The numbers shared by City Attorney Ann Davison’s office show they have dramatically reduced how long victims must wait for justice.
The Seattle city attorney’s office is making major headway on the backlog of thousands of misdemeanor criminal cases that built up during the pandemic. But there are still major bottlenecks in the system -- meaning some criminals end up going free. released on Wednesday shows several areas of improvement. The numbers shared by City Attorney Ann Davison’s office show they have dramatically reduced how long victims must wait for justice.
“What does that message say to victims? What happened to you didn’t matter,” Davison said. She said now their team has managed to drop the wait time to about three days. And the report acknowledges that some crimes like “thefts are likely heavily underreported compared to assaults given the staffing challenges at SPD.”
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