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Good Cop, Sad Cop

Meet former King County Sheriff's Deputy Angela Holland. She was a great street cop with numerous commendations and a spotless record. But she was mildly bipolar, so they fired her.

A A A Comments By Philip Dawdy Wednesday, Mar 30 2005
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Last year, an SPD sergeant used CIT concepts to talk a suicidal man off of the Space Needle's halo.

It has doubtlessly also saved the lives of officers facing down mentally ill people with weapons. The training could prove useful, too, the next time a King County deputy encounters a psychotic, crack-smoking, bipolar man or woman running naked in the streets.

Former King County Sheriff's Deputy Angela Holland.
Judith Eve Lipton
Former King County Sheriff's Deputy Angela Holland.

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And it might just make good cop sense to have a deputy or two who know exactly what's going on with the bipolar subject, know what the monkey on that person's back feels like.

pdawdy@seattleweekly.com 206-467-4384

What Do You Think?

"It'd be interesting to know how much latitude the citizens of King County would want us to grant in such a situation."

—King County Sheriff Susan Rahr in a Seattle Weekly interview

You tell the sheriff: Was firing Deputy Angela Holland the right thing to do or the wrong thing?

E-mail her at kcsheriff@metrokc.gov, and carbon-copy (cc) the message to us at pdawdy@seattleweekly.com.

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