Speaker 1: It's it could happen here, the podcast that occasionally has
Speaker 1: ads from Washington State Highway Patrol. On a completely unrelated note, Garrison,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about the Washington State Highway Patrol today?
Speaker 1: I sure would love to talk about our our good
Speaker 1: friends at the Washington State Patrol Um. Because yeah, they
Speaker 1: just they've've they've come up on my radar and in
Speaker 1: an unrelated matter, and now we're gonna talking about So
Speaker 1: now we're talking about them. Yeah. So this is the
Speaker 1: show about things falling apart and kind of part of
Speaker 1: societal and political stuff kind of crumbling. Usually that gets
Speaker 1: related to some type of law enforcement agency more often
Speaker 1: than not. And uh, in terms of like tensions rising
Speaker 1: in stuff, there's a lot of you know, force gets
Speaker 1: force gets exerted via law enforcement, and uh one such
Speaker 1: law enforcement Yeah, well, and one such agency that does
Speaker 1: this is called the Washington State Patrol UM. So they
Speaker 1: were I I don't know, I I just discovered them recently.
Speaker 1: Uh So they were founded exactly one hundred years ago, um,
Speaker 1: and they were originally called the Washington State Highway Patrol Um.
Speaker 1: Now they're just the Washington State Patrol. They were moved
Speaker 1: highway but they still do the same thing. They're basically
Speaker 1: glorified traffic cops, um, who operate all around all around
Speaker 1: Washington State. UM. And we're gonna talk about some of
Speaker 1: the ways that they've been making things worse within the
Speaker 1: past decade. UM. I'm since they have a one hundred
Speaker 1: year history, I'm sure we can find lots of historical examples. UM.
Speaker 1: But we're we're gonna we're gonna do stuff that's more
Speaker 1: that is more recent, because this is, you know, generally
Speaker 1: trying to keep things around the current, the current crumbling. Um.
Speaker 1: And because we're gonna talk about police, the first the
Speaker 1: first thing we're gonna be discussing, oddly enough, is a
Speaker 1: racism because I know, um, when you think of Washington
Speaker 1: State Patrol, that's you know, it's it's kind of shocking
Speaker 1: that they might have a race issue. UM. So anyway,
Speaker 1: twelve years ago, researchers working with working with Washington State
Speaker 1: Patrol found that troopers were searching drivers from minority communities,
Speaker 1: particularly um local Native American tribes, at a much higher
Speaker 1: rate than than white people. And they recommend an additional study,
Speaker 1: which the Washington State Patrol declined to uh to investigate further,
Speaker 1: they they're like no, um, no, no more studies. So meanwhile,
Speaker 1: since then, the troopers have continued to continue to search
Speaker 1: Native Americans at a at a rate much higher more
Speaker 1: than five times than that of of of white people
Speaker 1: in the area. Yeah. So but there are five times
Speaker 1: as the popular there. There's five times as many Indigenous
Speaker 1: people in Washington as white people right there, there's noth Yeah.
Speaker 1: So an analysis by Investigate West showed that the Patrol
Speaker 1: continued to do searches at a much elevated rates for
Speaker 1: for black people, Latino Pacific Islanders, and Natives within Washington State. Um.
Speaker 1: And yet when when troopers did decide to search white motorists,
Speaker 1: they were more likely to find drugs in contraband. UM.
Speaker 1: Which is something to Washington State Patrol actually acknowledges is
Speaker 1: that when they search people of minority communities, they are
Speaker 1: less likely to find to find illegal things. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean that's yeah nationwide and very very robust data. So UM,
Speaker 1: government records obtained via like information requests and various other
Speaker 1: you know of public records searches UM also show that
Speaker 1: there there there is a state law that Washington State
Speaker 1: Patrol is supposed to collect and report semiannually to the
Speaker 1: Criminal Justice Training Commission in Washington. UM about you know,
Speaker 1: race and ethnicity data of motorists is stopped by troopers.
