The Seattle Police Department is seeing recruitment efforts improve as it hired 500% more officers in the first four months ...

Demanding $3 million from the city, Jamie Tompkins says her experience at the Seattle Police Department left her feeling ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department (SPD) has seen its hirings and applications increase significantly this year, Mayor Bruce Harrell said Monday. Harrell and police Chief Shon Barnes said ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell took a victory lap on Monday, celebrating a surge in recruitment applications to the police department. He said the city has hired or re-hired 60 new officers ...

(The Center Square) – The Seattle Police Department is seeing recruitment efforts improve as it hired 500% more officers in the first four months of 2025 than the same time span last year.

The Seattle Police Department has added 60 new police officers this year but it still has 260 openings after many officer retired or left since 2020.

SEATTLE — Seattle’s police chief believes the department can be at full strength ... Seattle Deputy Chief Yvonne Underwood has been leading the recruiting effort and said a lot of factors ...

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes and Mayor Bruce Harrell say SPD officer recruitment is finally improving ... safer and improves morale within the department. But, Barnes says none of that ...

(The Center Square) – The President of the Seattle Police Officers Guild says recent reports ... As reported by The Center Square, recent hires outpace the department’s first-quarter recruitment ...

(The Center Square) – The President of the Seattle Police Officers Guild ... recent hires outpace the department’s first-quarter recruitment totals from the past three years combined.

Trump claimed police recruiting is booming, despite overwhelming evidence that U.S. departments are still grappling with severe staffing shortages.