As required by the City of Seattle, the SPD recently published its first biannual report relating to marijuana enforcement. The report is designed to provide another level of oversight for marijuana enforcement in our city and flag anomalies or outliers in enforcement. 
 
 When reviewing data captured for this report, SPD staff discovered that 66 of 83, or approximately 80%, of marijuana tickets were issued by one officer. In some instances, the officer added notes to the tickets. Some notes requested the attention of City Attorney Peter Holmes and were addressed to “Petey Holmes.” In another instance, the officer indicated he flipped a coin when contemplating which subject to cite. In another note, the officer refers to Washington’s voter-enacted changes to marijuana laws as “silly.” 
 
 The officer’s actions have been reported to OPA and he will not perform patrol duties during the course of the investigation. 
 
 Please know that officers who perform professional and constitutional police service and enforcement will always have my full support. ||||| SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer has been reassigned after a review found he wrote about 80 percent of marijuana tickets issued in the city during the first half of 2014. 
 
 Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole said Wednesday on the department website that the unidentified officer issued 66 of 83 citations for public pot use in Seattle. 
 
 She says that in some cases he added notes to the tickets or addressed them to Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes. In another case, the officer reportedly said he flipped a coin when deciding which person to cite. 
 
 O'Toole says the officer also wrote that the voter-approved state initiative legalizing recreational marijuana was "silly." 
 
 The police chief said the case has been referred to the department's Office of Professional Accountability. She says the officer won't be on patrol duties during the investigation.
– Pot makes some people paranoid, but Seattle residents weren't imagining that one particular cop was handing out more than his fair share of marijuana citations. A notice posted by the chief of police on the police department's website yesterday said an officer was reassigned after an internal review discovered he had penned 66 out of 83 of the city's toking-in-public tickets in the first half of 2014, reports the AP. The department also recently revealed that homeless constituents received about 46% of public pot use tickets, while African-Americans received 36%, even though they only constitute 8% of the city's population, according to KOMO News. The unnamed officer occasionally added his own personal statements to his tickets, noting that Washington's legalization law was "silly" and even admitting that he flipped a coin on at least one occasion to figure out which citizen to crack down on for cannabis use—adults are allowed to partake recreationally in the state, but not out in the open. Some of the officer's notes were made out to "Petey Holmes," a reference to City Attorney Peter Holmes, who also happens to be a legalization advocate, notes KOMO. "I am personally very sorry that apparently a significant number of homeless individuals were inconvenienced by an officer's apparent attempt to get at me," Holmes said in a statement last night.