TheSeattle City Councilis working to finalize new policies for how police in Seattle can use crowd control weapons like gas and blast balls. The new rules would replace restrictions put in place after theSeattle Police Department’sflawed response to the 2020 protests. The council’s public safet...
but it is anything but. U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the Seattle Police Department, have participated in exchanges with the Israeli Defense Force, training with them on policies such
Andrew Myerberg, the OPA director,ultimately concludedthat the FBI documents “suggested that there could have been violations” of state law and city policies by SPD employees, but “given the dearth of information actually provided” they couldn’t be sure. Advertising Skip Ad ...
chair of the Council's Public Safety Committee, claims that the aggressive and "idiotic" arrest of one of the protest marchers may have actually incited later acts of violence and vandalism by some of the demonstrators. The Seattle Police Department has...
“The ability to sustain the good work that has begun is not a foregone conclusion,” the judge added. “It will require dedication, hard work, creativity, flexibility, vigilance, endurance, and continued development and refinement of policies and procedures in accordance with con...
“Following the most widespread civil unrest Seattle has seen in decades, Petitioners submitted, and the trial court approved, a charge that Mayor Durkan ‘failed to institute new policies and safety measures for the Seattle Police Department’ with regard to the use of chemical crowd control meas...
Seattle is not alone in hiring DACA recipients for police positions. Earlier in the year, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) made the same move. They even altered its written firearms policy to allow DACA cops to carry a firearm while off-duty. ...
SEATTLE - Police arrested a man after he fired several shots into a neighbor’s apartment in Seattle’s Yesler Terrace Neighborhood on Friday. According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), at around 1:15 p.m., someone called 911 saying that a bullet came through the door ...
guidance and leadership in matters related to police accountability for the Seattle Police Department ("SPD" or "Department"). OPA's role is to help ensure the actions of SPD employees are Constitutional, incompliance with federal, state and local laws, and City and SPD policies; respectful and...
Businesses in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood report insurance providers are increasing rates, and in some cases, even refusing to issue policies altogether. June 18, 2024 5:56pm PDT How to score last-minute tickets to The Rolling Stones' Seattle concert, plus more details ...