses. Thanks to the lockdowns, 140,104 businesses were temporarily closed and 97,966 were permanently closed by September 2...
#478 - Seattle-area housing market is ‘on steroids’; see what’s happening near you
April 19, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIn the year since the coronavirus pandemic first took hold, the Seattle-area housing market has not just rebounded. The market is “on steroids,” said Seattle-area broker Raché Boston. Prices are up. Inventory is flying off the market. Home showings draw lines of potential buyers down the driveway, and multiple all-cash offers. List prices can feel like a mere suggestion. “I knew it was going to be hard,” said buyer Lis Manning, who with her husband recently bought a four-bedroom house in ...
#478 - Seattle-area housing market is ‘on steroids’; see what’s happening near you
April 19, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIn the year since the coronavirus pandemic first took hold, the Seattle-area housing market has not just rebounded. The market is “on steroids,” said Seattle-area broker Raché Boston. Prices are up. Inventory is flying off the market. Home showings draw lines of potential buyers down the driveway, and multiple all-cash offers. List prices can feel like a mere suggestion. “I knew it was going to be hard,” said buyer Lis Manning, who with her husband recently bought a four-bedroom house in ...
#477 - CDC Officials Have Updated Guidance to Advise Against Disinfecting Surfaces Regularly
April 19, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBIt's time to stop obsessively Clorox-ing every surface and object, U.S. health officials announced Monday. An army of sanitizing robots, round-the-clock cleaning staffs and UV lamp-wielding workers is being called off by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has deemed the risk of contracting COVID-19 by touching surfaces 'low.' Schools, businesses, and households have spent millions collectively over the past year in an effort to step up cleaning practices and mak...
#476 - Portland Approves $6 Million Plan to Prevent Gun Violence
April 18, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBPortland City Council approved a $6 million proposal Wednesday to try to slow a sharp increase in gun violence that has the city on pace to shatter the previous one-year homicide record set over three decades ago. The last-minute agreement is a compromise between the mayor and the council’s three newest commissioners, who pushed the mayor to find an answer to the skyrocketing number of shootings that didn’t include earmarking new funds for the police bureau. The three commissioners got muc...
#475 - Bill Maher Says Portland Police Departures are ‘a Cautionary Tale’
April 17, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBIn his latest comments on Portland, HBO’s Bill Maher touched on the topic of police, and referred to the departure of Portland police officers as “a cautionary tale,” warning, “We do not want to live in a world without police. Then it’s ‘The Purge’ every night.” During the most recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host said he was heartened to see members of law enforcement testify in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and be willing to critic...
#473 - Oregon's Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket
April 16, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBOregon's largest newspaper, The Oregonian, has published a mea culpa over their previous endorsement of defunding the police, after 266 shootings and 25 homicides in the first quarter of 2021. In fact, in a Monday article from the paper's editorial board, they heaped praise on the city's gun violence reduction team and defended the mayor's recent proposal to restart the 'canceled' unit after a spate of violence ensued. The paper then slams the city council for ignoring the "reality of the t...
#474 - Newsom’s Experiment to Get Rid of Public Trash Bins in San Francisco Seems to Have Failed
April 16, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIt’s no secret that much of San Francisco’s trash — especially so in neighborhoods like the Mission, Tenderloin and Mission Dolores — ends up on the sidewalks. Christine, a property owner who lives on 21st Street near Mission Street, was outside her home picking up small pieces of detritus with a pincer-armed grabbing tool one morning. “In an ideal world, people would have somewhere to put their trash,” she says. But in San Francisco, that place would be on the sidewalk or the steps of Chr...
#471 - Seattle Parents Shocked After Learning Students Will Return To Schools With Homeless Encampments
April 15, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBSeattle students will begin a return to in-classroom learning in April, but parents were left shocked after learning that homeless encampments, located on the grounds of two schools welcoming kids back, will likely remain even after the schools reopen. “As students at Seattle Public Schools start to return for in-person learning following the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the district continues to grapple with the presence of two homeless encampments that have taken root on a pair of the di...
