Seattle Police Contract Passes Despite Limited Accountability Measures, Budget Hit
With a 24% raise and backpay, Seattle police officers are collectively earning an extra $96 million in compensation from the City in 2024. City leaders hope to spur hiring, but the contract did little to increase police accountability and blew a bigger hole in the City's quarter-billion-dollar budget deficit.
Mayor Durkan Pledges to Close the CHOP and Reopen East Precinct, Chastising ‘Agitators’
Mayor Jenny Durkan promised to disperse the Capitol Hill Organized Protest and reinstall police inside East Precinct "in the near future" at a press...
Op-Ed: Walking Away from the Empty Promise of Seattle’s Consent Decree
Seattle is still struggling for justice and constitutional policing 12 years into federal monitoring via the consent decree.
More than 12 years ago, 34 Seattle...
Seattle Police Want to Add StarChase Car Tracking to Technology Arsenal
StarChase consists of GPS tracker launchers attached to police patrol cars that can deploy a GPS tracking tag onto another vehicle. The Seattle Police Department contends that acquiring this technology will help apprehend criminals without dangerous high-speed chases, but critics argue StarChase’s efficacy is low and deployment would expand the scope of warrantless surveillance.
Redmond Public Safety Levy Would Expand Fire and Police Force, but also Mental Health...
With election season already around the corner, cities that want their residents to vote on November ballot measures are moving to finish necessary planning...
Sunday Video: Are Fire Concerns About Point Access (Single-Stair) Buildings Right?
Last year, Uytae Lee of About Here discussed why point access block (single-stair) residential buildings are so good. But a common reaction to the...
Harrell Plans Hasty Rollout of Massive Surveillance Expansion
Mayor Harrell is seeking to quickly roll out gun-shot detectors and closed circuit cameras to feed into real-time crime center software, raising privacy concerns. Claims that this major expansion of the surveillance state will curb serious crime are largely unsubstantiated.
Sunday Video: All The Ways Car Dependency Make Things Worse
Ray Delahanty of CityNerd goes through a litany of reasons why car dependency makes American society worse off from public health and environmental quality...







