Washington State Patrol

now we're talking about them. Yeah. So this is the show about things falling apart and kind of part of societal and political stuff kind of crumbling. Usually that gets related to some type of law enforcement agency more often than not. And uh, in terms of like tensions rising in stuff, there's a lot of you know, force gets force gets exerted via law enforcement, and uh one such law enforcement Yeah, well, and one such agency that does

this is called the Washington State Patrol UM. So they were I I don't know, I I just discovered them recently. Uh So they were founded exactly one hundred years ago, um, and they were originally called the Washington State Highway Patrol Um. Now they're just the Washington State Patrol. They were moved highway but they still do the same thing. They're basically glorified traffic cops, um, who operate all around all around

Washington State. UM. And we're gonna talk about some of the ways that they've been making things worse within the past decade. UM. I'm since they have a one hundred year history, I'm sure we can find lots of historical examples. UM. But we're we're gonna we're gonna do stuff that's more that is more recent, because this is, you know, generally

trying to keep things around the current, the current crumbling. Um. And because we're gonna talk about police, the first the first thing we're gonna be discussing, oddly enough, is a racism because I know, um, when you think of Washington State Patrol, that's you know, it's it's kind of shocking

that they might have a race issue. UM. So anyway, twelve years ago, researchers working with working with Washington State Patrol found that troopers were searching drivers from minority communities, particularly um local Native American tribes, at a much higher rate than than white people. And they recommend an additional study, which the Washington State Patrol declined to uh to investigate further,

they they're like no, um, no, no more studies. So meanwhile, since then, the troopers have continued to continue to search Native Americans at a at a rate much higher more than five times than that of of of white people in the area. Yeah. So but there are five times as the popular there. There's five times as many Indigenous people in Washington as white people right there, there's noth Yeah.

So an analysis by Investigate West showed that the Patrol continued to do searches at a much elevated rates for for black people, Latino Pacific Islanders, and Natives within Washington State. Um. And yet when when troopers did decide to search white motorists, they were more likely to find drugs in contraband. UM. Which is something to Washington State Patrol actually acknowledges is that when they search people of minority communities, they are

less likely to find to find illegal things. Yeah. I mean that's yeah nationwide and very very robust data. So UM, government records obtained via like information requests and various other you know of public records searches UM also show that there there there is a state law that Washington State Patrol is supposed to collect and report semiannually to the Criminal Justice Training Commission in Washington. UM about you know, race and ethnicity data of motorists is stopped by troopers.

But uh so this is supposed is supposed to happen semi annually. But the agency report of those findings only three times in the past fifteen years, which isn't sounds kind of like the Portland police were not doing the things that federally they're supposed to do because they're so violent. Yeah, so being out of compliance with a bunch of federal rags three three times, three times in fifteen years is not semi annually. Based on what I know, the term

semi annually to semi decade. So yeah. Um, based on responses for over thirty public records requests UM from from three different agencies looking looking at Washington State Patrol and more than like fifty interviews with current and formal law enforcement officials and people with experience interacting with Washington State Patrol UM and also data from millions of traffic stops. All this was looked at in total, examined about eight million traffic stops from two US and nine tow US

in fifteen. This is what investigate West was doing. UM, which was which was the most recent data available, and the analysis found that, uh, it focused on incidents of what researchers called like high discretion searches. That's when troopers had the most like personal leeway to decide whether or not to pull over and search a vehicle. UM. Black drivers were twice as likely to be searched as white drivers, and Latino specific calendars were eight percent more likely to

be searched. Of of these incidents where officers had discretion and like they could choose whether or not to pull someone over. UM, So it wasn't like it wasn't like they were like obviously speeding or doing you know, like like you know like like regular like actually observable traffic violations. This is when like people could choose when they investigate West.

