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seattle.gov /police. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is responsible for the whole city except for the campus of the University of Washington (which is under the university's police department). Law enforcement in Seattle began with the election of ...
Adrian Z. Diaz is an American law enforcement officer who served as the chief of the Seattle Police Department from 2020 to 2024. Diaz had previously served as deputy chief of the department. Diaz assumed office in an acting capacity on September 2, 2020, following the resignation of Carmen Best. [1][2][3] On September 20, 2022, Diaz was ...
According to the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE): "Sometimes referred to as citizen oversight, civilian review, external review and citizen review boards (Walker 2001; Alpert et al. 2016), this form of police accountability is often focused on allowing non-police actors to provide input into the police department’s operations, often with a focus on the ...
Diaz pointed out that he helped navigate the department through the final stages of federal oversight ordered by the court in 2012 after police shot and killed John Williams in 2010. Most of the ...
May 31, 2024 at 9:21 AM. Seattle’s embattled police chief has been removed from his post, Mayor Bruce Harrell said Wednesday, just days after an assistant police chief was placed on leave and ...
September 24, 2024 at 3:25 PM. SEATTLE - Seattle City Council is considering new ordinances to step up video surveillance, with the promise of targeting gun violence and human trafficking in high ...
Adrian Diaz. Personal details. Born. c. 1965 (age 58–59) [1] Tacoma, Washington, U.S. Education. Northeastern University (MS) Carmen Best (born c. 1965) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the chief of police of the Seattle Police Department from 2018 to 2020. She was the first black woman to lead Seattle's police force.
The Seattle Police Officers Guild said Friday that there is “much more detail and nuance” to bodycam footage released this week that captures one of its leaders saying the life of a woman who ...