Speaker 1: But uh so this is supposed is supposed to happen
Speaker 1: semi annually. But the agency report of those findings only
Speaker 1: three times in the past fifteen years, which isn't sounds
Speaker 1: kind of like the Portland police were not doing the
Speaker 1: things that federally they're supposed to do because they're so violent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so being out of compliance with a bunch of federal
Speaker 1: rags three three times, three times in fifteen years is
Speaker 1: not semi annually. Based on what I know, the term
Speaker 1: semi annually to semi decade. So yeah. Um, based on
Speaker 1: responses for over thirty public records requests UM from from
Speaker 1: three different agencies looking looking at Washington State Patrol and
Speaker 1: more than like fifty interviews with current and formal law
Speaker 1: enforcement officials and people with experience interacting with Washington State
Speaker 1: Patrol UM and also data from millions of traffic stops.
Speaker 1: All this was looked at in total, examined about eight
Speaker 1: million traffic stops from two US and nine tow US
Speaker 1: in fifteen. This is what investigate West was doing. UM,
Speaker 1: which was which was the most recent data available, and
Speaker 1: the analysis found that, uh, it focused on incidents of
Speaker 1: what researchers called like high discretion searches. That's when troopers
Speaker 1: had the most like personal leeway to decide whether or
Speaker 1: not to pull over and search a vehicle. UM. Black
Speaker 1: drivers were twice as likely to be searched as white drivers,
Speaker 1: and Latino specific calendars were eight percent more likely to
Speaker 1: be searched. Of of these incidents where officers had discretion
Speaker 1: and like they could choose whether or not to pull
Speaker 1: someone over. UM, So it wasn't like it wasn't like
Speaker 1: they were like obviously speeding or doing you know, like
Speaker 1: like you know like like regular like actually observable traffic violations.
Speaker 1: This is when like people could choose when they investigate West.
Speaker 1: Thing got published, they contact Washingt State Patrol and the
Speaker 1: spokesperson said that, uh, here's here's here's the quote that
Speaker 1: the race race was not the only factor when troopers
Speaker 1: decide whom to search, and that's partially because blacks, Native
Speaker 1: Americans and Latinos are more like more more likely to
Speaker 1: be regardless of how much discretion troopers have, which that
Speaker 1: doesn't really make very much sense. Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the person, I don't know what they mean is
Speaker 1: they're more likely to regardless what, who is that bad
Speaker 1: checking the copy? Which is weird because later on the
Speaker 1: spokesperson said that, Um, same guy, we're in the basically
Speaker 1: we're agrees that we're in a basic agreement that minorities
Speaker 1: are searched at higher rates, but we find less contraband
Speaker 1: so um. And he also he also noted that complaints
Speaker 1: about like a racial bias encounted for little more than
Speaker 1: ten percent of all complaints of the state patrol filed
Speaker 1: last year. So I guess he thinks that's a good
Speaker 1: He thinks that's a good stat Yeah, he's proud of that. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: And another kind of uh, not great thing is that uh.
Speaker 1: The analysis found that not only are Native Americans more
Speaker 1: likely to be searched, but all of the most of
Speaker 1: those searches happen always that like the edges of reservations UM.
