This is the Seattle Community Police Commission's weekly newsletter. We know keeping up with all the news about police reform can be hard. So every week, we'll give you a digestible dose of it delivered right to your inbox.

We Need Your Help

Washington's Initiative 940 was approved by voters in November with wide-ranging community support, but the journey to implement its police reforms isn't over. Right now, you have a chance to have a say in how those reforms will work. Read more.

Event this week: 

• April 11 (Thursday): NAACP community discussion on training in Kent

Local News

• Seattle Times: Is Seattle ‘dying’? Crime rates tell a different story

• Crosscut: Seattle officials vow to move forward with safe injection sites, despite U.S. attorney threat

• Seattle Channel: Civic Cocktail: Chief Carmen Best & Sheriff Johanknecht

• KUOW: Suicide Is The Leading Cause Of Death In Oregon And Washington Jails

Improving police interviews 

The CPC, Office of the Inspector General, and Seattle Police heard from an expert about different techniques law enforcement internationally are using to conduct better police interviews. 

Not only does improving police interviews help investigators do their jobs, but it's a key component of keeping innocent people from being wrongly convicted. 

Read more:

• Innocence Project: 1 in 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession

National News

• New York Times: A.I. Experts Question Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Technology

• NPR: Police Are Investing In New Technology. 'Thin Blue Lie' Asks, 'Does It Work?'

• The Hill: Van Jones to host new CNN series focused on 'restorative justice'

• LA Times: Why California’s proposed law on deadly police force isn’t as tough as it seems

• SF Chronicle: Court upholds broad release of police misconduct records in California

Have any feedback or ideas about this newsletter? Email jesse.franz@seattle.gov