Are police guilds inherently different from other unions?
Tonight, the labor council will decide. A citycouncilmember shares her vision of policing, and a journalist tells her own story.
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Nicole Grant, KCLC SPOG vote
When the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild joined the King County Labor Council in 2014, it was with the hope that membership in a union of unions might help with community relations. Times are different now, says executive secretary-treasurer Nicole Grant. She thinks it’s time to vote SPOG out.
City Councilmember Herbold on policing
City councilmembers have a variety of differing visions to reform, defund, and abolish the police. Lisa Herbold of West Seattle would like to reimagine policing; she joined Bill Radke to explain what that would entail.
Erica C. Barnett, Quitter
Many in Seattle know Erica C. Barnett from her news blog, The C is for Crank. But she’s written a memoir that looks at a part of her life that wasn’t public for a long time: her addiction to alcohol. It’s called Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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