Tag: spd
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SPD’s new Get Your Bike Back effort works!
Get Your Bike Back works! Just now from SPD: Just got our 1st bike back to its owner w/ @GetYourBikeBack ! We've added more bikes to the feed, so check it out! pic.twitter.com/PjBk0VL3Y4 — Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) September 12, 2013 As we reported recently, SPD has launched a new Twitter account that hopes to…
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City Attorney to police: Don’t write a ticket at scene when someone walking or biking is injured
Sometimes it feels like salt in a wound. Somebody walking or biking in town is seriously injured by someone behind the wheel, and the person driving—even if they did something wrong—does not even get a ticket at the scene. But the Seattle City Attorney’s Office (“SCAO”) sent a memo to SPD recently explaining that this…
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SPD launches stolen bike recovery project: ‘Get Your Bike Back’
The Seattle Police Department has launched a new Twitter feed to help connect owners with recovered bikes. As with cars, some bike thefts are really just people taking a joyride. The thief rides the bike a little, then ditches it. Residents or workers call police to report an unknown bike in in their front yard…
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Man forced to drop bike and climb wall as person slams jeep into reverse down Ship Canal Trail
I received an email from a reader with a crazy and terrifying story: He was almost run down by someone driving on the Ship Canal Trail July 13 just west of Seattle Pacific University. Ryan (he didn’t want me to use his full name because he is not sure about the mental state of this…
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In Seattle, cycling cops have critical mass
There was a time not long ago when one of the most prominent images of urban cycling in Seattle was one of social rebellion. Once much larger than today, Critical Mass drew cheers and scorn alike. Ultra-low-budget bike repair co-ops taught people how to wrench their rusty found road bikes back into working order, and…
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Police looking for person on bike who chased Green Lake attacker
A woman running at Green Lake around 6:30 a.m. Monday morning was attacked by an unknown man who tried to drag her into some nearby bushes, police say. She was able to get free from him, and a man on a bike saw the suspect and chased him. The suspect was able to get away,…
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