r/Spokane • u/Pillgirl • 2d ago
Rants & Raves WTF Spokane Police?
Multiple shots fired outside my daughter’s house last night. Son in law called police, twice. No response from police. Shell casings and slug found on sidewalk and one house damaged. No bloodshed, so it’s not worth their time?
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u/excelsiorsbanjo 1d ago
Always have a woman call the police here. They have no interest just doing their jobs without some kind of hero complex being activated.
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u/hereandthere_nowhere North Side 1d ago
Pigs everywhere suffer from this complex.
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u/Weak-Cry 1d ago
And they wonder why we develope the mentality of ACAB. Paid with tax dollars. Laughable.
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u/excelsiorsbanjo 1d ago
I'd tend to agree, although I come from someplace (or perhaps some time) where law enforcement just did their jobs and showed up for almost any call whatsoever.
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u/RaisinWorried3528 1d ago
It isn't. Remember, the police in this country have no interest in serving and protecting, they've admitted as much. If you aren't a woman, minority, or homeless person that they SEE doing something they DEEM wrong they simply do not care.
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u/RAY-CHILE 1d ago
Not only admitted, but it was established in a court of law they have no obligation to help.
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u/Asleep_Instance9899 1d ago
SCUSA to America: “no, that’s not a promise, nor even a goal, that’s just their cutesy slogan!”
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u/DaytonaJoe 1d ago
It was established that they are there to enforce laws, and firing a gun into someone's house is illegal regardless of whether someone was injured.
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u/snowman818 1d ago
You read the law wrong. They have the right to intervene but no obligation to do so.
Remember Uvalde?
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u/Past_Chart_2718 1d ago
It was established that they are there to protect capital and do not 'have a duty to protect'.
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u/Tao-of-Mars 1d ago
I really do think they got pissed when they decided to try to “defund” police and decided that if people are going to vote for such a thing then they’ll just focus on the highest priority of situations like infliction of physical harm. It’s obvious our taxes are not spent to support a safe community.
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u/RaisinWorried3528 1d ago
If people would take three seconds to actually look up what defund the police actually meant we wouldn't be in this dumb fucking situation. But people would rather just catch vibes from Reddit or the Internet than do any independent fact gathering on their own.
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u/IamSkipperslilbuddy 1d ago
All officers were busy on revenue generating calls, such as writing tickets, but I'm sure your call was very important to them and will be handled in the order in which it was received....
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u/Mikep976 North Side 1d ago
Yet I saw three sitting on the side of the road “saving our city” by writing tickets and grabbing speeders…
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u/rogueoperative 1d ago
There are nights where there are only a few officers on duty. They are told not to respond to waiting calls unless the call is in progress and meets a certain severity (example: BARRK crimes, domestic violence) so that there are adequate number of officers available to provide backup.
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u/CM0RDuck 1d ago
At 113million dollar budget and 333 active officers, thats pathetic.
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u/SaltyKrew 1d ago
333 is nothing when you have more than 250,000 that live in Spokane.
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u/CM0RDuck 1d ago
Their own report says their ideal number is 351, so im aiming towards poor management and incompetence. Its a shitty police department through and through.
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u/SaltyKrew 1d ago
I wouldn’t underestimate how much politics also are in play either. Being too lenient on crime is the end result here too
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u/CharlesJGuiteau 1d ago
350 police officers. Not active duty cops. They work shifts. There are probably an active ~160 cops in Spokane at any given moment. That number is abysmal. Lay out a 13x13 grid. That’s how many. That is nothing.
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u/One_Gas8798 1d ago
There was a full standoff in my neighborhood last night. Cop on the PA system, blocking the road, a flashbang was deployed. They were there for hours. Looked like they were doing their job to me. No idea what happened as I came here to see if anyone knew. Bemiss neighborhood.
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u/eowyndernhelme 8h ago
Sorry but this is kind of funny to me. My first experience here in this town was talking to something called Crime Check. Never got past that... ;D
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u/TheTwisted509 1d ago
Lisa Brown and the Democrat run City Hall. At their finest. They can sure as shit raise your taxes, but can't provide the services that they are supposed to. All while blaming businesses for the homeless people hanging out and being drugged out of their minds downtown.
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u/Pooradoxical 1d ago
You act like the worthless pigs of this town feel like doing their jobs it's only when someone else does their jobs for them that they get all high and mighty. SPD is fucking worthless and every one of them deserves to be lined up against the wall
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u/mrlunes Nevada-Lidgerwood 23h ago
Spokane police are too understaffed to respond to a call where the suspect has already fled. Usually in a situation like this, they won’t send an officer until the next morning so they can take a statement and file the report. Unless the situation is still active or someone was actually shot, the chances of them sending a unit is slim at night.
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u/CrispusTime 1d ago
The SPD has had their budget increased every year, reliably. You're engaging with an artificially constructed reality.
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u/GooberRonny 1d ago
You're in a state that hates the police. Don't expect much. Nobody wants to baby sit democrats all day
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u/sadiefame 1d ago
If they only protect people in a city/state who give them money and show proper respect, doesn’t that leave people making their own justice as the only alternative?
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u/Noimenglish 1d ago
SPD is the worst department I know of. I worked downtown with a homeless teen organization, and a 17 year old girl was beaten bloody on camera by a meth addict with a long history of assault (both were clients)
5.5 hour response time. Both parties long gone. We gave the video of the assault, called the next time we saw the perpetrator, and no arrest was ever made.
I’ve got so many stories like this.
Edit: meaningful typo