#472 - Violence in a South Seattle Parking Lot Prompts a Call to Action
April 15, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBGhianna Creer smiled as she ambled around a Safeway parking lot in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood on a recent drizzly Friday evening. She and some of her team members chatted as they blasted music and handed out plates of hot wings and hamburgers. It seemed like a laid-back night, but the group couldn’t have been more alert. Creer, 21, was recently hired by the Boys & Girls Club of King County’s Safe Passage program, in which she and her team monitor public safety in Rainier Beach — ...
#470 - Portland Park Ranger: 'We Are Not the Police of the Parks, and we’re Not Going to be.’
April 14, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBA proposal to hire more park rangers to help stem Portland’s dramatic rise of shootings and gun deaths over the last year stunned one of Portland’s longest-serving park rangers. Dave Barrios, who has worked as a ranger for 15 years after 30 years as a police officer, said he knew nothing about the proposal by three commissioners. They didn’t come to him, he said, but if they had, he would have told them the approach is risky and impractical. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit P...
#469 - Cleaning up Portland’s Homeless Camps Will Take the City About 2 Years, Officials Say
April 14, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBPortland officials say it may take the city two years to clean up the piles of trash and debris generated by homeless encampments during the coronavirus pandemic. The city’s Homeless and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program estimates it will need 18 to 24 months to bring the growing waste problem under control once it resumes regular camp removals, budget documents show. City officials don’t have a firm timeline for when that ramp up will occur. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Sum...
#468 - Tensions build as Seattle seeks to resume parking enforcement
April 13, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBWhen Seattle stopped enforcing its 72-hour parking limit in March 2020, it meant Neal Lampi could stay put for a little while. He still occasionally moves the RV in which he lives, but nothing like the “musical chairs” of before. His current parking spot, on Third Avenue South, has been home for the past two months. Mayor Jenny Durkan said last month that the 72-hour limit would return on April 1, just over a year since its pause. Businesses are reopening, said her one-sentence announcement...
#467 - Housing Advocates Say Evictions are Continuing at 'Full Steam,' Despite a Federal Ban
April 13, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 26.3 MBOn March 26, a sheriff’s deputy walked up to a one-story brick home in a suburb of North Tulsa, Oklahoma, and told the woman inside it was time to leave. She called Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma in a panic. Eric Hallett, the attorney on the phone, instructed her to grab important documents and medicine. There was a chance she wouldn’t be allowed to return. The woman and her partner — who lived in the home with five children, ranging in age from 1 to 17 — had thought they were going to be ...
#465 - Seattle Dad Says Local Park is ‘Completely Encased with Encampments’
April 12, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBAfter hearing about the homeless encampments that have taken over fields in Ballard and are preventing local Little League teams from being able to play, others have spoken up about similar problems in different neighborhoods of Seattle. A listener named Erick contacted KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show and shared photos from Miller Playfield, near Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Dori had previously said that he’d like to think that when his kids were young, the dads (or moms) would have ...
#466 - Homebuyers in Seattle Area Will Have Challenges, Opportunities After COVID
April 12, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBBuyers in the market to purchase real estate may hope that real estate prices will be cheaper and easier after the COVID19 pandemic has subsided, but many consumers should not expect to see lower prices, according to a forecast by a prominent online real estate firm. Officials at Redfin said, however, that the rise in prices won't be as fast as in previous years. “A couple of factors will cause home value growth to slow down," said Daryl Fairweather, the company's chief economist. "I expec...
#464 - Bank of Canada Governor Sees ‘Worrying’ Signs in Housing Marke
April 11, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBThe Bank of Canada is seeing “worrying” signs that some Canadians are taking on too much debt to buy into the nation’s hot housing market. In an interview with the Financial Post, Governor Tiff Macklem said there is evidence that loan levels relative to home values are growing -- an indication that some borrowers could be overextending. He also warned people have begun to make purchases based on “Canadians are stretching and that is worrying.” Macklem said. “If Canadians are basing their ...
