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Chief Operating Office Brian Maxey admits there was plenty of initial skepticism and criticism from the rank and file, especially regarding the emphasis on so-called “de-escalation.” “It doesn’t mean that you’re not ever going to go hands on with...

The Police Department “firmly believes that video is a useful tool for capturing what did happen, or what did not happen, regardless of what an officer may have perceived at the time, and that review of that piece of...

Brian Maxey is the chief operating officer for the Seattle Police Department. He said after five years, Seattle is in the home stretch on meeting the goals of its consent decree, so he doesn’t see the need for any...

Not every concern of the community group was discussed, but of those that were, Harrell had an answer. On privacy, he suggested the questions are really the same as police notes, photography and dash cameras, but in a different...

“It’s something we’ve grappled with a lot in the last couple months,” said SPD Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxey. “Here in Seattle we have high community expectations. When they call 911 they want a police officer to show up.”...

Since a 2012 consent decree with the US Department of Justice Seattle police have been working on use of force and bias policing.  Recently the feds, even the president recognized the progress Seattle has made. Seattle police say they...

Four years into its reform, the Seattle Police Department has developed a new policy on use of force. The department also devised a new training procedure that focuses on teaching officers how to avoid using force if at all...

That same month, the Seattle Police Department released video of an officer shooting a knife-wielding suspect. The department policy since mid-2014 has been to release any “objective” evidence involving a major police-involved incident, said Brian Maxey, the department’s chief...