The department, which has faced a significant exodus of officers in recent years, hired 84 new recruits in 2024.

SEATTLE, Wash. - The Seattle Police Department is making strides in rebuilding its ranks after several challenging years. In ...

The use of blast balls, tear gas and pepper spray has been contentious, the debate picking up steam after the 2020 protests.

A bill, which would incorporate Seattle police's use of less-lethal weapons into the city code, will now go to the full city ...

A Seattle City Council committee approved the use of a limited number of so-called “less lethal” weapons by the Seattle Police Department, deployed primarily to control crowd movement during ...

Hiring has been a major priority for the department, after dealing with critical shortages the past few years.

SEATTLE — It's one thing to hear that more police officers are joining Seattle police than are leaving the department, and another to see it. For the first time, KOMO News cameras were welcomed ...

The Seattle Police Department is cracking down on drug dealing in the city’s Chinatown-International District. On Jan. 6, bike officers with the Seattle Police Department arrested two men after ...

An image of drugs and money that Seattle Police Department officers seized during two separate narcotics operations on Jan. 6 and Jan. 11 in the Chinatown-International District. (Courtesy ...

Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee took up a new controversial series of amendments to allow the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to once again use blast balls to help them control ...