The Seattle Police Department has 350 sworn officers eligible for retirement but cannot afford to lose more than 100 officers, according to the Seattle Police Guild President Mike Solan.
The department has roughly 875 deployable officers and requires 1,400 to be considered fully staffed.
That deficit is reflected in median response times for priority calls where risk to life is imminent: Seattle Police take upwards of five minutes to respond to those calls, depending on the precinct, according to information presented by interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz in June.
“What I think is incredibly alarming is that we have 350 current people eligible to retire right now,” Solan
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