#463 - Commissioners Want More Cash, Not Cops, in Gun Violence Fight
April 10, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBSome members of the Portland City Council have put forth a proposal aimed at combatting gun violence in the city and it does not include increased funding for police. The proposal, which KOIN 6 News obtained Thursday from the office of Commissioner Carmen Rubio, is in response to a $2 million proposal floated by Mayor Ted Wheeler for the Portland Police Bureau’s Enhanced Community Safety Team. “When the Mayor brought forward his proposal, he also offered space for feedback and collaboratio...
#462 - Recall Effort Against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant Can Move Forward
April 09, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 12.5 MBThe Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the recall campaign against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant to move forward, paving the way for signature-gathering and, potentially, an election this year that could oust Sawant from office. Recall petitioners now have 180 days to collect more than 10,000 signatures from residents of Sawant’s Council District 3. If they collect the signatures, a recall election — an up-or-down vote on Sawant — would be held, either with the ge...
#461 - 'It's Frustrating': Growing Homeless Xamp on Seattle School Property Concerns Neighbors
April 08, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBA growing homeless encampment is operating on the property of a Seattle School and it's left the Bitter Lake community outraged. Neighbors have been calling on Seattle Public Schools for months to remove the camp that they say has brought increasing problems to their neighborhood. It’s located directly behind Broadview-Thomson K-8 at 13052 Greenwood Ave North. Inside the school, preschool and special education students are already back in class after a year at home because of the pandemic...
#460 - 'They Can't Keep Up': Portland Police Overwhelmed by Nightly Gun Violence
April 08, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBNight after night, Portland's streets see more violence and police say they're overwhelmed. Three people died in three separate incidents overnight. Portland police say someone was shot at a convenience store in the 1900 block of North Lombard Street in the Kenton neighborhood around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The victim was taken to a hospital where he died. Police say he was a customer at the store, and they are investigating what happened. But this is one of many shootings they're looking i...
#458 - Where Seattle-area Home Prices are Rising Fastest as Region is Among National Leaders
April 07, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBSeattle’s housing market started the new year with a milestone: Housing prices here have been growing at the second-fastest rate in the nation for a full year. For the 12th month in a row, only Phoenix outpaced the Seattle area for year-over-year home price growth in January, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index released Tuesday. The index measures price growth in 20 metro areas, reports a three-month rolling average of home prices and lags by two months. The data re...
#459 - Tiny Houses are Getting More Expensive, and Owners are Struggling to Afford Them
April 07, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIn 2016, Carley Jackson was living in Louisiana when a natural disaster flooded half the state. With her apartment destroyed, she was forced to move into a hotel for a month. At that moment, Jackson decided to fast-track her dream of living in a tiny house, something she had been fantasizing about for a decade. She moved to Austin - a more tiny-house-friendly city - in 2019, and while there, she saved as much money as she could for her future home. But, in 2021, Jackson learned her tiny-ho...
#457 - Intruder Discovered Living in Basement of Magnolia Home
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 18 MBA couple in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood found a stranger living in their basement and eating their food. The suspect managed to stay hidden from the homeowners for nearly two days and even told police “that he could hear voices and footsteps coming from upstairs,” according to court documents. The couple only made the discovery after they heard a strange noise and called police, suspecting a burglar. Officers did a search and found a man inside – who had brought in his belongings and ma...
#456 - The Real Crisis In Olympia is Not Homelessness
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 35.2 MBOur regional government has been treating our problems solely as a homeless issue, but it is far greater. It also involves mental illness, substance abuse and crime. Each piece of the problem needs solutions. Housing, especially affordable rent, is a large component, but addiction, an emerging street subculture and law enforcement are factors we have been reticent to address directly as we watch our city decay in real time. People are upset about changing norms for what is considered permis...
#457 - Intruder Discovered Living in Basement of Magnolia Home
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 18 MBA couple in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood found a stranger living in their basement and eating their food. The suspect managed to stay hidden from the homeowners for nearly two days and even told police “that he could hear voices and footsteps coming from upstairs,” according to court documents. The couple only made the discovery after they heard a strange noise and called police, suspecting a burglar. Officers did a search and found a man inside – who had brought in his belongings and ma...
