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Higher salaries? Subsidized housing? What will it take for Seattle to recruit and retain more police?

Facing staffing shortages, Seattle Police gave an update on officer recruitment and retention to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. SPD says they’ve lost hundreds of officers in recent years despite extensive recruiting and advertising.
- Casey Martin
After a protest at City Hall, asylum-seekers in Seattle wonder what's next

A dramatic scene unfolded at Seattle City Hall earlier this week as several protesters were arrested for disrupting a city council meeting on Tuesday. The protesters came to demand more support for hundreds of asylum-seekers from countries including Venezuela, Angola and Congo who have been sheltering at a Tukwila church and elsewhere in King County.
- Libby Denkmann
6 protesters arrested after descending on Seattle City Hall to demand support for refugees
- Isolde Raftery
9 points from Seattle Mayor Harrell’s 2024 state of the city speech

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell gave his annual "State of the City" address Tuesday, leaning into the setting at the Museum of History and Industry to play up the progress he argues his administration has been making over his first two years.
- David Hyde
Seattle has a new City Council. What will change in a year?
- Dyer Oxley
Week in Review: Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson, Boeing, and Republican-backed initiatives

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Channel’s Brian Callanan, political analyst Joni Balter, and KUOW’s David Hyde.
- Kevin Kniestedt
Seattle’s newest City Council member

The city has a full slate of Councilmembers once again. Tanya Woo was appoin
- Caroline Chamberlain Gomez
Taxes and Tanya Woo: Seattle's newest councilmember enters the job

Woo told KUOW's Libby Denkmann she is open to progressive revenue options but that imposing additional taxes "should be a last resort."
- Jason Burrows
Seattle Council picks CID activist Tanya Woo to fill open seat
- David Hyde
From 'unreasonable scrutiny' to hope: Why Seattle's police union president is optimistic

The Seattle Police Officers Guild has hope that things will get better around town for the first time in a long time. Why? There's a new City Council at City Hall.
- Dyer Oxley

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