How to handle prolific offenders on the streets of Seattle
There are a few Seattleites who commit a big proportion of the city’s crime. Why is that the case, and what’s being done? Also, a look at the souls of coders.
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Dan Satterberg and Pete Holmes on prolific offenders
Seattle businesses and neighborhood groups released a report in February on the people in King County who commit crimes, are released from jail, and go on to commit more crimes -- so-called "prolific offenders." Bill Radke spoke to King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg and City Attorney Pete Holmes.
Judges Veronica Alicea-Galván and Johanna Bender
King County Superior Court judges Veronica Alicea-Galván and Johanna Bender also see some of these offenders in their courthouses. We asked them how diversion programs, and compassion, contribute to their judicial toolbox.
Clive Thompson, Coders
More and more, technology rules everything around us. But who’s making the tech? Journalist Clive Thompson wanted to know more about the people behind the machines. So he learned to code himself, in the process of writing a new book called Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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