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Tiffiny Ryan, left, sister of slain Lakewood police officer Tina Griswold, speaks to the media in Spokane alongside Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick during a press conference this afternoon. (Jesse Tinsley/SR)
The sister of a police officer shot to death in a Lakewood coffee shop made a tearful plea today for the arrest of the suspect. “My worst nightmare has come true,” said Tiffiny Ryan, who works in the records department at the Spokane Police Department. Standing with her husband, Spokane County sheriff’s deputy Beau Vucinich, Ryan described her sister, Tina Griswold, as “the world to me” and said she wants the killer “to know what he took from us.” Griswold and three colleagues were gunned down Sunday morning as they sat with their computers preparing for the day. Since the shooting, Spokane police have been told not to do reports or other computer work in public places/Meghann M. Cuniff, Sirens & Gavels. More here.
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mike_s on November 30 at 3:19 p.m.
… and the Spokesman's front page today was dedicated mostly to a feature story on the remodel of a Browne's Addition home? (Though the L.A. Times and USA Today both ran as their lead photos the tragic police shooting in the state of Washington.)
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Bent on November 30 at 4:06 p.m.
Hey Beau Vucinich is a former Post Falls cop… I went to chool with his brother and worked with his mother for awhile…
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JaneQC on November 30 at 8:40 p.m.
I believe Tiffiny Ryan is a former PFPD dispatcher, Bent.
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Rami Amaro on December 01 at 6:25 a.m.
I've been stressing this for years.
There are three prongs to the criminal justice system: 1) Justice for the victim; 2) Punishment for the convicted; and 3) Rehabilitation.
Far too often the judicial system focuses on number three to the exclusion of numbers one and two. There is supposed to be a hiearchy here! Rehabilitation of violent offenders or offenders who prey on those unable to protect themselves (children, elderly, handicapped …) should occur DURING incarceration! There should be none of these early releases (look at the Duncan case), none of these temporary releases to have Thanksgiving at home, and none of these insanely short sentences for rapes, murders and child molestations. The justice system MUST place victim's rights above criminals (this is AFTER conviction after all) to protect society.
If current politicians and judges won't do this - put somebody in office who will. Otherwise crime will simply get worse until we are no longer free to even leave our homes without fear of being a victim.
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