#454 - San Francisco to Pay 'Essential' Artists $1,000 Month Basic Income in Pilot Program Amid Pandemic
April 05, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBYou could call it art for art's sake -- plus $1,000 a month. San Francisco plans to start paying 130 local artists $1,000 a month starting in May through the fall in a pilot program announced on Thursday. It follows other so-called "universal basic income" efforts being launched in California amid the coronavirus pandemic. "From the first day the pandemic arrived in San Francisco, we knew that this health crisis would impact artists, and artists of color in particular," Mayor London Bree...
#455 - Italian Mafia Fugitive Caught in Dominican Republic After Police Find YouTube Cooking Show
April 05, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 16 MBA mafia fugitive has been arrested in the Dominican Republic after inadvertently tipping off police with his culinary hobby. After seven years on the run, Marc Feren Claude Biart was tracked down through a YouTube cooking channel he started with his wife, Italian police said in a statement. The alleged gangster's "love for Italian cuisine” — and tattoo ink — made his arrest possible, police said. Though he carefully hid his face during the videos, Biart failed to disguise a distinctive gi...
#453 - A Closed Skating Rink will be Vonverted into a Homeless Shelter Named after Alex Trebek
April 04, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBA skating rink in Los Angeles set to be converted into a homeless shelter will bear the name of the late Alex Trebek, the famed host of "Jeopardy!" Trebek, who hosted the popular game show for more than three decades, made a donation to the California-based Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission back in November, when the organization was attempting to purchase the closed Skateland rink, CNN affiliate KCAL reported. At the time, the non-profit, which works against poverty and homelessness, want...
#452 - Remaining Homeless People Told to Leave Fenced-off Echo Park Lake; LAPD Detains Dozens of Protesters
April 04, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThe remaining homeless people living along Echo Park Lake were to leave by 10:30 p.m. as police continued to clash with protesters for a second night Thursday over the clearing of the long-running encampment there. Los Angeles police declared an unlawful assembly shortly after 8 p.m. to begin clearing a crowd of about 250 protesters and media from the area of Lemoyne Street and Park Avenue, after some demonstrators began flashing lights at officers in riot gear. Join your host Sean Reynol...
#450 - Carjacker Hits Multiple Vehicles, Speeds Through Group of Seattle Protesters
April 03, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBSeattle police arrested a suspected carjacker Thursday night, after he was alleged to have driven the stolen vehicle through a crowd of protesters. Roughly 100 people gathered around 6 p.m. Thursday at Cal Anderson Park, as part of a call to defund the Seattle Police Department and “invest in Black communities.” The group — which included Seattle council candidate and local activist Nikkita Oliver — marched downtown and stopped in front of SPD’s West Precinct. While marchers were moving th...
#451 - California Court Rules it's Unconstitutional to Detain People in Jail Because They Can't Afford Bail
April 03, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.3 MBCalifornia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it is unconstitutional to keep people behind bars simply because they cannot afford bail. The unanimous decision signals that going forward, California judges will be required to assess a defendant's ability to pay bail when they set it. "What we hold is that where a financial condition is nonetheless necessary, the court must consider the arrestee's ability to pay the stated amount of bail — and may not effectively detain the arrestee 'sol...
#449 - City Council Pledges It Will Take Parks Off the Table for Shelters
April 01, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBIn a public hearing Wednesday afternoon, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and city commissioners said they never intended to allow temporary shelters in city parks as a way to ease Portland homelessness, and pledged to remove language that might have done that. The promise follows a week of outcry directed at City Hall, including from former elected officials, at the idea of using parks as shelter sites, even for short periods. City Commissioner Carmen Rubio said she and her colleagues don't wan...
#447 - A Hotel for Homeless People Opens in Downtown Seattle Today
March 31, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBIt’s more than a year after the pandemic cut downtown tourism to ribbons and forced many of Seattle’s homeless shelters to empty out or relocate, but on Wednesday, the city will begin leaning into a strategy that brings those two problems together: putting homeless people up in hotels. Almost 140 people will be moving into the historic Executive Hotel Pacific downtown starting Wednesday. They’re joining more than 800 people staying in hotels around the county, many of whom moved in last yea...