Seattle police downtown during protests in May of 2020. (KIRO Radio, Hanna Scott)
In 2019, an annual report from the Office of Police Accountability showed Seattle Police receiving the fewest number of complaints the department had seen in five years. That year, there were 928 total complaints both from within the department and outside interactions with the public, compared to 1,924 complaints in 2015, a significant decline and ongoing trend over the five-year period.
OPA received over 19,000 complaints against SPD from protests in 2020
Then, on May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers on camera, in video that
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