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A former Everett Police bicycle cop has been hired to oversee work crews under the City of Everett Streets Initiative program. As an alternative to prosecution, low-level offenders will pick up garbage, sweep streets, return grocery carts and clean up areas affected by street crime. Safe Streets Work Crews will be supervised while cleaning up […]

Work crews as an alternative to jailing those who’ve been arrested for minor crimes in Everett took another step forward Wednesday night. The Everett City Council got a briefing on a proposal for the city to enter into an agreement with Friendship Diversion Services to manage a work crew program for people arrested for things […]