Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city of Seattle has filed for federal court approval to terminate the consent decree ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is asking the Department of Justice to end federal oversight of the city's police department more ...

Mayor Harrell files for court approval to terminate the Seattle police consent decree and revise crowd management policies.

Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) recently expanded and its crisis responders are now operating in the North Precinct. These social workers get dispatched alongside Seattle police ...

In the wake of 2020’s anti-police protests, members of the public have pressed Seattle officials to launch more types of crisis response that is not affiliated with law enforcement.

911 calls in Seattle could soon be answered by unarmed "crisis responders" instead of police officers through a new "alternate response team" spearheaded by a Democratic council member ...

SEATTLE (KOMO) — A team of mental health professionals will now be responding along with police and firefighters to calls of people who are in crisis in Seattle. The Community Assisted Response ...

Seattle has filed to end a federal consent decree imposed on the city's police department following a 2012 investigation that ...

The Community Assisted Response and Engagement, commonly called CARE, department was born out of the protests of 2020 and demands for first responders who don’t carry a gun and a badge.

In 2020, protests following the police murder of George Floyd started a movement to defund police departments across the U.S. – including Seattle. Four years later, what, if anything, has changed?

SEATTLE — 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 like drug addictions. Community Assisted Response and ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to quadruple the size of Seattle's official police alternative and make an additional 18 people available to respond to 911 calls that may ...