Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson will keep Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes.

She said she’ll work with Barnes “to make SPD a place where professionalism, integrity, compassion, and community partnership are at the center of every action.”

Wilson released a lengthy statement entitled “A Vision for Public Safety in Seattle” on Thursday.

“I understand public safety as a shared responsibility, requiring police, fire, emergency management, alternative responders, service providers, community leaders, businesses, and residents to work together to get results,” she wrote. “And it is time to build a coordinated, modern system which reflects that shared responsibility and helps us address our most difficult challenges, including persistent neighborhood-based safety issues, gun violence, behavior

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