<p>a former Seattle police detective recently pleaded not guilty for the highest measured alcohol blood rate in state history</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe how some of these people can sit upright, let alone drive.
There has to be long standing alcohol abuse.
Her blood alcohol content was 6 times the legal limit.
<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/312834_drunk24.html%5B/url%5D">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/312834_drunk24.html</a></p>
<p>He has only been there a little over a year-
I know that screenings sometimes seem cursory.
For instance when Seattle was hiring a superintendent a few years ago- we had three final candidates who made it past all the prescreenings by the executive search firm.
However, this search firm apparently just checked police records and read their resumes ( often things don't show up in recommendations).</p>
<p>When the community however, began googling the names, and found that they were * paid* to leave their previous positions or otherwise left "under a cloud", they dropped out , one by one, after their past hit the front page.
The district then decided to hire the interim superintendent as supe.</p>