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Sign in. Log into your account. Privacy and Cookies Policy. Sign up. Yes, we need adequate citizen oversight of police, deeper anti-bias training, more integrated community policing and a focus on restorative justice and alternatives to incarceration.
While I support community oversight and the expanded role of the [Community Police Commission] in holding the police department accountable, the ultimate authority, responsibility, and accountability for the hiring and firing of a police chief — as with any department head in the city - should rest with the Mayor. The mayor must be accountable and responsible for the management of our police force and as mayor I will assertively and transparently represent the interests of the public in contract negotiations without undermining the rights of public sector union members to collectively bargain.
We must continue examining whether the deployment of body-worn cameras strikes the balance between police accountability and law enforcement aims with a critical need to protect victims, minors, vulnerable communities, informants, and others with reasonable expectations of privacy.
The State Public Disclosure Act prevents the city from fully protecting the identities of victims or innocent bystanders. Recognizing the need to constantly examine whether the implementation is working adequately to address privacy concerns, we need to continue to fully deploy this critical tool for accountability. I disagree with my opponent who has said she supports an ordinance guaranteeing a right to shelter — while I believe housing is a human right, an ordinance would divert millions of dollars in scarce resources to warehousing people experiencing homelessness in sometimes degrading shelters rather than providing people the housing they need to permanently exit homelessness.
As I said weeks ago, we should consider housing as a fundamental human right, like access to food and water, and our city should be doing everything possible to shelter homeless folks. With living conditions often unhealthy and unsafe, unsanctioned encampments are not a humane solution for people experiencing homelessness, which is why the City needs to connect people who are currently living in encampments with services, and provide them with long-term solutions whether that is mental health treatment, treatment for substance abuse or chemical dependency, or access to low-barrier shelters as they transition into long-term stable housing; and before moving anyone, we need to do significant outreach to connect people with services, offer people an alternative place for shelter, and ensure that they are able to maintain their possessions.
Unlike my opponent, I oppose the sweeps of homeless encampments and I would stop the sweeps immediately if I were elected mayor while expanding low-barrier shelters and tiny house villages to give homeless folks a way to come inside. I believe altering our zoning code to legalize duplexes, backyard cottages, rowhouses, and congregate housing in single family residential neighborhoods is an important part of building enough housing for all the folks moving here while working with the community to decide where and how.
As mayor I would work with our delegation in Olympia to lift the ban on rent stabilization and adapt best practices from other cities, as this could be an effective method to keep rents affordable.
Let me take a moment to be clear: I do not want to restart the HALA process -- I think HALA was a good first step, and I support the upzones and MHA requirements, but there is more that we can do to improve housing affordability in Seattle, and must work carefully with neighborhoods trying to survive displacement and gentrification.
We have an affordable housing crisis in our city and we should be looking at all the tools and options available to us to fund the construction of more affordable housing as quickly as possible.
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