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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 ...
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.
The city filed motions in U.S. District Court on Tuesday asking for the end of more than 13 years of federal oversight of the ...
Seattle entered a settlement agreement in 2012 with the U.S. Department of Justice following an investigation that estimated ...
Seattle police were placed under a consent decree in 2012 after an 11-month Justice Department investigation found routine use of excessive force and civil rights violations. The department must ...
Jon Ehrenfeld, who oversees the Health One program at the Seattle Fire Department, says each type of crisis response fills a need, from police to fire to social workers.
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?
Although Seattle has a slate of organizations that frequently interface with people in crisis or struggling with addiction, the CARE department is the first to be directly hitched to the city's ...
Seattle councilwoman Lisa Herbold announced the launching of new pilot program for unarmed crisis responders to be dispatched in the place of police officers.
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 ...
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.