Seattle city attorney candidates express vastly different views on justice system

Ann Davison or Nicole Thomas-Kennedy will replace Pete Holmes as prosecutor.

SEATTLE – Seattle voters will decide whether their next city attorney works towards a system that focuses more on community programs and less on policing, or whether the office is about impartial political advice and compliance with the law.

The person elected will replace Pete Holmes and serve for a four-year term.

Ann Davison

Ann Davison is a lawyer who once ran for Seattle City Council as a Democrat and was Vice-Governor as a Republican.

She is aiming again for a public office as city attorney, this time as non-partisan.

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Davison believes the prosecution is not there to set guidelines or be a “place for radical agendas”. It is a place to give impartial advice to the elected, to establish guidelines and comply with laws to ensure public safety.

During a recent interview with KING 5, Davison said that crime has only increased in recent years. The city, she said, is struggling to “want to be compassionate and compassionate,” but is also trying to maintain a sense of order.

While some believe the city should handle crimes differently and focus less on law enforcement, Davison said some crimes are important because they are committed by serious criminals. Even wrongdoing, she said, can mean “the end of business, the end of jobs and the end of tax revenues” for the city.

Crimes such as stealing catalytic converters have been accepted as what happens in the city, she said. Davison believes “the time has come to ask for better customer service.”

Nicole Thomas-Kennedy

Nicole Thomas-Kennedy was a public defender and self-proclaimed abolitionist who seeks to reinvent the prosecution and prosecution of offenders.

If elected, the idea would not be to completely wipe out the current justice system overnight. The idea, she explained in a recent interview with KING 5, would be to build community-based resources so that the city doesn’t need the judiciary for everything.

She doesn’t think the city can just eliminate police and prisons and everything will be fine.

“It’s about reinvesting in the community,” she said.

She raised her eyebrows on tweets, including calling the people who started a juvenile detention center building site “heroes” and tweeting “Destroying property is a moral imperative” in response to last year’s protests.

Thomas-Kennedy said the reason for the latter tweet was because the city acted as if property and human life were the same, “and they are not”. However, last summer she had no plans to run for office and said “things deliberately inflammatory”. She doesn’t believe that people should burn buildings down.

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