A court rejected the officer's claim of qualified immunity, the much-debated legal doctrine that can shield police officers ...

The city filed motions in U.S. District Court on Tuesday asking for the end of more than 13 years of federal oversight of the ...

The resolution recognizes the progress the Seattle Police Department has made regarding the consent decree that stemmed from a 2012 lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging a pattern of ...

The federal monitor, appointed after the Department of Justice sued Seattle police in 2012 and the city entered into a consent decree, noted in a May assessment of the department’s progress on ...

When Seattle police Officer Benjamin Kelly confronted and killed fugitive cop-killer Maurice Clemmons on a darkened South Seattle street in 2010, he was hailed as a hero and named Officer of the Year.

As the Seattle Police Department’s attorneys would have her known, Sgt. Ella Elias is a conniving malcontent hoping to be made a millionaire with taxpayer money. Certainly, the department’s ...

Seattle's top cop has been dismissed and reassigned to a new role amid hiring challenges as well as mounting lawsuits against the police department alleging gender and racial discrimination. Mayor ...

Barely 24 hours after publicly announcing his decision to dismiss Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz, Mayor Bruce Harrell defended move for a department plagued by lawsuits and accusations that it ...

The resolution recognizes the progress the Seattle Police Department has made regarding the consent decree that stemmed from a 2012 lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging a pattern of ...