Inside Opinion » Zina Linnik http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:45:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Honesty took a nap after Zina Linnik’s murder http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2011/04/23/honesty-took-a-nap-after-zina-linniks-murder/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2011/04/23/honesty-took-a-nap-after-zina-linniks-murder/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:06:04 +0000 Patrick O'Callahan http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/?p=12321 This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition.

Almost four years after the fact, the public has learned why the Tacoma Police Department took so long to put out an Amber Alert for a missing and murdered Tacoma girl: The officer asked to do it fell asleep.

The outrage isn’t the 12 hours it took to issue the alert after 12-year-old Zina Linnik was abducted on July 4, 2007. It’s the more than three years the police department took to acknowledge what happened – a coverup that deliberately misled the public and is still being soft-pedaled by City Manager Eric …

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