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Seattle pays convicted pimp $150,000 to be its 'Street Czar' and come up with 'alternatives to policing' as he boasts he can talk to 'gangsters and prostitutes who won't sit down with anybody else'
- Andrè Taylor signed a $12,500 a month deal with the city on July 27 to work as its community liaison, according to the contract published by PubliCola last week
- Taylor said he can talk to 'gang members, pimps and prostitutes who won't sit down with anybody else'
- His nonprofit Not This Time will provide recommendations to the city on de-escalation, community engagement and alternatives to policing
- Mayor Jenny Durkan's office said the partnership would 'help de-escalate the ongoing situation' by tapping into Taylor's 'lived experience'
- In 2016, Taylor vowed to 'go to war' with Seattle after his brother Che Taylor was shot dead by cops
- Taylor then set up Not This Time which champions statewide police reforms
- This year he emerged as an ally to Mayor Durkan speaking out against the controversial CHOP zone where two people were shot dead
- He was then exposed in a secret recording offering to negotiate a million-dollar package with the city on behalf of CHOP occupiers in exchange for them leaving
- Back in 2000, Taylor was convicted of seven prostitution-related counts