Nearly 80% of 911 calls made to the Seattle Police Department between 2017 and 2019 were for “non-criminal events,” according to an agency hired by the city to conduct an analysis of such calls.
Of the 1.2 million calls made to Seattle police during that time, only 6% involved felony activity, the agency said in its analysis. Just over 14% of calls involved misdemeanor activity.
The agency, the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, was hired in 2020 to analyze calls to Seattle police as part of then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s executive order aimed at reimagining policing in the city. That order, issued in the wake of George Floyd’s murder
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