


Increase legitimacy of government agencies and departments.Support analysis with data and evidence.Improve systems to reduce or prevent future negative outcomes or harm to community.Learn from mistakes and other best practices in other jurisdictions.Identify root causes of negative outcomes.Focus on community perspectives and concerns define implementable recommendations for SPD change.The principles and goals of these reviews are: Principles SER aims to identify the causes and contributing factors to these incidents with the goal of prevention. SER is not focused on individual actions or assigning blame, but strengthening system fail-safes to prevent harm. This work is different from that of the Office of Police Accountability, which investigates allegations of individual police employee misconduct. A SER panel will review "critical incidents," looking at SPD systems to determine how they can avoid future harmful outcomes and better serve the community.

Our Sentinel Event Review (SER) is a community inclusive accountability program led by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). Examples of SPD sentinel events include officer-involved shootings, mass use of chemical weapons during protests, fatal vehicle pursuits, and other incidents that negatively impact individual safety, community well-being, and public trust in SPD. Sentinel events can occur as result of Seattle Police Department (SPD) interactions with the public. What is the Seattle Sentinel Event Review? Industries like airlines and health care providers have developed and used "sentinel event review" processes to thoroughly examine these types of incidents, identify what caused them, and use those lessons to prevent them in the future. View Sentinel Event Review Report Wave 2*Ī sentinel event is a significant negative outcome, such as a death or serious injury, that acts as a signal that problems within a system exist and may lead to similar bad results if the system is not examined to find root causes and proper remedies.
