SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say 88 people were fatally shot and 372 were wounded by gunfire in King County last year, surpassing 2020’s previous record high of 69 firearm-related homicides and 268 shooting injuries.
The Renton Fire Department was back out at the hotel today responding to a man who barricaded himself in his room after setting off the fire alarm. Fire officials and law enforcement say since the hotel became a shelter, they’ve had to respond frequently. Meanwhile, shelter emplo...
South King County law enforcement addressing rise in violence Law enforcement agencies and government officials met to discuss future approaches for the rise in violence in south King County DES MOINES, WASH. - Local, state and federal law enforcement partners held a meeting to ...
King County’s repeal fit into a broader reexamination of how and whether to enforce certain traffic infractions. Tacoma repealed its helmet law shortly before King County. And in this year’s legislative session, one bill would decriminalize jaywalking and another would depriori...
“In a time of crisis, people are looking for leadership,” Kirkpatricksaid during a news conferenceWednesday, with a crowd of city and law enforcement officials behind her. “You are looking at the leadership.” Before leaving Washington, Kirkpatrick served as King County’s un...
The proposal also emphasized efforts to more formally and consistently engage with marginalized communities, provide more robust training and coordination with law enforcement on investigations of hate crimes, have more time and resources to fully analyze and potentially strengthen referred hate crime ca...
Other law enforcement agencies in Washington state have made the same tough decision to follow the law. They did this to protect their officers from even the threat of decertification. Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney confirmed to the Jason Rantz Show that they’d pull those non-lethal we...
Patti Cole-Tindall (Courtesy of King County) After serving as the interim sheriff since January, the King County Council unanimously voted to confirm Patti Cole-Tindall as the new King County Sheriff on Tuesday, May 24. Cole-Tindall is the first sheriff to be appointed since King County ...
Kingdom City crime rates are not available from the FBI crime report. The FBI's uniform crime reporting program (UCR), gathers data from more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies. The agencies include city, university, college, county, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies. When ...
Google Share on Facebook King, Rodney G. (redirected fromRodney G. King) The 1991 beating of Rodney G. King by Los Angeles, California, police led to state and federal criminal prosecution of the law enforcement officers involved in the assault, a civil jury award of $3.8 million to King...