Comments on: West Seattle Crime Watch followup: Nicholas Broughton sought by police, days after a plea bargain

By: Ex-Westwood Resident

Ex-Westwood Resident — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:27:19 +0000

Datamuse,
UNICOR is a Federal program, not a state program.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons runs it. The BoP also has work details at ALL its facilities. Inmates that have skills are put to work in that field. If they show initiative and want to learn a skill they ask to be detailed to a work crew. They do get paid, not alot, but it’s not slave labor and anything they buy through the commissary puts that money in the system for inmate recreation, i.e. new TVs, exersice equipment…etc.
I don’t believe the WA DoC has a program like that.

By: datamuse

datamuse — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:52:18 +0000

You might want to do some research on those work programs, anonyme. For example, everything UNICOR manufactures is made by convict labor.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:39:46 +0000

Well CB100, I guess he’s just really good at his um “job”.

By: CB100

CB100 — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:26:24 +0000

I watched this unfold Sunday night while unloading my car. Heard lots of yelling and looked up to see the cops chasing this guy. He jumped a fence and they tried to TASER him but missed. Should have shot him. Not sure how he got so far so quick because there were cops everywhere and one in a car right on his tail.

By: WSB

WSB — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:23:35 +0000

In reply to anonyme.

http://www.doc.wa.gov/family/offenderlife/workassignments.asp
http://www.doc.wa.gov/aboutdoc/docs/p351bcifactsinglesheet.pdf

By: anonyme

anonyme — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:28:43 +0000

I personally think it was a mistake to do away with work programs (“chain gangs”) in prison. Clean up trash, make license plates, repair our crappy roads – there’s lots to be done. As it stands, there is no way for criminals to pay back society. They should all be given ‘jobs’ in prison so that they know what it feels like. But first, they have to make it to prison…which is where this guy belongs.

City government has a million ways to work the stats to tell any story they wish. They may say “crime is down” only because they’ve refused to charge felons with crimes, or bargained down the charge.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:57:43 +0000

@Get a clue, I hope you’re joking. Comparing someone smoking marijuana, to someone who steals people’s identities? Identity theft can ruin (other) people’s lives. This guy needs to be put away. Oh and before you use the “well what if the marijuana smoker was driving and crashed into your family’s car and hurt or killed a family member?” Well smoking marijuana in Washington state is legal within certain places, like alcohol. Driving under the influence is illegal.

@tinah. Well I seem to remember Alan Polevia (sic?) getting some pretty lax treatment not all that long ago. The Latino guy who just stole the SUV with the baby inside had this on his on him:

The man who was arrested was booked into King County Jail just after 7 pm and is being held for investigation of kidnapping and vehicle theft; three domestic-violence cases are listed in his entry on the jail register – one listed as violation of a no-contact order. and the other two as fourth-degree assault.

Eric: In June this is what he did:

The suspect, who turns 25 years old tomorrow, has a home less than a block away from today’s incident, according to court documents from the June case involving the no-contact-order violation. The case involved an incident in June at the home of the suspect’s girlfriend, in the Puget Ridge area – he allegedly took her car without permission, and, according to the documents, almost left with the girlfriend’s 7-year-old daughter in the car. The girlfriend tried to stop him from driving it away; the court documents say, he used a Taser-type device to hurt her. Her daughter got out of the car before he left with it; he later abandoned it, the court papers say, after crashing it into a utility pole.

Eric: I’d say that is pretty lax treatment for this guy to have been out after doing that. I don’t care what their color is. I think all three of the guys should be put away for a while.

By: brandon

brandon — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:08:15 +0000

If we hadn’t nixed a new jail, we’d have had a place to put him.

By: Get a Clue

Get a Clue — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:52:10 +0000

OK, Seattle, mostly non-violent felon here. Just like your average marijuana dealer. So with dope, you all voted to just let everyone go and legalize it. So what do you want to do with guys like this? Clearly, jail is not the answer….right? I mean, how stupid is it to make our incarceration policy a baseball analogy (“three strikes”) when all that does is clog our jails with non-violent offenders. Come on, Seattle, we’re liberal enough to say “it’s all good” with dope, so let’s legalize guys like this — maybe we can have a dunk tank he’s got to sit in, or something. Let’s have a referendum! It’s fun!

By: wetone

wetone — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:38:39 +0000

Criminals organized and non love Seattle easiest place in the nation for them to do as they wish with the smallest repercussions. Getting worse daily. Don’t really care about what our Seattle government and police say on how crime is down, anyone who has lived in this town a long time knows better and has seen the decline. Theft has been an all time high in many areas of this city this last year. Small stuff to large fraud cases involving the elderly with little help from our judicial system. I see it only getting worse with the people we have running this town. No better proof than stories like this one involving Broughton……

By: ScubaFrog

ScubaFrog — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:43:19 +0000

I’m so tired of seeing this terrorist in the news. He’s victimized so many people. I hope the plea deal is nixed, and that he’s forced to remain in custody with no bail. He should face trial, with a 3-strike life sentence. COME ON SEATTLE JUDGES/PROSECUTORS. 11 felonies… 3-strikes must only be applied to minorities in our community (I understand it’s up to the prosecutors when/who to apply it with). If a criminal like Broughton can escape the 3-strike law, then it shouldn’t ever be applied.

By: B

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:12:51 +0000

Why were the police looking for him? I’ve read the article and I can’t seem to find why they were looking for him now.

By: WSB

WSB — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:33:04 +0000

In reply to tinah. RT - "three strikes" doesn't apply to every crime. I can't find the link right this second but many "property crimes" don't qualify. Tina, I wish there were an easy way to statistically check that. . All I can say is that we have covered repeat offenders of various ethnicities these past seven years of publishing news on WSB, and the "in-and-out-and-in-again" types have been of various ethnicities. . Just a few cases that come to mind ... here and here. (The latter went back to jail in July, months after leaving prison, and is still there.) Conversely, one of the longest sentences we've seen levied lately was this one. Caveat, again, that's just anecdotal ... TR

By: RT

RT — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:19:36 +0000

What ever happened to “three strikes and you’re out”? RT

By: tinah

tinah — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:11:34 +0000

Would a person of color get the same lax treatment?