In The News
Seattle audit shows alarming increase in gun violence post-pandemic
BY JAMES LYNCH
KIRO Newsradio reporter Mar 27, 2025
“The audit found that between 2013 and 2024, reports of shots fired increased by 194%. Non-fatal injuries were up 150%, and fatal shooting up 220%.”
Seattle Gun Violence Progress Report
In the news:
New Seattle ordinance mandates security measures for after-hours lounges to curb violence
KOMO News Mar 25, 2025
KOMO allows comments. Several have been posted with the story above.
Our take-
Would any newsperson ever ask:
Has any WA gun control measure or public policy effort of the past 20 years slowed down the gunfire between say, Everett and Tacoma?
What works? What fails?
Newspeople remain silent.
Everett updates here.
Seattle updates here.
Tacoma updates here.
Voting is highly emphasized in American culture. Newspeople asking questions related to public policy takes a lower priority.
Welcome Home Troops – Armed Forces Recruiting Crisis
In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.
Standards have deteriorated. Today, the troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.
Read Seattle area news from any source to see where things are now.
Read about traffic fatalities, shootings, drugs not kept out by a giant US Dept. of Homeland Security, homeless encampments, arson, shoplifting, ferries that don’t run and failed county jail security screening protocols.
Weak Security Screening – Welcome Home Troops
Zero questions from newspeople:
Fentanyl found in Snohomish County Jail during K9 search
KOMO News Feb 22, 2025
“A routine search by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office at the county jail led to the discovery of fentanyl in the medical housing unit on Tuesday, the agency said.”
Routine search discovers fentanyl that maybe should have been kept out of the US by a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security.
Routine search discovers fentanyl that was able to move past jail security screening protocols and procedures prior to becoming the subject of a Sheriff’s Office commendation of the efforts of the corrections staff at the facility.
Well Done
Real newspeople may ask why K9 Harley and others with similar training didn’t prevent fentanyl from entering the facility in the first place. How often do jail security screening protocols fail to keep fentanyl from entering the facility?
Press Release Style of News Reporting
For the story above, KOMO goes with the press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.
Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.
Related:
New Drug War – Instant Success?
Possibly of interest:
Sound Publishing And Black Press Media
Old Man Blog category:
Thoughts on changes in American culture relating to those born roughly in the late 50s & early 60s.
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