seattle police department

SEATTLE (AP) — Two officers who fatally shot a 30-year-old Seattle mother in her apartment have been identified. The Seattle Police Department said Wednesday that 34-year-old Steven McNew and 32-year-old Jason Anderson were the officers who shot Charleena Lyles on Sunday...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council is set to review legislation Mayor Ed Murray says will create the strongest and most transparent oversight of the city's police department in Seattle's history. KING-TV reported Wednesday that the proposal creates an independent Office of Inspector General to review all department policies and practices...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Police Department is outfitting its first group of officers with body cameras starting this week. KOMO-TV reports that about a dozen officers in the city's bike squad will begin wearing the devices Thursday. The officers were assigned cameras and went through training with them on Tuesday...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Seattle Police Department had a duty to monitor a confidential informant who turned violent. In the complaint, Francisco Islas Casillas said he was kidnapped, robbed and assaulted by police informant Jessahel Ortega-Baldis in 2012...

SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Seattle says it won't be able to produce police-accountability legislation by Labor Day as promised. The Seattle Times reports the city informed a federal judge Thursday that it needs more time to work on the legislation aimed at bolstering civilian oversight and assuring officers are held accountable for misconduct...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Police Department says a failure in the storage system that holds its digital in-car video has wiped out two days' worth of recordings. The department says the affected recordings date to July 13 and 14. The majority were of in-car video tests that officers conduct at the start of their shifts or of low-level disturbance calls...

Trained eyes are getting credit for a child pornography arrest that started in "the cloud" and ended here in Yakima county. Microsoft's Skydrive lets users freely store pictures, videos and documents and can be accessed from pretty much anywhere...