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SPD has hired 60 officers as of mid-April, compared to 10 hired by April 2024.
The Seattle Police Department is seeing recruitment efforts improve as it hired 500% more officers in the first four months ...
Seattle has added 60 new police officers this year. It still has 260 openings after many officer retired or left since 2020.
The officers, who have been with the department for years, said they have faced racism and retaliation on the job.
Two rank-and-file Seattle police officers have filed civil suits against the department for alleged pervasive anti-Black ...
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which ...
Harrell and police Chief Shon Barnes said at a police training facility Monday that SPD has hired 60 officers as of mid-April ...
A 49-year-old man is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle while riding a scooter in downtown Seattle early ...
Seattle's police chief believes the department can be at full strength in a year or two based on new hiring numbers and ...
A 38-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing two people in downtown Seattle on Friday night, according to the ...
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) has issued a missing person alert for a 14-year-old girl named Maryam, SPD posted on X.
The Seattle Police Department says the death of 12-year-old Arsema Barekew who was hit and killed by a runaway SUV outside her Washington Middle School in March was a terrible accident and not a ...