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New WA Agency Investigating Police Deadly Force Incidents Sees Budget Cuts
- On the night of May 7 near Poulsbo, Washington’s new Office of Independent Investigations faced several cases involving police use of deadly force during traffic stops.
- The office, created in December to provide independent probes of police killings, responded to these cases amid calls for accountability after incidents like those of George Floyd and Manuel Ellis.
- One case involved 41-year-old Justin Moegling, who was shot in the head by officers while resisting custody, and another involved 54-year-old Marc Fogle, who was stabbed by a deputy after an alleged attempt to take the officer's gun.
- Although the office requested more than $53 million for the 2025–2026 biennium, lawmakers cut the budget by over 20%, reducing it to under $30 million due to a multibillion-dollar shortfall.
- These budget cuts raise concerns about the agency’s ability to handle police accountability cases, even as it has investigated nine incidents in seven months across Washington.
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New Washington State Agency Investigating Police Deadly Force Incidents Sees Budget Cuts
OLYMPIA, WA – The night of May 7 was a challenge for Washington’s nascent agency tasked with investigating when police kill people. The new state Office of Independent Investigations started looking into such cases in December. But only in a swath of western Washington, stretching from the northwestern edge of the Olympic Peninsula to Clark and Skamania counties on the border with Oregon. Lawmakers established the office as an alternative to cop…
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