Police Accountability for Spokane

10/24/2025

The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year! All the best in 2025!

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

11/28/2024

C.O.P.S. or cops?

This is my response to the RANGE piece below.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1RHQWYqgTc/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Community policing nonprofit Spokane C.O.P.S. (not the cops) could lose their longstanding funding as the city looks closer at the org.

06/04/2020

Want an action to take now to address the outrage in our community?

We need action now in Spokane to help deal with police accountability.

Our Police Guild has too much power to dictate how police abuses will be handled. Unfortunately, the Mayor has negotiated a contract with the Police Guild that fails to provide the police oversight required by our City Charter. This new contract could be considered by City Council as soon as June 15. Please email the Mayor and City Council and tell them that our community demands the Police Oversight required by our City Charter.

Email to [email protected] and [email protected].

04/12/2018

For hours after he was shot by a Spokane Police officer in December 2017, Joshua Spotted Horse's body lay in the street uncovered, handcuffed and...

03/21/2018

The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to release its report on the Spokane Police Department’s reforms after a public records request and appeal by The Spokesman-Review.

03/17/2018

https://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2018/03/16/spd-tried-to-punish-sgt-gately-for-tipping-off-an-officer-being-investigated-for-r**e-then-the-police-guild-got-involved

Sgt. John Gately was president of the Spokane Police Guild when he tipped off a cop who was accused of ra**ng a fellow Spokane Police...