The Monitoring Team will report on SPD’s capacity to respond to a person in crisis as well as statistics related to SPD’s crisis intervention response, including the frequency of crisis response and the outcomes of these events. This section of the report will also discuss training requirements and completion as well as frequency of use of force in crisis situations and misconduct allegations related to crisis intervention.
The Monitor will be collaborating with the Seattle Community Police Commission to convene a series of Community Engagement Sessions around the completed comprehensive assessments of the Seattle Police. The goal of the Community Engagement Sessions is to inform the public on overall progress of the consent decree, communicate results of the assessments, and gain insights and ideas directly from the community on progress needed in 2022 to work toward compliance and closure of the consent decree effectively and legitimately. The Monitoring Team will also provide an overview of how the City and SPD have responded to issues with SPD’s handling of protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The first of these preliminary assessments, Crisis Intervention, is availble for public viewing here.
