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2 days ago · As a part of the 2023 audit of the Vancouver’s operations, the Office of the Washington State Auditor investigated the police department’s handling of small and attractive assets, which ...
Jun 30, 2021 · From the United States Department of Justice: Seattle – Twelve people are in custody today following a second round of arrests in an investigation involving armed drug trafficking, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. The indictments and arrests today are a follow-up to the April 7, 2021 takedown involving 24 defendants. Most of those […]
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May 18, 2021 · Calling it a "moral mandate," Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed a dozen bills into law on Tuesday that backers hope will improve policing in the state, reduce the use of deadly force ...
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 260 law enforcement agencies employing 11,411 sworn police officers, about 174 for each 100,000 residents. The state has the lowest ratio of police officers to residents of any state, compared to a national average of 251 per 100,000 residents.
Nov 26, 2021 · Aside from a state law passed earlier this year to improve Washington’s civil protection order system, which specified that law enforcement officers can’t engage in consensual sex with a “person incarcerated or detained,” state law is silent on the issue of police officers and sexual consent. State law does not address scenarios in which officers coerce a person into sex without ...
Jul 28, 2021 · Members of the Seattle Police Department make their way to respond to protests in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, July 25, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) Several new police accountability bills went into effect in Washington state this week, changing some of the ways police officers can interact with the public.
Feb 26, 2021 · Published 10:04 AM PDT, February 26, 2021. OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A contentious bill that passed the state Senate late Thursday could transform Washington’s police oversight agency from an anemic watchdog into a formidable instrument for police accountability. While other reform efforts in Olympia focus on high-profile police tactics, such ...