Speaker 1: The analysis found that the two highest concentration of searches
Speaker 1: of Native Americans by state troopers are on the US
Speaker 1: nineties seven, where it encounters um A reservation at ol
Speaker 1: Mac about about a mile from its intersection at a
Speaker 1: state wrote one fifty five, which is and more than
Speaker 1: one thirty miles south of of the same when the
Speaker 1: same highway enters another reservation. So nearly one third of
Speaker 1: high discretions of high discretion searches, so when troopers can
Speaker 1: decide whether or not to pull someone over like like
Speaker 1: they they they have more discretion whether they can. So
Speaker 1: one third of those happened on these two stretches of
Speaker 1: highway right on the edges of these reservations, like they're
Speaker 1: patrolling outside these reservations to specifically do this. Um there
Speaker 1: was I I saw an interview on this topic that
Speaker 1: we've talked that talked to to Native Americans in this
Speaker 1: area and they're like, yeah, every time we leave the reservation,
Speaker 1: we get pulled over. But then we watched tons of
Speaker 1: white motorists go by and no one cares, like and
Speaker 1: like and they're like you're doing like they're just speeding by,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Um. So yeah, that is that is
Speaker 1: the first first you know, unsurprising tidbit about uh. Some
Speaker 1: an organization who started as a highway patrol is, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna pull people over who are not white more
Speaker 1: often that is that's pretty not not super shocky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then makes a public statement like l o O
Speaker 1: yeah yeah that that does. That does sound a lot
Speaker 1: like with the Washington State Patrol. Uh sounds like, um,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna so that that was That was the
Speaker 1: first obvious thing. Uh. This next part is a little
Speaker 1: bit more fun. Um. So in in in two thousand nine,
Speaker 1: the Washington State Patrol made made the decision to fire
Speaker 1: eight troopers, which is you know, pretty pretty rare um
Speaker 1: And the reason why they got fired is because they
Speaker 1: used fake diplomas to claim pay raises. Yeah, so there
Speaker 1: was there was this whole scheme about getting fake diplomas
Speaker 1: to get the troopers more money, like like like individual
Speaker 1: people that there's this whole, this whole operation going on.
Speaker 1: It resulted in the in in a in a people
Speaker 1: getting fired. So troopers can can boost their pay about
Speaker 1: two percent by earning a two a two year degree
Speaker 1: or four percent with a four year degree. And there
Speaker 1: was this group of of a troopers who just uh
Speaker 1: started just forging diplomas see Garrison. This is a separate conversation.
Speaker 1: But they didn't need to forge diplomas. They could have
Speaker 1: just become doctors of of of of magic, like that
Speaker 1: is what I've tried to do religious PhD. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of fake diploma mills. Come on, washing
Speaker 1: didn't State Highway Patrol. This is pretty funny. So so
Speaker 1: the investigation began after federal agents shut down a diploma
Speaker 1: mill in the Spokane. Criminal charges were not filed, but
Speaker 1: the patrol to decide to fire these eight troopers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that is one of the more funny things we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about today. And I think it's time for
Speaker 1: an ad break um. Yeah, speaking of funny, here's these
Speaker 1: ads that may or may not be the people we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Rob No unrelated, unrelated. Uh we're back, which
Speaker 1: is also unrelated. Yeah. Another thing that's putten pretty common
Speaker 1: around police is that the past few years they generally
Speaker 1: don't think COVID is really real, or that it is
Speaker 1: the past few years. Now that Robert, we're less than
Speaker 1: a month away from two. Yeah, I hate that. It's
Speaker 1: like it's it's like it's almost two. Almost ten percent
Speaker 1: of your entire life has been COVID. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to think about math um. So generally they don't think
Speaker 1: COVID is real, and also they think vaccines are the
Speaker 1: mark of Satan or something. Well obviously they are. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so in in in mid October this this past October,
Speaker 1: Washingtons Tate Patrol announced that one hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: of its employees lost their job after the state's COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen vaccine mandate deadline of October eighteen. So, unlike the
Speaker 1: Portland Police Bureau who who, the port who Port and
Speaker 1: many other cities where city officials caved to the demands
Speaker 1: of the police that vaccine mandates not be not be
Speaker 1: extended towards police, uh, this did not happen in Washington
Speaker 1: and they actually got it enforced. So over a hundred
Speaker 1: uh Patrol employees quit quit their job, including a sixty
Speaker 1: four commissioned officers. It was like six sixty seven troopers,
Speaker 1: six sergeants, and one captain. Um. Yeah, so, you know,
Speaker 1: Washington State Patrol has about two thousand personnel within like
Speaker 1: between like eight districts um, So losing like a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty seven of them is not a it's not
Speaker 1: an insignificant loss. Um And it's it's been a it's
Speaker 1: it has been been trying to hire a lot more
Speaker 1: people in the in the past in the past like
Speaker 1: a few months. Because of this, they've been they've been
Speaker 1: trying to do a lot more recruitment, which is why
Speaker 1: they're Um, I've heard from other people that they are
Speaker 1: putting uh advertisements out on the internet to become a
Speaker 1: Washington State trooper. This is something I've I've heard from
Speaker 1: from people online when I've been doing all of this
Speaker 1: uh deep deep, extensive research. So yeah, they are, they are,
Speaker 1: they are recruiting. Uh So, if you want to be
Speaker 1: a Washington Patrol officer, don't don't. Actually that's a bad idea. Um,
Speaker 1: don't do that. Yeah, I mean us act you want
Speaker 1: to like really funk with people who live on a reservation.
