Police

Anti-police protesters awarded $680,000 after SPD arrests labeled 'retaliatory'

Four protesters arrested for writing anti-police graffiti outside the Seattle Police precinct at the center of the Black Lives Matter protest have been awarded $680,000 by a federal jury.

‘I am a gay Latino man,’ says former Seattle Chief Adrian Diaz after stepping down

King County prosecutors have notified schools of 69 felony gun charges against students

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has started notifying schools when students are charged with felonies involving guns. The Safer Schools Strategy began this school year, partly in response to campus shootings.

Despite threats of removal, asylum-seekers in Kent remain at camp next to empty hotel

For now, asylum-seekers camping out in front of a vacant county-owned hotel in the city of Kent are not going to be relocated.

Demotion costs Seattle’s ex-police chief his title at national police org

Mayor Bruce Harrell made the change, citing a “distracting” amount of litigation by SPD officers and the need for an outside investigation to proceed unimpeded. Now, Diaz has lost another title as well.

'This is how we get better.' Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell defends his decision to dismiss Police Chief Adrian Diaz

Barely 24 after publicly announcing his decision to dismiss Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz, Mayor Bruce Harrell spoke to Soundside's Libby Denkmann about why that was the right move for a department plagued by lawsuits and accusations that it was a "good old boys' club."

Assistant chief with Seattle Police put on leave, reasons unclear

Updated 4:15 p.m. on 5/24/2024.

‘It was David and Goliath.’ Eyewitness describes shooting in murder trial of Auburn police officer