police accountability

Starting in September, law enforcement agencies will have to report when officers use force, like firing a gun or striking an individual, to the state’s new database.

When a police officer does something wrong, one option is decertification – taking away their badge and gun, for good. But there are some hurdles.

A Seattle police officer has been fired for making callous remarks about the death of a graduate student from India after she was struck last year by another officer’s vehicle.

The jury deliberated for three days before finding Nelson guilty of second-degree murder and first-degree assault for shooting Jesse Sarey twice outside a convenience store.

Christopher “Shane” Burbank has resigned days after being hired as a Thurston County Sheriff's deputy. One of three Tacoma officers charged in the 2020 killing of Manuel Ellis, Burbank was acquitted of all charges in December.

In the final episode of The Walk Home podcast, KNKX examines the recently unsealed internal affairs interviews with the Tacoma Police officers involved the night Manuel "Manny" Ellis died.

During the penultimate week of Washington's 2024 legislative session, lawmakers left behind some major bills, committees held public hearings and voted on some high-profile initiatives, and several measures crossed the finish line.

Here's a quick-start guide about the unprecedented slate of Washington initiatives aiming to repeal a major climate policy, kill a tax on some of the state's richest residents, and more.

Seattle has agreed to pay demonstrators who sued over the police department's heavy-handed response to protests following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

The watchdog group opened an investigation after an officer's callous remarks about the death of Jaahnavi Kandula were heard in audio recorded from his body camera.