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Nearly half of the 911 calls to Seattle police can handled without armed, sworn officers, according to a report commissioned by Mayor Jennie Durkan.
The report, based on three years of dispatch data for 911 calls compiled by the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR), was part of a plan launched in September to ”reimagine” policing in Seattle, reports the Seattle Times.
The NCIJR, which specialized in reducing incarceration and gun violence through the country, found that at some point in the future, an “alternative, non-sworn response” could have been appropriate for up to 49 percent of Seattle Police Department (SPD) calls, or about 685,000 dispatch responses between 2017 and 2019…
