SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department (SPD) said comparatively low wages have hurt recruiting efforts, and worked against a program to offer $30,000 bonuses to attract officers. In a ...

SEATTLE — The city of Seattle pays the salary for a man who works full time as the leader of the police union.

After years of waiting, a tentative agreement between the city of Seattle and the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) could soon be voted on.

The Seattle City Council voted Monday to move forward with a controversial proposal that would begin the process of defunding the police department.

Protestors gather outside city hall for Monday's Seattle City Council budget committee voting, which includes potential Seattle Police Department cuts, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Erika Schultz/The ...

The Seattle City Council has voted to cut SPD staffing and salaries. They say they’re making these changes in response to weeks of protests against systemic racism and police brutality.

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 ...

Carmen Best, the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department, announced her retirement Tuesday after the City Council voted to cut her salary and that of her command staff while ...

Seattle must become even more creative in marketing the police department to bring the numbers up to where they will impact quicker police response.

In exclusively obtained Seattle Police Department (SPD) exit interviews, departing officers doubled down on the well-documented pressures the department is facing both internally and externally ...

The city of Seattle will pay nearly $1 million to a Black police captain to settle a lawsuit in which he alleged that the city’s police chief demoted him for reporting racism and discrimination ...