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SPD Chief Diaz terminates two officers who were outside Capitol building during Jan 6 riot
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Mayor Durkan: Council needs to pass bill addressing SPD staffing as soon as possible
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Interim SPD Chief Adrian Diaz. (Seattle Channel)
As Seattle leaders continue to search for answers amid a troubling string of recent shootings, interim Seattle Police Department (SPD) Chief Adrian Diaz spoke to KIRO Radio’s Gee and Ursula Show to address the many factors at play that have made that process difficult.
Over a 36-hour period, 10 people were shot in six separated unrelated incidents across the city, amid a year where gun violence across the region has risen to record highs. As for why that is, Diaz admits that at least for now, there isn’t one single solution.
“I wish I had a good answer because it would give us a lot more to focus on,” he noted.
Todd Herman Show 7 28 2021
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There were four people killed in Seattle early Sunday, plus at least six more injured in unconnected shootings. That was in addition to another deadly shooting that happened Friday night bringing the weekend total to five deaths.
The shootings continue an ongoing uptick in gun violence that’s already killed or wounded more than 200 people in King County so far this year. The unrelated shootings Sunday morning occurred in the Belltown, Pioneer Square, Chinatown International District and Capitol Hill neighborhoods.
Today Mayor Jenny Durkan gave a press conference about the weekend violence in which she pointed out that lack of police staffing was part of the problem. “Over the past 17 months the Seattle Police Department has lost 250 police officers,” Durkan said. She continued, “We’re on path to losing 300 officers. We are creating meaningful alternatives but as I said last year the city has an obligation to still continue constitutional policing and respond to 9