A newly-released report from the Seattle Police Department shows violent crime hit a 15-year high in 2022.
The number of homicides also rose by 24%, with 55 lives lost last year, most of those by gunfire. That surpasses the numbers in 2020, when 53 people were murdered, a 25-year high for the city.
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“For a number of years, we saw a reduction in overall violent crime from 2010 to 2017,” said Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz. “Now we’re seeing an uptick over the past five years, and really the last three years, we saw a lot more aggravated
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