A federal judge returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department on Wednesday, after overseeing 13 years of reforms prompted by a U.S. Justice Department investigation that ...

A judge ended federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department on Wednesday, more than 10 years after it entered a consent decree with the Department of Justice. In 2012, the Justice Department ...

A federal judge ended the monitoring imposed after allegations of excessive force and racial bias. The city pointed to progress in improving officer accountability and training. By Mike Baker ...

Over the past few months, a troubling pattern has emerged across America’s major cities. As President Donald Trump’s administration dispatches federal agents and National Guard troops to jurisdictions ...

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