Roughly 350 Seattle police officers have left the department over the past two years. That’s according to interim SPD Chief Adrian Diaz, who reiterated that point as he presented the department’s annual crime report to Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee this week.
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“Overall crime, as you’re aware has increased by 10%. But violent crime increased by 20%, and this is in large part by aggravated assaults, or homicide in 2020 reaching a 25-year high,” he described. “We did see homicides drop in 2021. However, we saw more victims of gun violence than we’ve ever had since we started tracking these
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