The Seattle City Council voted to approve legislation that sets ground rules on crowd management for the police department.

A new team is in place in north Seattle to help people on the streets who are homeless, in crisis, or need help with issues ...

A 20-year veteran Seattle police lieutenant claims in a lawsuit that he was the target of discrimination and retaliation by ...

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) believes two men arrested Thursday night in South Seattle are responsible for stealing more than $50,000 in merchandise from retailers in Seattle, Bellevue ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's goal of 1,450 fully trained and deployable police officers is showing signs of progress as recent recruitment efforts begin to pay off. The department ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Police are celebrating a boost in hiring and a surge in applications for open positions. The department brought in 84 recruits in 2024, the highest number since 2019.

A Seattle City Council committee approved the use of a limited number of so-called “less lethal” weapons by the Seattle Police Department, deployed primarily to control crowd movement during ...

The Seattle Police Department may only have hired one more officer last year than it lost, but as 2025 opens, the Southwest Precinct has two new officers. POLICE AND CRIME: The local precinct was ...

Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee took up a new controversial series of amendments to allow the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to once again use blast balls to help them control ...

SEATTLE, Wash. - The Seattle Police Department is making strides in rebuilding its ranks after several challenging years. In 2024, the department achieved a major milestone, hiring 84 new officers—a ...

SEATTLE — Seattle police seized nearly $2,000 and over eight grams of fentanyl during two separate arrests in the Chinatown-International District earlier this month. Police said they spotted ...

Seattle’s Community Police Commission was created as part of the city’s 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, after federal officials found a pattern of unconstitutional ...