Seattle transit agencies pledge more security after string of violent attacks

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Investigators are looking into another violent incident on Seattle-area transit after a man was fatally shot while on board a Metro bus Tuesday evening.
    Both Sound Transit and King County Metro have indicated they are working to strengthen security, but new data from the transit police show there are far fewer officers than current budgets would allow.
    According to the King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO), which operates transit police, Sound Transit Police are budgeted for 87.5 full-time employees but currently have 52. Metro Transit Police is allotted 79 full-time positions and currently has 18 vacancies.
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Комментарии • 73

  • @JamesLaster_NW
    @JamesLaster_NW Год назад +8

    How can you make transit safe in an unsafe city?

  • @CitiZENCAT-ie5dt
    @CitiZENCAT-ie5dt Год назад +11

    This is what they voted for.
    Screw 'em.

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      You vote for the longest modern war in the largest opium producer in HISTORY?

  • @wutrain4259
    @wutrain4259 Год назад +31

    Whoever voted for defund the police should pay triple taxes.

    • @4gg218
      @4gg218 Год назад

      Elected officials that endorsed this ideology should not be eligible for reelection!

    • @MxMe-su1ch
      @MxMe-su1ch Год назад +1

      When was that ever put to a public vote?

    • @MP77USA
      @MP77USA Год назад

      @@MxMe-su1chWhen you voted in the bleeding hearts that think the police are there to chat with a filthy violent drug-ridden criminal.

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      Companies used to pay more than 50%.

  • @vallee7966
    @vallee7966 Год назад +9

    Sure. More security. Sure. When the King County Prosecutor’s Office only knows how to release, not prosecute.

  • @timfeeley714-25
    @timfeeley714-25 Год назад +21

    Other than actually prosecuting criminals and making there be real consequences for their actions it's all just a bunch of hot air!

  • @seattlescofflaws
    @seattlescofflaws Год назад +6

    People have short memories. Safety has been a problem on buses and transit hubs for decades. Adding security is like lipstick on a pig. What can security do? Call 911 so transit cops can show up later if at all?

  • @mishaladara
    @mishaladara Год назад +10

    What a joke..... people pretending it's not a race issue, every 4years they tell us what race 2hate.

  • @Sanwizard1
    @Sanwizard1 Год назад +6

    Impossible! They have strict gun laws!

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      State of Washington is open carry.

    • @Tyler_Owen23
      @Tyler_Owen23 11 месяцев назад

      @@anthonyballard8468you’re not nearly as intelligent as you think you are.

  • @jaybeans80
    @jaybeans80 Год назад +4

    Need to prosecute and put in prison. Need more prisons, more police, need charges to stick. The old way worked better than the current

    • @panicmosem5969
      @panicmosem5969 Год назад +1

      Need work prisons!! Don't send them somewhere to relax and do nothing all day. Have them work for their food, outside privileges, etc. Some states still use it.

    • @R.Oates7902
      @R.Oates7902 Год назад

      ​@@panicmosem5969
      Chain gangs?

    • @panicmosem5969
      @panicmosem5969 Год назад

      @Bekah-lj7ez no, they get to choose to work, just like if they were out. But if they don't work, they don't eat, watch tv, socialize... I'm not talking about elaborate construction or grueling work, but community service work, litter control, storm recovery assistance, etc are beneficial to society and the inmates.

  • @daveerk6573
    @daveerk6573 Год назад +12

    Thank a DEMOCRAT.

    • @Kingmaker33
      @Kingmaker33 Год назад +1

      Hammer Monster is hiding out at Jay Inslee's mansion!

  • @paulb6159
    @paulb6159 Год назад +2

    But I thought we were supposed to defund the police. I'm so confused

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      I mean the country folk did fall for the biggest city slicker in history.