Thing got published, they contact Washingt State Patrol and the spokesperson said that, uh, here's here's here's the quote that the race race was not the only factor when troopers decide whom to search, and that's partially because blacks, Native Americans and Latinos are more like more more likely to be regardless of how much discretion troopers have, which that

doesn't really make very much sense. Um, I don't know what the person, I don't know what they mean is they're more likely to regardless what, who is that bad checking the copy? Which is weird because later on the spokesperson said that, Um, same guy, we're in the basically we're agrees that we're in a basic agreement that minorities are searched at higher rates, but we find less contraband

so um. And he also he also noted that complaints about like a racial bias encounted for little more than ten percent of all complaints of the state patrol filed last year. So I guess he thinks that's a good He thinks that's a good stat Yeah, he's proud of that. Yeah. Um. And another kind of uh, not great thing is that uh. The analysis found that not only are Native Americans more likely to be searched, but all of the most of those searches happen always that like the edges of reservations UM.

The analysis found that the two highest concentration of searches of Native Americans by state troopers are on the US nineties seven, where it encounters um A reservation at ol Mac about about a mile from its intersection at a state wrote one fifty five, which is and more than one thirty miles south of of the same when the

same highway enters another reservation. So nearly one third of high discretions of high discretion searches, so when troopers can decide whether or not to pull someone over like like they they they have more discretion whether they can. So one third of those happened on these two stretches of highway right on the edges of these reservations, like they're

patrolling outside these reservations to specifically do this. Um there was I I saw an interview on this topic that we've talked that talked to to Native Americans in this area and they're like, yeah, every time we leave the reservation, we get pulled over. But then we watched tons of white motorists go by and no one cares, like and like and they're like you're doing like they're just speeding by, it doesn't matter. Um. So yeah, that is that is

the first first you know, unsurprising tidbit about uh. Some an organization who started as a highway patrol is, yeah, they're gonna pull people over who are not white more often that is that's pretty not not super shocky. Yeah, and then makes a public statement like l o O yeah yeah that that does. That does sound a lot like with the Washington State Patrol. Uh sounds like, um, so we're gonna so that that was That was the first obvious thing. Uh. This next part is a little

bit more fun. Um. So in in in two thousand nine, the Washington State Patrol made made the decision to fire eight troopers, which is you know, pretty pretty rare um And the reason why they got fired is because they used fake diplomas to claim pay raises. Yeah, so there was there was this whole scheme about getting fake diplomas to get the troopers more money, like like like individual people that there's this whole, this whole operation going on. It resulted in the in in a in a people

getting fired. So troopers can can boost their pay about two percent by earning a two a two year degree or four percent with a four year degree. And there was this group of of a troopers who just uh started just forging diplomas see Garrison. This is a separate conversation. But they didn't need to forge diplomas. They could have just become doctors of of of of magic, like that is what I've tried to do religious PhD. Yeah, so there's all sorts of fake diploma mills. Come on, washing

didn't State Highway Patrol. This is pretty funny. So so the investigation began after federal agents shut down a diploma mill in the Spokane. Criminal charges were not filed, but the patrol to decide to fire these eight troopers. Yeah. So that is one of the more funny things we'll be talking about today. And I think it's time for an ad break um. Yeah, speaking of funny, here's these ads that may or may not be the people we're talking about. Rob No unrelated, unrelated. Uh we're back, which

is also unrelated. Yeah. Another thing that's putten pretty common around police is that the past few years they generally don't think COVID is really real, or that it is the past few years. Now that Robert, we're less than a month away from two. Yeah, I hate that. It's like it's it's like it's almost two. Almost ten percent of your entire life has been COVID. I'm not going to think about math um. So generally they don't think COVID is real, and also they think vaccines are the

mark of Satan or something. Well obviously they are. But yeah, so in in in mid October this this past October, Washingtons Tate Patrol announced that one hundred and twenty seven of its employees lost their job after the state's COVID

nineteen vaccine mandate deadline of October eighteen. So, unlike the Portland Police Bureau who who, the port who Port and many other cities where city officials caved to the demands of the police that vaccine mandates not be not be extended towards police, uh, this did not happen in Washington and they actually got it enforced. So over a hundred uh Patrol employees quit quit their job, including a sixty four commissioned officers. It was like six sixty seven troopers,

