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Seattle P.D. badge from the late 1910s Regular patrolmen in uniform at Seattle Hempfest Seattle policemen in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic A Seattle Police car on patrol near 2nd Ave downtown. The Seattle police force was established in 1869 with the election of John T. Jordan as the first town marshal.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the US state of Washington.. 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.
English: Line graph showing Seattle, Washington population, number of reported crimes, and rate of crimes per 1,000 people from 1985 through 2016. Sources: Crime - Local Level; Single Agency Reported Crime, U.S. Department of Justice, January 26, 2017; Crime Dashboard, Seattle Police Department, February 2017
2023 map of crimes committed in Seattle in each neighborhood. In 2023, Seattle had 5,000 violent crimes, and from 2013 to 2018 there was a slow increase in crimes, however it dipped in 2020, before spiking up again in 2021 and 2022. As of 2023 the city has a violent crime rate of 683 per 100,000 people, and 5,174 property crimes per 100,000 people.
Crime rates in the state of Washington grew rapidly to large levels from 1960 to 1980, however slowed in growth from 1980 onward. [1] Although the cause of this drop in crime growth from the 1980s cannot be directly determined, it was believed to have been a result from several law enforcement initiatives & policies implemented throughout the state of Washington and across the United States ...
The Seattle Police Officers Guild, the police union, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The investigation comes at a turbulent time for the police department.
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019 — the third person the ...
Of the 28 homicides in Seattle in 2008, six occurred in Rainier Valley. [9] In 2006, the Seattle Police Department announced that the South Precinct, which includes Rainier Valley had dropped in crime rate by 8% for the first ten months of 2006. Auto thefts and thefts in general had decreased with robbery and gang activity still highly reported.