Comments on: West Seattle Crime Watch followup: Nicholas Broughton’s bail back to $100,000 – in a new warrant

By: Sandy DuBuque

Sandy DuBuque — Mon, 26 May 2014 00:57:46 +0000

I feel very terribly sorry for the victims of this young mans crimes. I also feel incredibly sorry for Mr. Broughton’s family who have always been very upstanding members of our West Seattle community. Shame on him for the embarrassment he has brought on his family.

By: Hisbird

Hisbird — Sun, 25 May 2014 04:33:12 +0000

Hey J – he is NOT living at his sisters as you stated so matter-of-fact. And shame on you for directing the attention of a warrant search (& blog fueled lynch mob) toward her residence without knowing the truth. You are seriously all vultures – and need to find hobbies. There’s no honor in your vigilante justice – and most of you sound like sociopaths when describing with venom all the ways you could do it better …

By: carole

carole — Fri, 23 May 2014 18:22:53 +0000

Next general election for all superior court judges is 2016. A good resource in an election year is http://www.votingforjudges.org

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 23 May 2014 15:26:31 +0000

I live right next door J, and I do not believe you are correct. I have not seen him once since that night, and he wasn’t exactly a low profile don’t make waves sort of neighbor before the incident.

By: CandrewB

CandrewB — Fri, 23 May 2014 14:59:57 +0000

J, he wouldn’t be driving a white Escalade by chance, would he?

By: fiz

fiz — Fri, 23 May 2014 14:53:45 +0000

He caused immense damage to a WS family and business with that ID theft. He should be in prison. Now.

By: J

Fri, 23 May 2014 05:37:03 +0000

He’s staying at his sister’s house on 47th, where he hid out that night.

By: kumalavula

kumalavula — Fri, 23 May 2014 04:44:27 +0000

the wsb ethics are impeccable and I appreciate the sensitivity to constructive criticism while weighing how long or short to make each story. you can’t please every all the time but it certainly seems as though you e gotten national as well as local kudos for the continuous work you do. i thank you!

By: Buddy

Buddy — Fri, 23 May 2014 03:28:47 +0000

Thank you for all you do WSB!
You give us the important info/heads up in a few sentences or sometimes paragraphs, thus making it a web Log (quick notes is my take on the term) I could be wrong. The rest is up to us Blog readers to delve more deep if we want more info. Its actually pretty easy.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 23 May 2014 01:58:56 +0000

Tracy, you have nothing to be sorry about. The WSB is an outstanding way for us West Seattlites to see what is going on in our community. I for one completely appreciate your efforts!

By: joel

joel — Fri, 23 May 2014 01:43:06 +0000

no money for transit, no money for parks, need money for free pre school…..but yet LOTS of money around to keep arresting this guy. glad our priorities are in order. how about keep this guy locked up and then take the money you would have spent re-arresting and charging/prosecuting/defending him and use that to pay for the buses?

By: West Seattle Hipster

West Seattle Hipster — Fri, 23 May 2014 01:13:08 +0000

Thank you so much WSB for keeping our community well informed on who the criminals our in our neighborhoods are. These updates are extremely useful information. Knowledge truly is power.

The cops seem to be doing a good job, too bad the judicial system can’t.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Fri, 23 May 2014 00:48:18 +0000

I appreciate anyone reporting at all on a small-time criminal whose presence in the community is not a “big” story journalistically.
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You don’t get a Pulitzer from covering guys like Broughton, but for those of us who live here, it’s important.
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The judge info is important to many as well. It can be quite difficult at election time to get any information at all about a judge, and every little bit helps.
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One last thing: the main thing people ask when they found out a criminal has been set loose to roam among us: Who let this guy out?/how did he get out of jail/why is he out?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 23 May 2014 00:36:02 +0000

TR – you coverage was appropriate. My reaction was directed at the armchair judges. We don’t have all of the facts, even with a more detailed report I would have said the same.

By: WSB

WSB — Fri, 23 May 2014 00:21:21 +0000

In reply to Paul.

Constructive criticism is always appreciated. However, in journalism and other kinds of writing, the story stops somewhere; at some point you end the detail. We could add prosecutors. And defense lawyers. And police officers who investigated the case. And the witnesses who called the police. And more. Or, I could not even mention the judges, nor the backstory, and simply say, hey, there’s an arrest warrant out for this guy.
We get criticism for being too short and for being too long. I recently spent more than a month and a half as the only journalist in the courtroom during the Lovett Chambers trial, aside from a couple scattered reports at the start and end of the trial, and wrote thousands of words about each court session. More often, we write short stories, like this one. Any story, whether short or long, could have more detail. The reporter stops somewhere.
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When possible, we make copious usage of links so that anyone who wants to explore for more detail can do so by jumping off to other places. In this case, like so many, I apologize, but there are no links aside from our earlier stories; nobody bothered to cover it past the initial incident. A couple other news outlets jumped in on it that night; we are the only ones who followed up beyond that. That’s what we do. I have a watch list of about two dozen cases at any given time that, along with everything else we are tracking, we check in on, every week or so, to see what’s happened. Takes time. Today, I happened to run through my list after noticing that the electronic court-records service will be offline from tomorrow until Memorial Day. When I got to this case, I noticed the FTA yesterday, and the warrant issuance, and thought, well, that’s a story. And here it is. It’s the best I could do before moving on. Sorry to disappoint some. – Tracy