Nala has a nose for electronics. But she’s not your run-of-the-mill tech geek with a passion for gear and gadgets. A specially trained electronic storage detection (ESD) K9, Nala is… Read More
The Seattle Police Department discontinued its use of an artificial intelligence platform designed to analyze body-cam footage because of pushback from the union that represents officers. Mike Solan, president of… Read More
The Seattle Police Department has stopped using an artificial intelligence platform designed to analyze police body-cam footage in search of potentially inappropriate officer behavior. SPD had been using the software… Read More
Seattle is one of a handful of cities where police departments are using an artificial intelligence platform to sift through thousands of hours of police body-cam recordings, looking for patterns… Read More
The Seattle City Council’s passage this week of a $7.4 billion city budget for 2023 will not include funds sought by Mayor Bruce Harrell for gunshot detection technology. It’s the… Read More
Editor’s note: The story has been updated to correct its description of the study’s purpose. The study is testing the impact of the device on anxiety. A headband that emits… Read More
From a crime standpoint, Seattle isn’t having a great year. The monthly average of violent crimes — including homicide, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery — are up 10% higher than… Read More
— Entrepreneur Jeff Ma is now general manager of Microsoft for Startups. Ma founded CircleLending, Citzen Sports and tenXer, all of which were acquired. He was a predictive analytics expert… Read More
As surveillance technology is rapidly advancing — including facial recognition and devices such as Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras — the ability to regulate these tools is not keeping pace, agreed… Read More
On July 13, 1967, Susan Galvin was found dead in a parking garage elevator at Seattle Center. The 20-year-old administrative employee at the Seattle Police Department, who moved to Seattle… Read More
A large police presence Thursday at Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution founded by the late Paul Allen, turned out to be because a person broke in and… Read More
Today’s featured stories A nonprofit battles the ‘magnetic media crisis’ by digitizing aging movies before they vanish Seattle police try new tactic to give game streamers and others defense against… Read More
Law enforcement agencies across the country have found few answers when it comes to dealing with the dangerous and sometimes deadly practice of “swatting,” when a fake emergency call is… Read More
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they sing for you? From the top of the Space Needle to the alleys of Pioneer Square to the… Read More
In the midst of the giant PAX West gaming convention in Seattle this past weekend, one panel dedicated its conversation to not playing games. More specifically, the discussion on Monday… Read More
SPD shuts down Twitch channel amid backlash over Charleena Lyles discussion The Seattle Police Department has taken down its Twitch channel, FuzzFeed206, after a controversial broadcast this week that centered… Read More
The Seattle Police Department is ending its use of the Twitch online video game streaming service as a form of community outreach, after a backlash over a broadcast this week… Read More
Inside the Seattle Police Department, a special three-person unit known as a “fire team” sets out every week on a mission to protect civilization from alien threats. The workings of… Read More
It’s one thing to call the police. It’s quite another to have them call you — and then send a selfie to prove it’s really them. A California woman visiting… Read More
Philip Gansert and his wife were vacationing in San Francisco after Thanksgiving when an alert on his smartphone notified him that someone was on his front porch back in Seattle. As… Read More
The Seattle Police Department has chosen Axon, a unit of Taser International, as its supplier of body-worn video cameras and a cloud-based digital evidence management platform called Evidence.com, the Seattle-based company announced… Read More
All that bad boy, bad boy footage, gone forever. Thousands of videos shot by Seattle Police Department patrol car dash cams during two days in July have been lost due to a… Read More
Holy copycats, Batman! A man was arrested Monday night in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood after throwing a batarang at pursuing officers following an altercation at a bar. According to the… Read More
Axon, a Seattle-based business unit of Taser International, says it has landed a $28 million contract to provide body cameras for all front-line officers at the Los Angeles Police Department. Axon… Read More
The Seattle Police Department has a new high-tech crime center that it hopes will help officers, investigators, and analysts solve crimes more efficiently and effectively. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, Police Chief… Read More
Celebrating Seattle Pride at Sunday’s parade turned into a not-so-awesome day for one woman when she was knocked unconscious by a falling drone. As the Seattle Police blotter reports, a 25-year-old… Read More
In case you needed just one more reason to get off your cell phone while driving, here’s a good one: Seattle and other area police departments are specifically looking for… Read More
In a week that seems to be all about putting body cameras on police, the Obama administration has announced $20 million in grants to fund the technology is coming to local… Read More
Well, this is one way to get a job. The Stranger reports the Seattle Police Department has hired the once-anonymous coder who requested all the video footage from its pilot body-cam… Read More
Bike thieves are some of the worst people in the world, like those who won’t give up their seats on the bus for the elderly, or someone who takes candy… Read More
