An unoccupied  house  in the South Park neighborhood had recently been burglarized where the suspects had stolen wire.  On May 18th, the house’s representative had replaced the wiring and boarded up the point of entry the previous thieves had used.  At approximately 4:30 pm, Southwest Precinct officers were in the area on a different theft [...]

There was a strange sort of synchronicity in some of the 6,611 incidents police responded to in the last week. On May 12, a man in his 20s was wounded in a shooting in the parking lot of a south Seattle restaurant near Rainier Avenue and S. Fisher Place. Four days later, a 31-year-old man was shot and killed in [...]

On May 18th at approximately 3:16 p.m. officers responded to a 911 call of a bank robbery in the 1000 block of 8th Avenue North.  The suspect entered the bank and walked up to a teller counter.  The suspect implied he had a gun and after receiving an undisclosed amount of cash he fled the [...]

The community and law enforcement gathered together to remember those Seattle Police officers who gave the ultimate sacrifice at a ceremony this afternoon at Forest Lawn Cemetery.  Here are a few photos from this afternoon’s event.  Photos are courtesy of David Rosen – SlickPix Photography – West Seattle Herald.

On May 18th at approximately 4:34 p.m. officers responded to 1st Avenue NE and NE 103rd Street for the report of a stabbing.  Officers located a teen-aged female victim who had sustained multiple stab wounds.  SFD medics are on scene treating the victim at this time. The suspect, who remains at large at this time, [...]

On May 8th at approximately 10:00 a.m. the 72-year-old female victim was walking down the sidewalk near 5th Avenue South and South King Street.  Two unknown female suspects in their 50′s approached the victim and told her that her family was in danger (as they walked through the International District a third female suspect in [...]

Want to learn about being a police officer?  What is CSI?  What does I & R stand for?  What’s a DOA?  The Seattle Police Department is now taking applications for the fall Community Police Academy that begins Thursday, September 6, 2012.  Classes are held once a week for eleven-weeks from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. [...]

The 2012 Seattle Police Memorial Remembrance will take place this afternoon at 1:00 pm at Forest Lawn Cemetery in West Seattle.  The memorial ceremony honors the sacrifices of our fallen Seattle Police officers. This is the fourth annual ceremony held in Seattle, and it shows local support for Seattle Police officers as part of National Police Week [...]

On May 17th at approximately 12:32 p.m. officers responded to a collision involving a vehicle that collided into a pole near North 34th Street and Burke Avenue North.  Preliminary investigation indicates that a white 1998 Ford Taurus stationwagon driven by a 91-year-old male was leaving a restaurant located in the 1800 block of North 34th Street when [...]

Tim Dampier was arrested in May 2011 by Seattle Police Sexual Assault Unit detectives for sex crimes against children.  He is a well-known church musician tied to several African-American churches in the greater Seattle area and had worked at the group home Samuel House (Kent) and the Union Gospel Mission.  At the time of his [...]