“We want Seattle to be the thriving Emerald City.” Harrell said he believed the arrival of Seattle Police Chief nominee Shon Barnes in the coming weeks would help shift the department’s ...

Police in Seattle believe two men are responsible for a ring of retail theft that led to more than $50,000 in merchandise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’s Community Police Commission was created as part of the city’s 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, after federal officials found a pattern of unconstitutional ...