six sergeants, and one captain. Um. Yeah, so, you know, Washington State Patrol has about two thousand personnel within like between like eight districts um, So losing like a hundred and twenty seven of them is not a it's not an insignificant loss. Um And it's it's been a it's it has been been trying to hire a lot more people in the in the past in the past like

a few months. Because of this, they've been they've been trying to do a lot more recruitment, which is why they're Um, I've heard from other people that they are putting uh advertisements out on the internet to become a Washington State trooper. This is something I've I've heard from from people online when I've been doing all of this uh deep deep, extensive research. So yeah, they are, they are, they are recruiting. Uh So, if you want to be

a Washington Patrol officer, don't don't. Actually that's a bad idea. Um, don't do that. Yeah, I mean us act you want to like really funk with people who live on a reservation. If that's if that's your goal, it's Washington State Highway Patrol is your your dream career? Or have another option for you. You could also just get COVID and die. Well, yeah, that is an option. That's an option to thing I think might be freedom is what makes this nation great.

Uh So I think you know of the choice. Anyway, continue Harrison. I'm gonna send a picture inside our group chat first because we're gonna were gonna be talking about one one specific evil dude. Next, I'm setting a picture in the group chat that I want you to look at first, just so you get a sense of who we're talking about. Oh, based, okay, I'm I'm excited. Yeah, all right. Hit Oh no, oh no, the boat I really brings it all together. Oh no, you said bow tie,

which does not make me optimistic. And Robert, oh no, what is wrong with it? Who? Yeah? Who puts a bow tie on a uniform? Like guys, I found a better quality image. Um, good god, here we go, the same image better He looks like Tucker Carlson and the Starship Troopers universe when he gets drafted. So this is the next guy we're talking about. Um, somehow feels like I hate crime towards the Weasley family. So yeah, it feels like a hate crime towards the guy based off

Tucker Carlson in Starship Troopers. So this would be a big fan of ron Ron Weasley's family. This this is this is Sean Carrum, a former Washington State Patrol a sergeant um who resigned for reasons. We will discuss fun.

That's exciting. Yeah yeah anyway. Um. So in two US and fifteen and Associated Press investigation uncovered about a thousand officers in the United States who lost their badges over a six year period for sex crimes or misconduct such as like, uh, this is this is a quote here, which I disagree with framing here, but this is this is a quote propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on duty intercourse, which is uh, pretty bullshit way to

frame that because basically you're it's it's police raping people. Um, and police officers being accused of like using their power over people to rape them is extremely common. Yeah, and it's often just like, yeah, well the person said okay, And it's like, well they said okay to a person with a gun and the legal power to murder anyone they want or put them into jail. Like like there's

a lot of stuf. Yeah, you know, I would argue you can't consent uh to sex with a police officer who's on duty and in uniform because it's they have the power to murder or anybody want or who just arrest you. Like, like it's a lot of stuff. So, like there was a studied at least a few years ago that an analyzed data of like a five hundred and fifty arrest cases from the years of two US

and five two US and seven. This is just two years and UH and a four hundred officers employed by like three D and twenty non non federal law enforcement agencies located throughout a forty three states. Um AND findings indicated that a police sexual misconduct includes a serious forms of sex with related crimes, and the victims of sex related crimes by police are typically younger than eighteen years old. UM.

So it's it happens a lot with miners. So there's a lot like like more like a ridiculously common like if you if you google is which I honestly don't recommend, but you can find like dozens of stories coming out like basically every like not you'll find at least one new story every month of a kid getting raped by police. It happens pretty commonly. So over the past ten years, in the Washington State Patrol, they've investigated and confirmed four cases of what they call sex on duty UM according

to the agency, and this is including including Shan Carr. Now, Sean Car's cases particularly sensitive for the agency because he was married to the UH the daughter of the Washington State Patrol Chief um and, and Shaun Carr was also himself a sergeant, so he was connected to like the big leagues at the Washington State Patrol. So Car met a civilian woman who also works at Washington State Patrol but as like you know, like has like an office job,

