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Calls to 'Defund SPD' started one year ago: so how’s that going?

In response to city-wide protests following George Floyd’s murder, the Seattle City Council vowed to chop the city's police department budget in half. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm spoke with Seattle Times reporter Daniel Beekman about what's changed with policing in Seattle ... and what hasn't.
- Kim Malcolm
The murder of George Floyd and the movement that lives on in Seattle one year later

As the world marks one year since George Floyd's murder, Seattle is preparing for another anniversary: the creation of the CHOP, or the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. Through both events, a familiar voice in the Black community and Seattle Black media emerged as a trusted guide to people around the globe.
- Katie Campbell
Who made the call to leave East Precinct last summer?

Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best gave an unprecedented account of the events that unfolded last June during the protests for civil rights on Capitol Hill.
- Amy Radil
American Cops Are Under Pressure To Rely Less On Guns And Take More Personal Risk

Some blame the U.S.'s high rate of police shootings on racism or militarism. But another theory says there's a simpler problem: American police aren't taught how to grapple with armed suspects.
- Martin Kaste
Flanked by families, Inslee signs a dozen police reform bills into law

Calling it a "moral mandate,” Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed into law a dozen bills that backers hope will improve policing in Washington, reduce the...
- Austin Jenkins
Oakland Becomes Latest City Looking To Take Police Out Of Nonviolent 911 Calls

The city's fire department will oversee the pilot project that aims to pair an EMT with someone with lived experience in the mental health, addiction, criminal justice or homeless services systems.
- Eric Westervelt
After Chauvin Verdict, Black Police Officers Consider What Has Changed

After the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin, Black police officers in America are considering what's changed and what hasn't in the year since George Floyd's death.
- Brianna Scott
Missing masks and missing texts, this week

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with The Stranger editor Chase Burns, Crosscut reporter David Kroman, and The Evergrey director Grace Madigan.
- Sarah Leibovitz
Avoiding 'political firestorm,' Seattle Police and Fire don’t track employees’ Covid vaccinations

The city of Denver says nearly seventy percent of its police officers have received the Covid vaccine. So have eighty percent of the frontline caregivers at the University of Washington. But there’s no data on vaccination rates among Seattle’s first responders.
- Amy Radil
How Using Videos At Chauvin Trial And Others Impacts Criminal Justice

The video of George Floyd's death was critical evidence in the murder trial of convicted ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. That video and others are changing trials and police training.
- Cheryl Corley

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