At the end of 2012, King County will stop accepting small-time crooks

At the end of 2012, King County will stop accepting small-time crooks who reside in Seattle at its downtown jail. That is also the year that Governor Christine Gregoire has promised to tear down the Alaskan Way Viaduct, West Seattleites’ main high-speed artery to the mainland. But fear not, West Siders: your (my) ‘hood features two of the four proposed sites for the city to build its own jail for misdemeanor offenders. Lose a highway, gain a dormitory full of ne’er-do-wells — it all works out in the end, doesn’t it?