A Letter to the Criminal Justice System (Originally published in the King County Bar Association Bar Bulletin, September 2020 issue. If you are a member of the KCBA, you can view the original article here.) A Letter To The Criminal Justice System: You are failing at your job. You were supposed to deter harm in our communities. You were
Know Your Rights When Stopped By Police Part II: Car Stops Ready for Part II? The same rules we laid out in Part I apply here: familiarize yourself with that first as your foundation for any interaction with a police officer. And then read on: here is what to do (and NOT do) when you get pulled over in your
Know Your Rights When Stopped by Police Part I: The Top 5 Most Important Things to Know Black Lives Matter. Let’ s just start with that. Right now, we are doing all we can to listen, to read, and to be educated by Black voices. We wholeheartedly stand with the demands of the Black community to defund and demilitarize the