Seattle police chief candidates attend community forums, share thoughts

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A Seattle Police Department assistant chief and a department captain are among the candidates interested in becoming the city's next police chief, with both have participated in the community outreach process. Members of the public had been invited by Mayor Katie Wilson over the last week to attend community forums to voice what they wanted in their next police chief. Seattle Police Assistant Chief Robert Brown came to the last forum Wednesday night in uniform, sitting at a table with community members discussing the chief's selection.

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• Speaking at tables, community members talked Wednesday, as they did at other forums, about how they wanted the new chief to be familiar with Seattle, rein in open-air drug markets and street crime and also...
• Afterward, he confirmed to The Center Square that he was a candidate for the job.
• Brown, one of several assistant chiefs in the department and head of the police department's patrol division, said he would bring a number of qualifications to the job.
• "Stability, experience, respect, insight of the department, as well as strong connections in the community," he told The Center Square.
• Brown, who brings 30 years of experience to the job, said he enjoyed hearing community members' thoughts on what they wanted in a new chief.

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"It was very good, very helpful to hear the thoughts of the commu...