Speaker 1: If that's if that's your goal, it's Washington State Highway
Speaker 1: Patrol is your your dream career? Or have another option
Speaker 1: for you. You could also just get COVID and die. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is an option. That's an option to thing I
Speaker 1: think might be freedom is what makes this nation great.
Speaker 1: Uh So I think you know of the choice. Anyway,
Speaker 1: continue Harrison. I'm gonna send a picture inside our group
Speaker 1: chat first because we're gonna were gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: one one specific evil dude. Next, I'm setting a picture
Speaker 1: in the group chat that I want you to look
Speaker 1: at first, just so you get a sense of who
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Oh, based, okay, I'm I'm excited. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Hit Oh no, oh no, the boat I
Speaker 1: really brings it all together. Oh no, you said bow tie,
Speaker 1: which does not make me optimistic. And Robert, oh no,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with it? Who? Yeah? Who puts a
Speaker 1: bow tie on a uniform? Like guys, I found a
Speaker 1: better quality image. Um, good god, here we go, the
Speaker 1: same image better He looks like Tucker Carlson and the
Speaker 1: Starship Troopers universe when he gets drafted. So this is
Speaker 1: the next guy we're talking about. Um, somehow feels like
Speaker 1: I hate crime towards the Weasley family. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels like a hate crime towards the guy based off
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson in Starship Troopers. So this would be a
Speaker 1: big fan of ron Ron Weasley's family. This this is
Speaker 1: this is Sean Carrum, a former Washington State Patrol a
Speaker 1: sergeant um who resigned for reasons. We will discuss fun.
Speaker 1: That's exciting. Yeah yeah anyway. Um. So in two US
Speaker 1: and fifteen and Associated Press investigation uncovered about a thousand
Speaker 1: officers in the United States who lost their badges over
Speaker 1: a six year period for sex crimes or misconduct such
Speaker 1: as like, uh, this is this is a quote here,
Speaker 1: which I disagree with framing here, but this is this
Speaker 1: is a quote propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited
Speaker 1: on duty intercourse, which is uh, pretty bullshit way to
Speaker 1: frame that because basically you're it's it's police raping people. Um,
Speaker 1: and police officers being accused of like using their power
Speaker 1: over people to rape them is extremely common. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's often just like, yeah, well the person said okay,
Speaker 1: And it's like, well they said okay to a person
Speaker 1: with a gun and the legal power to murder anyone
Speaker 1: they want or put them into jail. Like like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuf. Yeah, you know, I would argue
Speaker 1: you can't consent uh to sex with a police officer
Speaker 1: who's on duty and in uniform because it's they have
Speaker 1: the power to murder or anybody want or who just
Speaker 1: arrest you. Like, like it's a lot of stuff. So,
Speaker 1: like there was a studied at least a few years
Speaker 1: ago that an analyzed data of like a five hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty arrest cases from the years of two US
Speaker 1: and five two US and seven. This is just two
Speaker 1: years and UH and a four hundred officers employed by
Speaker 1: like three D and twenty non non federal law enforcement
Speaker 1: agencies located throughout a forty three states. Um AND findings
Speaker 1: indicated that a police sexual misconduct includes a serious forms
Speaker 1: of sex with related crimes, and the victims of sex
Speaker 1: related crimes by police are typically younger than eighteen years old. UM.
