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Responding to a federal monitor’s report that the Seattle Police Department has yet to comply with court-ordered reforms, Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole has sent an email to her officers praising them for their “real, measurable success.” O’Toole also attached...

“What we’re finding out is that with the 10,000 contacts we have with people in severe crisis every year, officers are only using force 1.6 percent of the time. That is remarkably low because this is the most volatile...

In the nearly 18 months before Charleena Lyles was fatally shot by two Seattle police officers, police responded to her apartment at Brettler Family Homes 23 times, a number that represents almost 30 percent of all calls for service...

In approving the overall plan, U.S. District Judge James Robart, as part of an order filed Wednesday, found that officers may watch video from body cameras before they write reports on incidents involving lower-level use of force. “The department...

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.”...