“We can’t just walk away from people who are doing daily harm to the community.”
A focal point of the Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison’s recently announced High Utilizer Initiative will be an attempt to merge repeat offenders’ misdemeanor charges into a felony. The potential effectiveness of that strategy is far from clear.That process generally involves lumping similar offenses into a single case until they meet thresholds to be considered felony charges.
“Once this has been achieved, the person is ‘competent,’” Daugaard continues. “This has little or nothing to do with someone being stabilized, treated, and equipped to manage independently in the community, and to reduce problematic future behavior.” “The irony here is that you have more control over somebody in a misdemeanor court than you do in the felony court, because a felony court, as long as if the person is not going to prison [and is] remaining in the community, then they’re supervised by a state department corrections officer, but with limited resources, and with really low expectations that anything is going to change in that person’s life,” Satterberg told KIRO Newsradio’s Hanna Scott.
“Sometimes the police will send us a case dressed up as a felony that really should be a misdemeanor,” Satterberg continued. “Sometimes misdemeanors get sent to the city attorney that really shouldn’t be felonies. We just need to coordinate at the operational level to make sure that we can focus on the people who are causing the most harm to the community, and make sure those cases get filed and get in front of a judge.
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