Speaker 1: So it's it happens a lot with miners. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot like like more like a ridiculously common like
Speaker 1: if you if you google is which I honestly don't recommend,
Speaker 1: but you can find like dozens of stories coming out
Speaker 1: like basically every like not you'll find at least one
Speaker 1: new story every month of a kid getting raped by police.
Speaker 1: It happens pretty commonly. So over the past ten years,
Speaker 1: in the Washington State Patrol, they've investigated and confirmed four
Speaker 1: cases of what they call sex on duty UM according
Speaker 1: to the agency, and this is including including Shan Carr. Now,
Speaker 1: Sean Car's cases particularly sensitive for the agency because he
Speaker 1: was married to the UH the daughter of the Washington
Speaker 1: State Patrol Chief um and, and Shaun Carr was also
Speaker 1: himself a sergeant, so he was connected to like the
Speaker 1: big leagues at the Washington State Patrol. So Car met
Speaker 1: a civilian woman who also works at Washington State Patrol
Speaker 1: but as like you know, like has like an office job,
Speaker 1: so they isn't isn't a trooper. Um. They met in
Speaker 1: twelve and struck up an online friendship, and a few
Speaker 1: months later they both of them told investigators that the
Speaker 1: relationship did turn sexual. UM. Car admitted to six sexual
Speaker 1: encounters for the next like five years with the woman,
Speaker 1: of five of which happened when he was on duty
Speaker 1: and like on state property or driving a vehicle or
Speaker 1: while in uniform. UM. But the woman recalled as many
Speaker 1: as as twenty and all but one of them were
Speaker 1: when he was on duty and well. And so the
Speaker 1: woman said that most of their encounters were were what
Speaker 1: she would describe as consensual, but she described three incidents
Speaker 1: where Car did pushed the boundary and she she she
Speaker 1: has described being raped by him multiple times. UM, so
Speaker 1: there was there was an incident. I think the first
Speaker 1: one happened in the beginning of UH with inside his
Speaker 1: patrol car in a church parking lot. UH. The woman
Speaker 1: had recently started dating another man, and Carr wanted to
Speaker 1: know who it was. When she wouldn't say so, he uh,
Speaker 1: he grabbed her arm hard enough to leave bruises, and
Speaker 1: the woman said that Car made her pick from two options,
Speaker 1: give up the name of the man or give car
Speaker 1: oral sex. Um. Car later told investigators that he said
Speaker 1: us in a quote joking context, Oh that's you know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, because that's almost exactly my my tight
Speaker 1: five for my stand up set. I mean some some
Speaker 1: comedians for some reason do like making jokes like that
Speaker 1: and not not not great usually not great to normalize
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So um. The woman said that
Speaker 1: she did like like s his his like commands and
Speaker 1: she's which she said, we're like very much not done consent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she said it's very much not consensual. Um. She
Speaker 1: She told investigators that he raped me on the side
Speaker 1: of the road. Um. And if and if it was
Speaker 1: anyone else besides Car, she she she she said she
Speaker 1: would have called nine one one. Um. So the second
Speaker 1: time happened when a car backed her into a corner
Speaker 1: of a highway away station and forced her to have
Speaker 1: sex with him. Um. She called it a coerced Car
Speaker 1: said that consent was mutual. So despite the sexual assaults,
Speaker 1: uh and and and like and you know and and
Speaker 1: like assaults you know, like you know, grapping someone's army.
Speaker 1: Hard to believe a bruise, she said. The woman said
Speaker 1: she kept in touch with Car because she was going
Speaker 1: through a difficult time in her life and she needed
Speaker 1: somebody to talk to. Complicated. That's yeah, that this is
Speaker 1: even like people who are abusive can also be emotionally
Speaker 1: supportive sometimes, Like that's one of the things about abuse
Speaker 1: that says a real, real motherfucker. It's not simple. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Car Car may not have gotten in trouble had the
Speaker 1: woman not confided in another patrol employee after she left
Speaker 1: her job. UM. Then the other other patrol employee mentioned
Speaker 1: the situation to someone higher up, triggering an investigation. UM.
