King County Councilmember, and current candidate for King County Executive, Claudia Balducci, is proposing new funding to tackle retail crime.
Balducci wants to establish a new retail crimes task force that would bring in two full-time detectives and one full-time prosecutor to focus on retail thefts.
The money, she says, could come from the county’s newly adopted Safe and Stable Communities Sales Tax, which was established to prevent cuts to public safety services…