Tacoma police chief back after weeklong investigation

By Lauren Gallup
After a week of administrative leave, Tacoma’s police chief is back on duty. Tacoma City Manager Elizabeth Pauli placed Tacoma Police Chief Avery Moore on leave last week. In a statement released on Wednesday, Pauli wrote that she conducted a fact-finding investigation into personal use of a city asset. The statement did not specific what the city asset, or costs Read More

Crisis Clinicians Ride Along With Washington Deputies In Latest Example Of Policing Reimagined

By Tom Banse
Compass Health program manager Marla Johns, center, and Skagit County Detective Anne Weed, right, collaborated to embed mental health clinicians with deputies responding to relevant 911 calls.
Skagit County Sheriff's Office Detective Anne Weed broached the idea for a partnership months before the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police ignited the national debate about reform. Weed said two existing mental health clinicians from Compass Health are now being "embedded" with regular patrol deputies. They get assigned the 911 calls involving people acting out Read More

Two-Thirds Of Black Americans Don’t Trust The Police To Treat Them Equally. Most Whites Do

By PBS Newshour
A protester stands in front of U.S. Secret Service officers at Lafayette Square near the White House on June 1 after the park was cleared for President Donald Trump's walk to the historic St. John's Church, which sustained minor fire damage during earlier demonstrations.
Nearly half of black Americans have very little or no confidence that police officers in their community treat people with different skin colors the same, according to the latest PBS NewsHour-NPR-Marist poll. But overall, only 18 percent of Americans take that view — an illustration in itself that people of different races are living different realities in the United States.Read More

Student Mini-Docs

By Murrow News 8 Staff
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Four unique mini-docs that look at motherhood in higher education, police and drone technology, protecting our own backyard and WSU women's rowing. These unique mini-documentaries were produced, directed and edited by students of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.Read More
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