What does HBO’s classic crime drama The Wire and an Amazon Prime membership have to do with mapping crime in Seattle? Quite a lot. Both directly contributed to a University… Read More
The Seattle Police Department this morning named Amazon vice president Greg Russell as its new chief information officer — aiming to boost its technological prowess and improve its ability to use data to… Read More
It has just 15 videos and, as of this morning, 38 subscribers. But the Seattle Police Department’s new SPD BodyWornVideo channel on YouTube could represent a sea change in the department’s… Read More
We know it’s illegal and dangerous, but the temptation to send a text message or make a phone call while sitting at a red light or in traffic — or worse, while driving —… Read More
Several police departments around the nation are already using body-worn cameras, and now you can add Seattle’s to that list. The SPD will soon launch a pilot program that will feature 12… Read More
Krishna Venkatesh, a Microsoft Windows program manager, will be the subject of a search Tuesday morning at Deception Pass State Park, 80 miles north of Seattle, where his car was discovered… Read More
While they aren’t going to fly over buildings and fry computers with microwaves, drones managed by the City of Seattle may help during rescue missions, disaster responses and traffic accidents.… Read More
The Seattle Police Department is catching a ton of grief for transforming its Twitter feed from a selective news channel into an overactive police scanner — flooding its followers for… Read More