so they isn't isn't a trooper. Um. They met in twelve and struck up an online friendship, and a few months later they both of them told investigators that the relationship did turn sexual. UM. Car admitted to six sexual encounters for the next like five years with the woman, of five of which happened when he was on duty and like on state property or driving a vehicle or while in uniform. UM. But the woman recalled as many as as twenty and all but one of them were

when he was on duty and well. And so the woman said that most of their encounters were were what she would describe as consensual, but she described three incidents where Car did pushed the boundary and she she she has described being raped by him multiple times. UM, so there was there was an incident. I think the first one happened in the beginning of UH with inside his patrol car in a church parking lot. UH. The woman had recently started dating another man, and Carr wanted to

know who it was. When she wouldn't say so, he uh, he grabbed her arm hard enough to leave bruises, and the woman said that Car made her pick from two options, give up the name of the man or give car oral sex. Um. Car later told investigators that he said us in a quote joking context, Oh that's you know, I was thinking, because that's almost exactly my my tight

five for my stand up set. I mean some some comedians for some reason do like making jokes like that and not not not great usually not great to normalize that kind of thing. So um. The woman said that she did like like s his his like commands and she's which she said, we're like very much not done consent. Yeah, and she said it's very much not consensual. Um. She She told investigators that he raped me on the side

of the road. Um. And if and if it was anyone else besides Car, she she she she said she would have called nine one one. Um. So the second time happened when a car backed her into a corner of a highway away station and forced her to have sex with him. Um. She called it a coerced Car said that consent was mutual. So despite the sexual assaults, uh and and and like and you know and and like assaults you know, like you know, grapping someone's army.

Hard to believe a bruise, she said. The woman said she kept in touch with Car because she was going through a difficult time in her life and she needed somebody to talk to. Complicated. That's yeah, that this is even like people who are abusive can also be emotionally supportive sometimes, Like that's one of the things about abuse

that says a real, real motherfucker. It's not simple. So yeah, Car Car may not have gotten in trouble had the woman not confided in another patrol employee after she left her job. UM. Then the other other patrol employee mentioned the situation to someone higher up, triggering an investigation. UM. And then in twenty nineteen, the woman formally reported Car to uh TO to like the Patrol Office of Professional Standards.

So records started that the patrol of pretty quickly confiscated cars, badge, and gun and placed him on home assignment, where he remained until he and he resigned voluntarily. UM. The patrol gave gave the case to the Sheriff's office to investigate because of the criminally chur of the allegations. So Car's personal file includes other on job violations, including using a

taser on a drunk driving suspect. He was handcuffed, and records show that in February, Car was accused of frequenting a coffee stand and making unwanted advances on an employee by waiting near her car until her shift ended, and making derogatory comments about her boyfriend. Um, so she was also stalking this barista. Is what it sounds like? Um? Yeah, yeah,

that's that is what that sounds like. Terrifying. So yeah, so Car after the woman told investigators that she was raped after um, the the county sheriffs recommended hard to be filed. But she wasn't willing to. Um, she wasn't willing to testify. She did not want to. She did not want to do that. Um. But but she she didn't tell prosecutors that she did have one wish that that Car again, the son in law of the state patrol chief be be not not allowed to police again.

UM yeah, that's a pretty reasonable request. Car of obviously denied all the accusations of non consensual sex and assault, but you know, it did admit to a to a consensual sexual relationship on duty UM, as well as other you know, like patrol regulation violations. UM. He he resigned in July before the patrol could decide whether or not to fire him UM and then the state went about trying to strip him of his law enforcement certificasion requirement to carry a gun and badge and be hired as

law enforcement in Washington. Getting de certified forms conduct by the Criminal Justice Training Center in Washington is very hard. Very few people have actually been decertified. Yeah, And to to be certified, the panel must be a panel must be convinced on duty behavior rose to the level of official misconduct and constituted a crime committed under the color of authority as a peace officer. That's the that's the

