The low-level drug crimes have incarcerated an entire generation of young people and mostly people of color. We cannot arrest our way out of society’s problems… We as police executive need to realize that.
— King County Sheriff John Urquhart, discussing the future of policing with newly hired chiefy deputy Jim Pugel, who was formerly the interim Seattle police chief.
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