is going to get up there and talk about a brand new era of transparency and guess what they shot a guy seven times with a rifle just a month ago and no one knows where it happen because they won't say i believe him he doesn't know but they don't have to ask him about six times also fair in asking the times why they haven't given us that morsel of information  and i think that with the support i see here today with the support for community members and the support for people internally in the organization i think we're on the right track we can't forget the past we have the knowledge mistakes of the past but  america going forward but i also do i think it's important for a cheap to have the option to bring here and trusted allies from from outside as well so i think i hope to strike a balance but i'll say this continuing professional  great transparency was not among the four points that you address in your simple four point description you also made a quip there about the witness protection program of the fact that even slinking around in town for the last several days which is a ritual that is mysterious to me i recall it happening with chiefs of police here before but it's a little bit bizarre because you're stepping into a city where perhaps the lack of transparency secrecy in the police department is the number one problem no one can understand what's going on inside this police department that we're spending two hundred million dollars a year on without more transparency as an example i just spoke to steve from the seattle times fifteen minutes ago i said do you know where cody spafford died on april fourth he was shot seven times by detective jim rogers where did he die didn't die one seventy one lake washington boulevard one twenty lake washington boulevard one hundred it has not been released i've made numerous correct proper requests for that information from the public records here and no response they won't tell us where the police gone to this person dam and this is one example of m they can keep you waiting for decades behind me in decades i've been after some documents from this police department and i can assure you ms o'toole that the number one problem which you did not address in your four points is transparency what is your i believe in a civilized society we just released documents like that so that there's not this veil of secrecy around all police functions really think that it's now time for those crime scene photos to be released i think it's really conversation that we had previously i'm having a conversation with  two term county executive this was soon said an environmental conference at seattle center may thirteenth two thousand and four but the relevant thing about him being there in the ninety's is he's the guy who took over from gary locke the first guy who blew it mr sims how are you today fine how are you today so you're running for governor now i am and congratulations on that since thank you very much and sir i want to direct your attention to this document here it's addressed to you it's from march eleventh just a couple of months ago and it's titled the need for a federal corruption investigation and a public inquest into into the this is all based on evidence by cobain's weiss who published this in a twelve hundred word narrative that was published and ellipses from my transcript for today and it's all i mention the number of and i say that all of these two months have passed and i've heard nothing about it and i'll let me ask you about section eight ninety five of the king county charter as you can see section eight ninety five provides that quote an inquest shall be held to investigate the causes and circumstances of any death involving a member of the law enforcement agency of the county in the performance  and so if this death occurred whether it was an identified man steps between us excuse me just a second we're going to get started he says to me sims begins to move away from leave without a word sir i don't appreciate i don't know who you are but i really don't appreciate your interrupting this important conversation why are you blocking why are you assaulting an identified man because he needs so if he in any way in our conversation today tried to convey a sense that he carefully pondered all of the details and made a wise decision and informed me in writing as to issue back then like he did today and obviously he's quite correct in saying that he's not an elected official now but he's appointing and helping to appoint an elected official is still quite in the game a six years is a million and a half years two million and that's just that's just the higher in salary that's not the generous pension the hugely generous pension i mean when one stamp or retired i remember they ran it down and that was in the dark ages of compensation back in one nine hundred ninety nine when he was only making i think around two hundred five thousand a year more than double that but of course it was my voice asking about transparency and i probably will get zero exposure in the news who wants to hear a question about transparency the problem transparency is that the media is complicit   diminished capacity kind of defense bank robberies in this town in the state they can get state's time to get federal time hack who knows maybe i've never heard of a case  going this way but maybe they can get a mental institution institutionalization as well i'm again i'm not familiar the case but a case if you're going to rob a bank i mean there's a guy just above average for a con and what this con did was he robbed a bunch of banks when he was a teenager in the region i mean trying to become the new drugstore cowboy or