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Seattle mayor authorizes three new camera areas after audit findings

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Mayor Katie Wilson authorized the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to expand its police closed-circuit television (CCTV) network into three more neighborhoods, while promising new safeguards intended to keep the footage away from federal immigration enforcement. 

CID residents share concerns with Seattle police at community forum

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Seattle police made 214 arrests during a recently completed 90-day emphasis patrol around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street, a department lieutenant told more than 60 people at an Oct. 14 Chinatown-International District (CID) community safety meeting.

South Seattle residents tell city what they value in next police chief 

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About 75 people gathered on Sept. 26 at the Van Asselt Community Center gym for the first of three public listening sessions intended to guide the city of Seattle’s search for its next police chief. 

“A slippery slope”: Advocates tour Real-Time Crime Center, highlight substantiated concerns with Axon surveillance cameras

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Advocates toured the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) on the morning of Aug. 17 to understand how the surveillance cameras located around the city worked and how the data these cameras collect is stored and used.

Community gathers at Seattle Center to mourn three killed in Bite of Seattle shooting

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Hundreds of mourners gathered under a darkening, blue sky at Seattle Center’s International Fountain on July 27 to grieve three people killed and at least seven others wounded in a shooting during the final hours of the Bite of Seattle festival.