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Port of Tacoma: Eleven Days of Resistance

April 2007

Photo: Tacoma Protestors before confinement

by Wally Cuddeford

The 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, a Stryker unit based out of Fort Lewis, was originally set to deploy in May of this year.1 However, George Bush's "Surge" strategy moved their deployment date up two months. [1] Because of this, the unit had to skip crucial desert training at Fort Irwin in California, and train only here at Fort Lewis. [2]

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What can be done to bring Police Accountability to Olympia?

August 2005

by Drew Hendricks

Each year, the City of Olympia spends around ten million dollars on Police, Crime Prevention, and the City's Jail. In contrast, the budget for the City Council's Police Auditor is just $20,000 per year, and that paltry amount of money is usually not all spent by the time the budget rolls over into the next year.

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Olympia Police TASER use dropped dramatically in February, March and April of 2005

July 2005

by Drew Hendricks

Olympia Police used force on 43 occasions in the first four months of 2005, but only used TASERS in four cases of the 27 times force was reported used in February through April 2005. This is a drop from the previous monthly average of 4.5 TASER uses per month seen in the previous two years.

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Olympia Police Department: September 2004 Use of Force

April 2005

Table: OPD Taser Stats for Septermber 2004

[Web-site editor's note: The following table does not format well with the software we're using to manage this web-site, but we include it here so search-engines can find this page. Please click on the graphic to see formatting.]

Date Case Number Type of Force Officer

9/4/04 04-6759 Draw and Direct Herbig

9/4/04 04-6759 Draw and Direct Gassett (Rifle)

9/4/04 04-6759 TASER Shot Hovda

9/4/04 04-6759 TASER Shot Gassett

9/7/04 04-6810 Draw and Direct Jordan

9/10/04 04-6909 Bite and Hold Conan (Police Dog)

9/10/04 04-6909 TASER Shot , Missed Hinrichs

9/10/04 04-6909 Gooseneck Wrist Samuelson

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Table: OPD Taser Stats for Septermber 2004

April 2005

Table: OPD Taser Stats for Septermber 2004

Olympia Police Department Taser Stats

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Olympia Copwatch letter to Thurston County Prosecutor Ed Holm

June 2003

From: Copwatch

To: Thurston County Prosecutor: Ed Holm

May 8, 2003

Dear Mr. Holm,

A member of Copwatch had been waiting for better than 1 month for you to get back to him. No longer.

On April 4th 2003, he presented to you the one page evidence of a faulty investigation by TCSO (Thurston County Sheriffs Office) regarding the shooting of Kent DeBoer by officers Jordan and Brown of the Olympia Police Department.

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