Speaker 1: And then in twenty nineteen, the woman formally reported Car
Speaker 1: to uh TO to like the Patrol Office of Professional Standards.
Speaker 1: So records started that the patrol of pretty quickly confiscated cars, badge,
Speaker 1: and gun and placed him on home assignment, where he
Speaker 1: remained until he and he resigned voluntarily. UM. The patrol
Speaker 1: gave gave the case to the Sheriff's office to investigate
Speaker 1: because of the criminally chur of the allegations. So Car's
Speaker 1: personal file includes other on job violations, including using a
Speaker 1: taser on a drunk driving suspect. He was handcuffed, and
Speaker 1: records show that in February, Car was accused of frequenting
Speaker 1: a coffee stand and making unwanted advances on an employee
Speaker 1: by waiting near her car until her shift ended, and
Speaker 1: making derogatory comments about her boyfriend. Um, so she was
Speaker 1: also stalking this barista. Is what it sounds like? Um? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that is what that sounds like. Terrifying. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so Car after the woman told investigators that she was
Speaker 1: raped after um, the the county sheriffs recommended hard to
Speaker 1: be filed. But she wasn't willing to. Um, she wasn't
Speaker 1: willing to testify. She did not want to. She did
Speaker 1: not want to do that. Um. But but she she
Speaker 1: didn't tell prosecutors that she did have one wish that
Speaker 1: that Car again, the son in law of the state
Speaker 1: patrol chief be be not not allowed to police again.
Speaker 1: UM yeah, that's a pretty reasonable request. Car of obviously
Speaker 1: denied all the accusations of non consensual sex and assault,
Speaker 1: but you know, it did admit to a to a
Speaker 1: consensual sexual relationship on duty UM, as well as other
Speaker 1: you know, like patrol regulation violations. UM. He he resigned
Speaker 1: in July before the patrol could decide whether or not
Speaker 1: to fire him UM and then the state went about
Speaker 1: trying to strip him of his law enforcement certificasion requirement
Speaker 1: to carry a gun and badge and be hired as
Speaker 1: law enforcement in Washington. Getting de certified forms conduct by
Speaker 1: the Criminal Justice Training Center in Washington is very hard.
Speaker 1: Very few people have actually been decertified. Yeah, And to
Speaker 1: to be certified, the panel must be a panel must
Speaker 1: be convinced on duty behavior rose to the level of
Speaker 1: official misconduct and constituted a crime committed under the color
Speaker 1: of authority as a peace officer. That's the that's the
Speaker 1: color of authorities an interesting way to phrase that. Cars
Speaker 1: attorneys argued that the state failed to make to meet
Speaker 1: this high bar and there was quote no legal basis
Speaker 1: to decertified car. Meanwhile, the c j a t S
Speaker 1: the Criminal Justice Training Center alleged his behavior did constitute
Speaker 1: official misconduct and failure of duty, but without actually they
Speaker 1: didn't actually include the sexual assault allegations. Instead, it contended
Speaker 1: that he used state resources for his own benefit or
Speaker 1: neglected to do his duties when he was engaged in
Speaker 1: sexual activity on duty. So they didn't actually include sexual
Speaker 1: assault or anything in this. They just said you were
Speaker 1: basically like you were because you were doing because you
Speaker 1: were having like sexual activity on duty, you weren't doing
Speaker 1: your job and that's the reason that we want to
Speaker 1: decertify you. Um. So, the date of Washington has about
Speaker 1: eleven thousand certified officers at any given time UM and
Speaker 1: since to us in three they've decertified like two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty and at least four of them for on
Speaker 1: duty sex and one of those cases was overturned on
Speaker 1: appeal um. But in one around mid May, the c
Speaker 1: j TC in its final order said that Cars constituted
Speaker 1: uh crimes of of failure of duty and official misconduct by,
Speaker 1: among other things, quote, intentionally choosing to pursue his own
Speaker 1: sexual gratification rather than using his on duty time to
Speaker 1: perform his lawful responsibilities as a peace officer. So he
