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City of Tukwila E-Hazelnut Newsletter May 2017
Summer Housing Information Session for
families in the Tukwila School District
Join us on June 12 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Tukwila
Library to learn about rights and resources as you and your
family prepare for your housing needs at the end of the school
year.
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City Employment Opportunities
KCBA around tenant's rights, the City of Tukwila Human
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TukTV
Tukwila Elected Officials
Mayor:
Allan Ekberg
City Council:
Dennis Robertson (Council
President)
Joe Duffie
Verna Seal
Kathy Hougardy
De'Sean Quinn
Kate Kruller
Thomas McLeod
The truth about the inaccurate "most
dangerous cities" list
Every year a marketing firm working on behalf of the
residential security alarm industry generates an inaccurate
list of the "most dangerous cities" in the United States.
Tukwila consistently makes the list because we have a small
residential population, which is dwarfed by the significant
amount of people who come to Tukwila to work, shop and
play. On average, more than 150,000 people are in Tukwila
every day; less than 20,000 people sleep here every night.
The group that distributes this list uses FBI statistics in a way
that the FBI explicitly says not to do. The FBI statistics cover
all crimes that occur in a city, but this company only applies
it to the number of people who live in the city. If we were to
manipulate other data in the same way this company does,
here's what that would look like:
Meet Apollo, Tukwila's newest narcotics K-
9
Apollo did not come to the Tukwila Police Department
through the normal route that most police K-9's do. Apollo
was abandoned and sent to a shelter within the state. He
stayed at the shelter for six months and was deemed to have
too much energy to be considered for adoption and was about
to be euthanized. Before doing so, the shelter called a
Washington State narcotics K-9 trainer and asked her to take a
look at Apollo to see if he was possibly a candidate for
detection work. The trainer ran Apollo through some drills
and thought he would indeed be a great narcotics K-9. She
took Apollo out of the shelter and put him in her kennels at
the Department of Corrections (DOC).
Unfortunately, Apollo had to wait another 12 months as one
dog after another was selected over him by other officers who
were going through narcotics school and wouldn't give him a
chance. No one would give him a chance simply because he
was a pit bull who often have bad reputations based on
misconceptions and lack of training.
The Tukwila Police Deparment contacted the trainer last
summer while searching for a K-9 and were told about Apollo.
The trainer stated that he was a high drive dog and he would
finish first in narcotics school if someone would give him a
chance.
Tukwila PD decided to give Apollo that chance and are glad
that they did. Apollo finished narcotics school in November of
last year and did indeed finish first in his class. He is
extremely friendly and can often be found trying to get
anyone to play with him. He has brought great joy to
everyone at the department in addition to being a very
productive and hard worker. He is now a part of his handler's
personal family and the family of the Tukwila Police
Department.
Check out the video below of Apollo having some fun with his
youngest fan during the Coffee With A Cop event at Starbucks
in Southcenter Mall: