RantWoman, as a VERY frequent pedestrian, is SO tired of Officer Kevin Dave and all the circumstances connected with the death of #JaahnaviKandula.
That said, RantWoman is severely annoyed about collapsing everything that went wrong into a $5000 traffic fine levied against one police officer--and RantWoman realizes that fighting the ticket MAY be an interesting way to get to more public clarity about many points still roiling RantWoman's soul.
By contrast, RantWoman is still incensed that Officer Auderer wants $20 million for comments that should outrage every non-driver in the city and that are a global embarrassment and stain on Seattle's reputation worldwide. But RantWoman digresses. Back to poking at more details, from the perspective of a naive outsider fully prepared for the possibility of reading situations wrong..
"No, I'm not all right!" Possibly the most sincere and appropriate words of this entire tragedy!
Consider reporting so far.
"Driver's license required?"
RantWoman would love to banish that exact phrase from MANY job descriptions, but unfortunately not police officer. Last RantWoman read, does Officer Dave even have a current driver's license? If not, why is he even on the streets?
Oh wait, weren't there some dodgy things already in his driving record before he was even hired?
And who, Officer Dave or some kind of city policy is responsible for Officer Dave driving 74 mph on the way to a reported drug overdose? Why send a police officer instead of just a medic?
On one hand, a $5000 traffic and turning a person's death into a mere traffic fine outrages the soul.
On the other hand, there are plenty of ways, apparently, that the city of Seattle screwed up too.
--Hiring Officer Dave in the first place
--Whatever the policy is about lights and siren and analyzing whether Officer Dave was folloing them.
--Whatever the policy is about police response to drug overdoses.
And speaking of Officer Auderer:
--RantWoman is not an expert about how quickly different substances clear the body, but isn't 90 minutes for a drive from Olympia a long time to wait for impairment testing? RantWoman does not have any reason to think Officer Dave was impaired, only that would there possibly be another officer, perhaps from a nearby jurisdiction who might have been able to do the impairment testing sooner than 90 minutes after the crash.
--Why has no one held a vigil about conflict of interest issues if a union officer is the person doing impairment testing on another officer in the same department? What options might there be to adjust this protocol?
There are many resources online that can probably answer some of RantWoman's questions. RantWoman, alas, hopes, rather than doing the digging herself, to inspire journalists to please go look and report.
Update:
Update 9 6 2024: Probably could have seen this one coming.
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