color of authorities an interesting way to phrase that. Cars attorneys argued that the state failed to make to meet this high bar and there was quote no legal basis to decertified car. Meanwhile, the c j a t S the Criminal Justice Training Center alleged his behavior did constitute official misconduct and failure of duty, but without actually they

didn't actually include the sexual assault allegations. Instead, it contended that he used state resources for his own benefit or neglected to do his duties when he was engaged in sexual activity on duty. So they didn't actually include sexual assault or anything in this. They just said you were basically like you were because you were doing because you were having like sexual activity on duty, you weren't doing your job and that's the reason that we want to

decertify you. Um. So, the date of Washington has about eleven thousand certified officers at any given time UM and since to us in three they've decertified like two hundred and thirty and at least four of them for on duty sex and one of those cases was overturned on

appeal um. But in one around mid May, the c j TC in its final order said that Cars constituted uh crimes of of failure of duty and official misconduct by, among other things, quote, intentionally choosing to pursue his own sexual gratification rather than using his on duty time to perform his lawful responsibilities as a peace officer. So he he did get decertified, but again not actually discussing the

actual like assaults and rapes. Um. Yeah, So the the the sheriff County prosecutor's office designed declined to pursue charges on the case last year when the woman was unwilling to testify, but the deputy prosecuting attorney UM did say that she she believed they just happened, like like she

she believes this that the stuff happened. But because of the lack of evidence due to time passing and the woman not wanting to testify, there it's hard to prove guilt in court, so they're not going to pursue these charges at the moment. Yeah, So that that is uh, that is Shawn Carr. So that yeah, he is not not not allowed to police as of one. That is

a cursory glance at stuff that you Washington State Patrol. Oh, I guess one of the one other thing I found out today is that so Washington State Patrol has a has a psychologist for UM recruitings basically for if you want to join the patrol, you have to go like through like a psychological screening. Sure, that makes sense. And he just just resigned because he was he was he

was probably going to get fired. UM. This was after Seattle Times and Public Radio Northwest News Network UH published a peace show showing that since uh, the psychological screenings rejected where is it? Uh rejected of white candidates over the past four years. Um, but the psychologists that they hired, uh rejected of black candidates, of Hispanic candidates, and forty

one percent of Asian candidates. So again, I'm not pro people being police in general, but there is a clear disparity on who they are wanting to become police, like who like who are they? They're letting in a lot more white candidates than they are letting in candidates of color. Um. So this this uh, this psychologist screener is is no

longer on the job as of like a few days ago. Um. Yeah, so just another another level of stuff because yeah, you know, there's they want there to be more white officers than anything else. Um. So yeah, that is that is the Washington State Patrol. I guess the one other thing I want to do is I'm gonna again send in the group chat. Their their current logo, their current logo current you're smirking. I hate it when you do this. I'm afraid. I don't know, Sophie. Maybe it'll be fine. It's actually

it's it's it's kind of fun. That's their logo. That is their current logo. They design it in like paint, Yes, they probably they probably did design it in MS paint. Oh man, Yeah, that that looks like it belongs in an angel Fire website. Gar So do you know what angel Fire was? I do not. Oh my god, you fucking teenageers. Um. Yeah, that looks like it belongs in

an angel I will. I will let all of the other people who feel very old right now know that it looks like something you'd see in an angel Fire website, like shittlely animated blinking across the screen. Yeah, you know, it looks like something from a ninety nineties website. All right, Well, now I'm both angry about the police and I feel a thousand years old. So this is good? What a good? What a good? What a good feeling? Well that that

wraps that. That wraps it up for today. Um and hey again, I have heard that they are recruiting and they should have a new psychological screener soon. So great, there we go. I'm imagining the primary psychological screening is you're white, right, that's that's that is what it used to be. I mean, I'm imagining that's what it's going to be still probably maybe not all right. Well, this has been a great time. I'm sure everybody's feeling good. Uh goodbye, bye, get out of my house. It could

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