SEATTLE - Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best will resign after the Seattle City Council voted to slash the department’s budget.Carmen Best, the city’s first Black police chief, said in a letter to the department that her retirement will be effective Sept.
2 and the mayor has appointed Deputy Chief Adrian Diaz as the interim chief.“I am confident the department will make it through these difficult times,” Best said in the letter. “You truly are the best police department in the country, and please trust me when I say, the vast majority of people in Seattle support you and appreciate you. ...
I look forward to seeing how this department moves forward through the process of re-envisioning public safety. I relish the work that will be done by all.