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Police and Public Safety

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How Do Private Security Patrols In Seattle Neighborhoods Affect Livability?

In December 2015, a team of private security guards from Central Protection began making six-hour patrols around the Magnolia residential area. In February 2016,...

North Precinct Goes Before The City Council

On Wednesday, the Seattle City Council's Gender Equity, Safe Communities, and New Americans Committee heard from Seattle Police Department (SPD) and staff from other...

Police Shootings And The Livability Agenda

On Wednesday evening, Philando Castile's life ended in his car as he bled out from five bullet wounds still buckled in his seat following...

New North Precinct Building: $160 Million, 70% Parking, 88% Staffed With Suburbanites

The Seattle police are in the news again. This time for a lavish new $160 million North Precinct building that The Seattle Times' Brier...