Seattle prosecutors may not be the best, but they also get nothing to work with. When the police decide to show up 8 hours after a crime occurs because they were dragging their feet in protest, or they don't have video evidence because their body cams were turned off, is it any surprise that there is not enough evidence to charge a criminal?

Collecting evidence is the primary responsibility of the police, and prosecutors declining to prosecute a criminal for lack of evidence is a failing of the police, not the prosecutor. Unfortunately, given the abundance of evidence against criminal cops, they still don't prosecute them, so maybe the culpability is shared to some degree.

https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-officers-used-excess...