Seattle's interim police chief addressed the public on Tuesday, offering details of the departments recent accomplishments and pitfalls.
On Tuesday, Interim Seattle Police Chief Sue Rahr headed to the city council's public safety committee for the first time in her new position to give a wide-ranging update on public safety following her first 60 days at the helm of the Seattle Police Department.Throughout the presentation, the interim chief laid out several data points to sum up her first 60 days, including the following graphic which shows there have been more shots fired year-to-date in 2024 than in the previous two years.
As for staffing, the department trails behind their earlier goals--calling the situation a "crisis."While Seattle Police had set out to hire 65 officers in the second quarter, the actual number has landed at just 21 hires. A graph shows a previous high of 1,339 fully trained officers in early 2020. Since then, the department has steadily decreased. Right now, they report 979 fully trained officers.
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