Chris sends us a link to KIRO7 which reports that the police in Seattle’s Department now refer to “suspects” in their reports as “community members” because “labeling someone a suspect can sometimes be misleading if they are not suspected of anything.” In the incident specifically that triggered this report, there’s little doubt that the suspect wasn’t a suspect;<\/p>\n
Sources point to the suspect who shot three officers last month after a downtown Seattle armed robbery. When officers involved in that incident were writing their use of force reports they were required to refer to the shooter, Damarius Butts, as a \u201ccommunity member,\u201d not a suspect, police sources said.<\/p>\n
Police fatally shot Butts after they said he shot the officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, I suspect he’s decomposing as we read these words as a result of him being a suspect, rather than a member of the community. KIRO also reminds us that the Washington State Department of Corrections has ceased referring to their inmates as such;<\/p>\n
Last fall, the Washington Department of Corrections stopped calling inmates \u201coffenders\u201d and instead use the term \u201cstudent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At another KIRO link<\/a>;<\/p>\n
In [Acting DOC Secretary Dick] Morgan\u2019s memo, he wrote that the term offender \u201cis a label that impacts more than the person to whom it is applied. The label has now been so broadly used that it is not uncommon to see it used to describe others such as \u2018offender families\u2019 and \u2018offender employers or services.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can read the .pdf of that memo at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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