The police department offers interactive crime mapping in two categories; calls for service and crime data.You can look for specific types of crime in a certain neighborhood. For example, you might want to know about robberies in a two-mile radius of your hotel in the past month. ...
The mayor has focused on other issues involving SPD — staffing shortages, the federal consent decree, union negotiations and “answering communities’ calls for a more just and equitable approach to policing and the police department’s budget,” said the spokesperson, Anthony ...
CAHOOTS responds to roughly 20% of all 911 calls for service. In 2019, it responded to 24,000 total calls, just 150 of which required police assistance. Over 60% of the people CAHOOTS has served are homeless. According to the program’s own estimates, it has saved Eugene $8.5 million i...
The Seattle Police Department, via a spokesperson, did not deny the memo caused a stir for staff. Instead, the spokesperson said in a statement that the department is committed to hiring staff that represents “the full diversity of our city.” ...
Riders and CHS readers noted large orange steel panels placed at platforms at the route when the line began its first service last month. It turns out, theSeattle Department of Transportationplaced the segments to raise buses the less than an inch required for the RapidRide wheelchair ramps to...
Harrell said at a news conference that he met with Adrian Diaz on Tuesday and they agreed Diaz should step down. He will work on special assignments for the mayor with the police department, Harrell said. Diaz’s departure comes about a week after police Capt. Eric Greening filed a la...
Renton police responded to 60 911 calls at the hotel in the first month the DESC clients were there, while during the same month last year Seattle police responded to 105 at the downtown shelter. Of course, for Renton’s smaller police department, 60 calls for...
Several hundred demonstrators, led by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, occupied City Hall downtown Tuesday night for just over an hour, calling for the resignation of Mayor Jenny Durkan and the defunding of the Seattle Police Department after a
“We saw a lot of so-called perpetrators in our courtroom that looked a hell of a lot like victims themselves,” Holmes said. When cops go after women who solicit on the street, rather than online or through an escort service, “you’re going to sweep up the most desperate people, ...
Barton says from day one of the Red Lion Inn being transformed into a homeless shelter, there’s been regular calls for service. Barton says exit doors have been chained up and fire alarms set off regularly. She says it really all boils down to code issues that stem ...