Seattle, feds seek to end most oversight of city's police FOX13
Seattle has overhauled virtually all aspects of its police department since DOJ investigators in 2011 found officers were too quick to use force and too often escalated encounters to the point where force was necessary.
Both sides asked U.S. District Judge James Robart to terminate their 2012 settlement agreement, known as a consent decree, which gave the court oversight of reform efforts. to racial justice protests in 2020. Robart would continue to oversee reform work related to those topics under a new agreement."Seattle stands as a model for the kind of change and reform that can be achieved when communities, police departments and cities come together to repair and address systemic misconduct," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, told a news conference in Seattle.
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