  • @Justmein321
    @Justmein321 Год назад +3

    If the shooter used a 10 rnd mag the prosecutors will be more lineint on him for obeying the Washingtons mag capacity law. He a good boy just a community service will be fine 🙂

  • @savoirfaireethereal4234
    @savoirfaireethereal4234 Год назад

    Metro should have cameras at every bus stop to prevent crime.

  • @saudade2100
    @saudade2100 Год назад +5

    Where's Bernhard Goetz when you need him?

  • @spikedpsycho2383
    @spikedpsycho2383 Год назад +2

    why don't we just end seattle's transit and just give vouchers for people to ride Uber

    • @kfeder76
      @kfeder76 Год назад +1

      Or we could just build a prison on an island and fill it up with these scum bags.

  • @Tyborg425
    @Tyborg425 Год назад +4

    Stay armed my friends

  • @gregspace2
    @gregspace2 Год назад +1

    I thought they wanted to defend the police

  • @HeadStronger-HS
    @HeadStronger-HS Год назад +1

    I thought public transportation was the future?

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      Open drug abuse ain't? ( from the country that brought ya meth labs)

  • @michaeldunwoody3629
    @michaeldunwoody3629 Год назад +4

    Defend the Police! Eh, except in MY neighborhood.....

  • @Blank3tMusic
    @Blank3tMusic 11 месяцев назад

    PJ the most real Seattleite fr

  • @FM19MONTH
    @FM19MONTH Год назад +2

    Thank goodness they will employ security. Thank God they will not be stupid and get tuf on crime. Whew. Close one for the stunning and brave criminals.

  • @dlicious5677
    @dlicious5677 Год назад

    Maybe get rid of the busses and make everyone walk.

  • @thanosianthemadtitanic
    @thanosianthemadtitanic Год назад

    about time my family membee is bus driver. Even in our small town its so dangerous becasue all types of drugged out creatures ride the bus

  • @pacifickaihomesllc3605
    @pacifickaihomesllc3605 Год назад +3

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @shol2218
    @shol2218 Год назад

    Imagine that.. vilify the the protectors, and crime goes up!

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      White women snorting oxycodone, a country giving it's children pharmaceutical speed, THERES YER SIGN.

  • @willyd1977
    @willyd1977 Год назад

    😂😂😂😂😂😂
    You can't always get what u want ......you can't always get what you want .....but you can vote sometime and you might find.....you get what you neeeeeeed! Hears your sign....🍌

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Год назад

      THE LONGEST MODERN WAR IN THE LARGEST OPIUM PRODUCER IN HISTORY. 30 YEARS AFTER THE SECOND LONGEST WAR NEAR THE SECOND LARGEST OPIUM PRODUCER.

  • @chrismclaughlin-gt7ix
    @chrismclaughlin-gt7ix Год назад

    That Witness P.J. "Pookie " Williams
    There
    Could've Just as Easily
    Been one of The Shot Victims,
    Or
    The Shooter Perps.

  • @MxMe-su1ch
    @MxMe-su1ch Год назад

    We need more housing. Just looking tough here and there with some more KCSO won't solve anything.

    • @chrismclaughlin-gt7ix
      @chrismclaughlin-gt7ix Год назад

      No.
      Housing, or New $240
      Sneaks Won't Change
      Shite with these
      'Mostly Housed' ',Mostly
      Wearing' 240dollar Sneaks
      Super Gremlin ,0 impulse, 0Regard,0Empathy, 0 Abstract/Future Consequence Considering, , 0 Delaying of Gratification/Retribution, 0
      Conflict Resolution
      Phuggies & Gangstas.
      Only Housing They
      Require is
      Pweeee-Zennn.
      LonggggTerm.

    • @vallee7966
      @vallee7966 Год назад +1

      We need prosecutors to DO THE JOB WE PAY THEM TO DO.

  • @Wokefolksuck
    @Wokefolksuck Год назад +17

    Why? The security cant do anything! Unless you prosecute the criminals nothing gets better! YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR!!!