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.
This page offers three resources:
The Seattle Police Monitor's Preliminary Assessment on Crisis Intervention
The Seattle Police Monitor's Presentation Slides on the Preliminary Assessment
A Questionnaire Form link to facilitate public feedback on the Preliminary Assessment
You will find all three below.
Document: Seattle Police Monitor Preliminary Assessment: Crisis Intervention, December 2021
The Consent Decree required that SPD implement several reforms aimed at reducing force applied to individuals experiencing behavioral crisis and steering individuals in crisis to appropriate mental health and social services. Over the course of the Consent Decree, SPD has implemented new policy, training, and data tracking mechanisms to support improved response to crisis situations. Based on a 2016 assessment of SPD’s performance, the Monitoring Team declared that SPD had complied with the crisis intervention requirements of the Decree. This compliance was subsequently confirmed in a 2018 review. This assessment revisits SPD’s performance on crisis intervention.
Click the link below to download the Seattle Police Monitor's Crisis Intervention Preliminay Assessment
On January 11th, 2022, the Monitoring team presented the findings of the Crisis Intervention Preliminary Assessment to the public. This document is a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation used by the team during that session.
Click the link below to download the Seattle Police Monitor's Crisis Intervention Preliminay Assessment Presentation
The Monitoring Team has provided a form on this website to facilitate the community providing the Monitoring Team with input and ideas on policing services, policies, and practices for the City of Seattle as they related to Crisis Intervention. This form is open to the public.
