Your favorite parts of an interview don’t always make the final story.
I spent an hour and a half on Tuesday with Everett’s new police chief, Kathy Atwood. My story about her rise through the ranks and her plans for the department’s future is scheduled to run Monday.
Here’s one of my favorite parts that didn’t make the story.
I asked her about the case she is most proud of, or her best arrest.
It was in the early 1990s.
She was a special operations bicycle cop in north Everett. An elderly woman was burglarized and sexually assaulted before the bad guys fled in the victim’s car.
“It really was a brutal thing,” Atwood said.
Atwood made a grid of north Everett and spent a shift checking every street and alley for the stolen car.
Driving back to the station on California Street, she spotted it. The suspects were inside.
She called it in, and police began a pursuit through downtown. The suspects ditched the car but were tackled by officers and booked.
They were prosecuted long ago, but their names still come up when Everett cops remember “notorious bad guys,” she said.
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