After Seattle city council voted to substantially defund the police, a move which led to the resignation of the chief of police, Mayor Jenny Durkan vetoed bill.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 24, 2020
Faith leaders, leaders from communities of color and police reform advocates called on Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best to reconsider her decision to retire.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 21, 2020
While cities across America work to defund their police departments, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo is encouraging officers to come to Texas.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 20, 2020
Ernie Lou, who lives in Capitol Hill, where activists took over a six block area and held it for 30 days, filed the complaint saying that the councilmember has lost touch with her district.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 19, 2020
Three officers were injured and were hospitalized and eighteen people were arrested after a riot was declared during the anti-police union demonstration in SoDo.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 18, 2020
Politicians who are supporting the BLM movement fail to realize they are supporting the very groups who seek to overthrow them.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 17, 2020
Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant celebrated the resignation of black Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and the firing of minority officers in the "fight to stop racism."
Ari Hoffman / Aug 14, 2020
The failed Capitol Hill Occupied Protest in Seattle could be viewed as a cautionary tale, but local Seattle media outlets and politicians still have their heads in the sand.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 11, 2020
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, the city's first black female police chief, will resign Wednesday morning after city council enacted massive cuts to the department, and substantially reduced her pay.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 11, 2020
"A big element of what happened in Nazi Germany was that a lot of people, good people that should have known better said nothing. They were afraid. And that was true here," Mass said.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 10, 2020
In cutting the pay of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and other Seattle Police Department command staff, Best, an African American woman, will now make $100,000 less than her white predecessor.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 10, 2020
A weatherman for a NPR has been taken off the air for a personal blog post that shows in vivid detail the destruction two months of incessant rioting and protests have wrecked on Seattle.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 7, 2020
Seattle backtracked on their promise of a 50 percent defunding of the Seattle Police Department, but slashed police department programs, and reduced the number of officers on the force.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 6, 2020
King County prosecutors have filed first-degree murder charges for a suspect accused of killing a teenager in a fatal June 20 shooting at the armed occupation of Seattle, known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). The suspect remains at large.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 6, 2020
Activists claim that Seattle's aggressive crowd control measures forced them to purchase expensive protective gear, "pricing" them out of exercising their rights.
Ari Hoffman / Aug 5, 2020