The Seattle Times Crime section covers law enforcement by police, prosecutors and courts in Seattle, the Eastside, King County, the Northwest and nationwide. Topics include arrests and prosecution of suspects in cases of murder, manslaughter, rape and assault. Other topics are the federal courts; the FBI; Homeland Security; and Justice Department oversight of the Seattle Police Department.
A federal judge in Seattle has told the city and the Department of Justice to come up with a plan to address an "inadequate" officer-accountability...
There were an average of 70 reported violent muggings every day in Mexico City in the first four months of 2019. About two-thirds were committed...
About 62 inmates convicted of second-degree robbery will be left serving life sentences, according to Washington state records, even after judges stop "striking out" new...
At least five times, from 1989 to 1991, the state received referrals or complaints — from family friends, a school counselor, a teacher — describing...
The man was found critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in a strip mall in Seattle's Bitter Lake neighborhood.
The name of a Cowlitz County sheriff's deputy killed in April will be engraved on the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C., joining the...