whatever i don't know what his deal was but not only did he get out in not too many years on some sort of youthful indiscretion type deal i think he served federal time which is easier than being locked up with all the you know murderers and rapists in madison park area he was not living in presumably because he worked over in ballard which is a half hour drive even without traffic presumably his defense was he was going to try to escape and he was dressed as a and the one twenty address which we refer to as our child's residence i don't know that he still lives there but he did it for a long time suspect spafford ran through a yard and there's no camera guy that there was a gurney coming down that old fair lane and anyway they've got video you know that's obviously one of the main reasons for needing more transparency you know the media in this town are such losers which is why i'll probably get no recognition for asking the best question of the day which is what about the transparency issue really i mean honestly i hate to beat a person up in her first you know ten minutes on the job but how would they say it in boston you know holy creep she comes into a police department where the biggest problem of all is the tradition of secrecy which doesn't go all the media of course has often said since addition won the bucket of blood reference  media has to sell it the police have to provide a bucket of  she slinking around like she was she didn't say slinking but she's going around like she's in witness protection they did this a stamp or two but actually he added i believe i remembered that he got caught and photographed and so the ritual was blown and ker and he always had that powder on his face like he was ready to break into tears if anyone was going to ask him a hard question you know that's the guy signature move pouting all the time like he's ready to break into tears that producer from the wire going on endlessly about what he thinks ought to be done about drugs in america but this city has given up on policing pot forever or a rather completely almost completely pot is legal as the day i and three approved retailers and non approved deliveries services apparently kathleen o'toole i'm a fan of peter o'toole my favorite year lordship and of course above all early indications are pretty clear tool and only to she was a part of an effort by many experts in international policing i don't know how international boston is  o'donnell he straightened out that balkan situation i said that once i believe is right here in the old building got on the elevator with shawn he had been gone for like a year or something i said he had sean o'donnell straighten out that balkan situation over there all right in other words china had to be put on ice in a mild sort of way get him out of town send him over yonder and i guess he was in a blue helmet over there in the  all northern ireland  you know it's an extension of a cafe indoors i don't know why they don't have it out now but anyway that is all for now obviously the elevator shot was classic and i believe i had i on viewfinder and good old kathleen got served you know they served with better information than anybody i mean presumably like just like the a c l u gal she probably doesn't read the paper is so if she hasn't bothered to type in seattle police on a google search recently maybe she should have done that because what she would have found out is she just walked into a rock star murder cover up which you can do about that generic and so affable that you can at least say well she came to town and she didn't piss anyone off except me and all the people concerned about transparency the first day you know what that crack the crack about being in witness protection for the last few days but to all the people really matter the union and the rank and file and the union representing the higher ups and everybody wants to get their money money money money out of the situation they're going to be not threatened by her since he didn't show up they didn't introduce the opi a guy maybe because we saw him walk away and he looks like he's about one hundred years old he's from  and israel's looking i mean he's old looking in pictures and i guess that was him and  someone else's bright idea bright boy i mean to say the p d as new shortage of bright boys are with big ideas but an idea that bright only comes along once in a generation and i sure would like to know what brainiac came up with that one when it's the twentieth anniversary when we develop that film and get on t v and it will be like heroes because we'll be letting loose with the vital information that just proves our point of view except he doesn't and take them since he's not a compelling witness to me and obviously the door is wide  town for the last several days which is a ritual that is mysterious to me i recall it happening with chiefs of police here before but it's a little bit bizarre because you're stepping into a city where perhaps a lack of transparency secrecy  the police department is the number one problem no one can understand what's going on inside this police department that we're spending two hundred million dollars a year on without more transparency as an example i just spoke to steve from the times fifteen minutes ago i said do you know where span cody halford died on april fourth he was shot seven times by detective jim rogers where did he die didn't die one seventy one lake washington boulevard one twenty like washington bowl of ard one hundred it has not been released i've made numerous correct proper requests for that information from the public records unit no response they won't tell us where the police gone to this person damn