Davison was speaking with former Seattle Times columnist Joni Balter at the Crosscut Festival’s May 7 session “Pushing Public Safety,” about crime in Seattle and Davison’s promise to be a hardliner as city attorney.
Any city attorney’s announcement to drop 2,000 cases would be newsworthy. But Davison was elected last November with a tough-on-crime platform and had strongly criticized her opponent’s plan to not prosecute misdemeanors as an extremist view that would make the city less safe — something Davison’s critics jumped on when she announced the dropped cases.
At the Crosscut Festival, Davison explained that dismissing the cases was necessary to clear up capacity so that her office can
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