13 News obtained 42 exit interviews of officers between January 2018 to February 2019. Some left for retirement, but others highlighted other officers leaving for various different agencies.
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Police: Grandmother accused of leaving naked child in hot car for over an hour
A South Carolina grandmother is facing charges after police say she left her 3-year-old granddaughter in a hot car for over an hour. Pamela Lawson was arrested Saturday in Charleston after police ...
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Police: Man causes $40K in damage to parking lot with stolen excavator
Salt Lake City Police Department said in a news release that the excavator had been left running at a job site in the city, and that the suspect, identified as Omar Ortega, jumped into the vehicle ...
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Rantz: Man unloads as Seattle Parking Enforcement tickets neighbors, but ignores homeless RVs
Instead of dealing with an RV homeless encampment a block away, an officer is ticketing residents who struggle to find parking in their neighborhood.
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Anchorage police officers violated policy in traffic stop where woman used ‘white privilege card,’ deputy chief says
Police did not provide details about what, if any, repercussions officers Nicholas Bowe and Charles Worland faced as a result of the incident, which drew outcry from community members.
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Feds charge 4 police officers in fatal Breonna Taylor raid
(AP) — The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the ... The Justice Department is also conducting a non-criminal investigation ...
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Sheriffs blame WA lawmakers for increase in crime, loss of officers statewide
SEATTLE - Two prominent sheriffs in Washington blame state lawmakers for the increase in crime and the dwindling number of police officers to handle it. Last week, the Washington Association of ...
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‘It’s OK to say we’re funding the police’: Mayor Harrell is correct, and the city council should pass his hiring package
For almost a year, the Seattle Mayor ... this impasse continues, the department shrinks as more officers leave, more people become victims of violent crime and police take longer to respond ...
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Man killed in Seattle road rage shooting, police say
Officers received a report at 10:13 a.m. about a man who had been shot in the 4400 block of Fourth Avenue South, the Seattle Police Department ... able to say why the man wasn’t arrested ...
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Effectiveness of Small Police Departments
Including police and fire departments. Right now the Seattle Police Department ... departments make sense. Why? Critics say these agencies, with fewer than 10 officers, often lack training ...
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Seattle police arrest man who claimed he wanted ‘to kill as many people as he could’
A 22-year-old man was arrested Friday, claiming he wanted “to kill as many people as he could,” according to the Seattle Police Department ... When arriving officers and arrested the man and read him ...
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Seattle's plan to hire 500 police officers
Two years ago, the conversation in Seattle was all about ... to put millions into hiring 500 new police officers. KUOW reporter Amy Radil explains why the department has such a labor shortage ...
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Seattle’s arrest alternative, LEAD, moves beyond police
Instead of arresting the person, why not offer ... LEAD directly by police officers. Even if an officer does not make the initial contact, someone within the Seattle Police Department must sign ...