The Seattle Police Department has nearly two dozen budgeted ... “hiring quite a few fewer recruits than planned,” and the “challenge will be that because it takes a year to get an officer ...

The Seattle Police Department’s recent decision to ... Given the city’s overall revenue challenges, it seemed appropriate to make this decision.” Though eliminating the mounted unit will ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department said Monday that it ... despite an increase in base pay and $30,000 signing bonuses. “The challenge is the recruitment piece,” said Council Public ...

whose complaints about violent and biased policing in Seattle helped bring about a decade of federal police oversight, sees little to celebrate in the proposed end of the 2012 settlement agreement ...

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) welcomed its new chief on Thursday. KING 5 spoke with Chief Shon Barnes about his new role joining a department struggling with understaffing and a slew of ...

Last weekend, nude sunbathers in Seattle — where public nudity has been officially legal since 1990 — looked up from the lawn ...

Seattle Public Schools put a moratorium on police in schools in 2020. It is working with police to bring a "school engagement ...

Seattle's top cop has been dismissed and reassigned to a new role amid hiring challenges as well as mounting lawsuits against the police department alleging gender and racial discrimination.