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In response to
"years ago when I lived in Seattle, the Times did an expose piece on how many folks had outstanding warrants and weren't being pursued -- nm"
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crash davis
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to elaborate, the warrants squad had like 13,000 outstanding warrants and were overwhelmed - between traffic offenses were some bad people
Posted by
crash davis (aka trisha)
Mar 23 '16, 13:34
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and a ton of warrants that really should have been dismissed but stayed there due to paperwork inertia
a lot of what the squad did was man an information desk and people would actually drop in to see if they had any warrants on themselves out
They'd either say "nope, you're good" or arrest them on the spot
the whole thing was so gobsmacking it has stuck with me
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