Speaker 1: he did get decertified, but again not actually discussing the
Speaker 1: actual like assaults and rapes. Um. Yeah, So the the
Speaker 1: the sheriff County prosecutor's office designed declined to pursue charges
Speaker 1: on the case last year when the woman was unwilling
Speaker 1: to testify, but the deputy prosecuting attorney UM did say
Speaker 1: that she she believed they just happened, like like she
Speaker 1: she believes this that the stuff happened. But because of
Speaker 1: the lack of evidence due to time passing and the
Speaker 1: woman not wanting to testify, there it's hard to prove
Speaker 1: guilt in court, so they're not going to pursue these
Speaker 1: charges at the moment. Yeah, So that that is uh,
Speaker 1: that is Shawn Carr. So that yeah, he is not
Speaker 1: not not allowed to police as of one. That is
Speaker 1: a cursory glance at stuff that you Washington State Patrol. Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess one of the one other thing I found
Speaker 1: out today is that so Washington State Patrol has a
Speaker 1: has a psychologist for UM recruitings basically for if you
Speaker 1: want to join the patrol, you have to go like
Speaker 1: through like a psychological screening. Sure, that makes sense. And
Speaker 1: he just just resigned because he was he was he
Speaker 1: was probably going to get fired. UM. This was after
Speaker 1: Seattle Times and Public Radio Northwest News Network UH published
Speaker 1: a peace show showing that since uh, the psychological screenings
Speaker 1: rejected where is it? Uh rejected of white candidates over
Speaker 1: the past four years. Um, but the psychologists that they hired,
Speaker 1: uh rejected of black candidates, of Hispanic candidates, and forty
Speaker 1: one percent of Asian candidates. So again, I'm not pro
Speaker 1: people being police in general, but there is a clear
Speaker 1: disparity on who they are wanting to become police, like
Speaker 1: who like who are they? They're letting in a lot
Speaker 1: more white candidates than they are letting in candidates of color. Um.
Speaker 1: So this this uh, this psychologist screener is is no
Speaker 1: longer on the job as of like a few days ago. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so just another another level of stuff because yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: there's they want there to be more white officers than
Speaker 1: anything else. Um. So yeah, that is that is the
Speaker 1: Washington State Patrol. I guess the one other thing I
Speaker 1: want to do is I'm gonna again send in the
Speaker 1: group chat. Their their current logo, their current logo current
Speaker 1: you're smirking. I hate it when you do this. I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Sophie. Maybe it'll be fine. It's actually
Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind of fun. That's their logo. That
Speaker 1: is their current logo. They design it in like paint, Yes,
Speaker 1: they probably they probably did design it in MS paint.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, that that looks like it belongs in
Speaker 1: an angel Fire website. Gar So do you know what
Speaker 1: angel Fire was? I do not. Oh my god, you
Speaker 1: fucking teenageers. Um. Yeah, that looks like it belongs in
Speaker 1: an angel I will. I will let all of the
Speaker 1: other people who feel very old right now know that
Speaker 1: it looks like something you'd see in an angel Fire website,
Speaker 1: like shittlely animated blinking across the screen. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks like something from a ninety nineties website. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: now I'm both angry about the police and I feel
Speaker 1: a thousand years old. So this is good? What a good?
Speaker 1: What a good? What a good feeling? Well that that
Speaker 1: wraps that. That wraps it up for today. Um and
Speaker 1: hey again, I have heard that they are recruiting and
Speaker 1: they should have a new psychological screener soon. So great,
Speaker 1: there we go. I'm imagining the primary psychological screening is
Speaker 1: you're white, right, that's that's that is what it used
Speaker 1: to be. I mean, I'm imagining that's what it's going
Speaker 1: to be still probably maybe not all right. Well, this
Speaker 1: has been a great time. I'm sure everybody's feeling good.
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