Dori: FOX 13 anchor and host David Rose talks crime and new show

“Washington’s Most Wanted” may have retired from TV, but statewide crime and the show’s former executive producer and host David Rose clearly have not.

WMW still posts on social media to catch outlaws. And Rose – who already co-anchors the 5, 6, 10 and 11 p.m. news on FOX 13 – is now focusing on broader crime stories on “The Spotlight.” The new half-hour show premiered at 8 p.m., Sunday, on FOX 13.

After almost 23 years of hosting “Washington’s Most Wanted,” Rose told The Dori Monson Show that the show wasn’t getting as many “requests to do fugitive hunts.”

That’s when producers began asking, “what’s the next thing we can do to tackle some of these bigger crime and public safety issues, … extend the conversation? How do we keep everybody safe?” Rose said. “The Spotlight takes the time to dig into these issues.”

Following the show’s debut, Rose described his interview with state Rep. Jesse Johnson (D-Federal Way). Rep. Johnson, along with Rep. Roger Goodman (D-Kirkland), is behind the new law which limits law enforcement pursuits only to cases involving “reasonable cause,” and not “reasonable suspicion.” Dori and other critics say the law has given criminals the freedom to steal cars and property with little to no consequence.

Democratic lawmakers and police critics say law enforcement professionals are misinterpreting the law’s intent.

“Numerous detectives and police officers on the beat that I’ve talked to say that’s not the case,” Rose told Dori.

Like cops who have talked to Dori, Rose says his contacts tell him: “I’m not going to put my house in jeopardy, my family in jeopardy, my freedom in jeopardy trying to figure out what this law is. … I’m not going to gamble with that.”

And in an interview that caught Rose by surprise, Rep. Johnson told him that, after a ride-along with Bonney Lake police, he saw “first-hand that the pendulum might have swung too far.”

Is there any chance of swinging that pendulum back? Rose wanted to know. Rep. Johnson’s answer: “I hope.”

Meanwhile, Rose told Dori, the TV anchor is not abandoning his work to catch criminals.

“That’s still in my bones,” Rose said.

Listen to Dori’s interview with David Rose, host of “The Spotlight” on FOX 13:

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