The Wheel Deal
The Seattle Weekly's Caleb Hannan asks: "How do Seattle Police Protect Mayor-Elect Mike "the Bike" McGinn?"
Good question, Caleb. I wrote about that very same topic here during the campaign after McGinn got into a debate with an officer assigned to Mayor Greg Nickels' security detail about this same issue:
The story goes like this: McGinn struck up a conversation with one of the police officers assigned to the mayor's security detail at a campaign event during the primary. According to Seattle Police Officers' Guild president Rich O'Neill—who heard about the exchange directly from the officer, who declined to discuss the incident with The Stranger—McGinn told the officer that when he was mayor, there would "be some big changes" around the office. "That'll be gone," McGinn told the officer, pointing to the Toyota Highlander SUV used by Mayor Greg Nickels. "When I'm mayor, my security detail will bike with me."
According Caleb's report, McGinn staffer Aaron Pickus says the Mayor-Elect "has executive protection now," . But as to what kind (cops in cars, bikes, scooters?) Pickus won't say. Adding only, "and he still rides his bike."