Jared Niewenhuis, council member for the City of Bellevue, is wrong in his commentary recently published at www.chronline.com when he tries to convince your readers that more police equals more safety.
Here’s why:
You know who has a nearly identical police population per capita as Jared tells you Washington suffers? The country of Finland. They have about three quarters the population of Washington. They have 1.36 police officers per 1,000 people…