Crime concerns found the police union in one sanctuary city calling out the socialist mayor’s “disastrous policy” pitting local law enforcement up against federal officers.
A side effect of increasingly radical leftist policies has been to drive off conservative to moderate voters, resulting in a downward spiral to socialism. Among the freshman class of big city executive’s embracing collectivism, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s (D) anti-ICE posturing found the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) decrying the skewed priorities that have failed to address crime.
“I think the center focus on that right now is ICE,” SPOG President Kent Loux told Fox News Digital little more than two months after the Democrat had instituted a policy requiring local law enforcement to track and investigate federal immigrations agents.
“It is the immigration. It’s the federal feud that the mayor’s office is having with the federal government. That is the confusion,” he went on. “I think if she wants to have her feud, have it. Leave SPOG out of it. We do not need to be a part of it, we have been a political on all these demonstrations. We clearly can demonstrate that. We are not worried about taking a side. We’re not wanting to take a side, but putting us in this crossfire physically or potentially politically just isn’t fair to SPOG members.”
Loux’s predecessor Mike Solan had slammed Wilson’s policy to track and investigate federal agents, asserting, “Toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives.”
“The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen. I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns,” added Solan.
Fast forward to April, and Loux insisted, “The current city’s policy on us investigating ICE is very confusing for officers.”
“What does investigating mean? What does identifying mean? This is a disastrous policy that is potentially putting officers and federal law enforcement officers pitting against one another,” he continued. “Not just maybe a physical crossfire situation, but also a political crossfire situation.”
Asserting the force was doing its best, he implored, “Understand, please understand, that the criminal justice system is much larger than just the police officers. We are hitting obstacles with King County Medical Jail declines. We’re hitting obstacles with prosecution, with judges releasing people.”
“We are spinning our wheels, and it really is trying on us. Please understand we are hundreds of officers short. And we have people working extra shifts all the time to just get to minimums,” said Loux. “So we are working, delays are sometimes significant. We’re trying to improve that as best we can, but people are — we are stretched thin.”
System failure was highlighted by Melanie Roberts, the granddaughter of Ruth Dalton, who was murdered during an Aug. 20, 2024 carjacking. The alleged perpetrator is said to be an eight-time convicted felon, Jahmed Haynes, who failed to trigger the city’s three-strike law and avoided trial for Dalton’s murder by repeatedly being deemed incompetent.
“He had been out of jail for, I want to say, seven years at the time that he killed my grandmother,” Roberts said. “By his own admission, he was not on the straight and narrow for those seven years. He had committed other crimes but had not been caught. So frustrating to think that if the system would have been a little better, if a deal hadn’t been cut in 2003, he would have been caught on any other charges [and] maybe my grandmother would still be alive. I feel it’s a failure of the system.”
She further slammed the state as “very pro-criminal and very anti-victim.”
Supporting that notion, Wilson was called out by SPOG for pausing the expansion of the city’s Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) cameras even as analysis determined that the system made it three times more likely that criminals would be arrested and brought to justice. “You can’t make this up. If you care about victims, you don’t sideline the tools that help solve crimes. This isn’t compassion — it’s contradiction.”
SPD: RTCC cameras TRIPLE the odds victims get justice.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson: Let’s pause expanding them.
You can’t make this up.
If you care about victims, you don’t sideline the tools that help solve crimes.
This isn’t compassion – it’s contradiction. @MayorofSeattle… pic.twitter.com/7kR7wFPBfI— Seattle Police Officers Guild (@SPOG1952) April 9, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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