The Seattle City Council needs to approved the decision. If it does, Barnes will begin the new position in January.

Chief Shon F. Barnes, of the Madison Police Department in Wisconsin, has been named to head the Seattle Police Department.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes was named as the chief of police in Seattle on Friday, five days after he was thrust into ...

Ultimately, there were three finalists for the job: Barnes; Nicholas Augustine, assistant chief of the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland ... of 2000 with the Greensboro Police ...

Mayor Bruce Harrell has made it clear he wants a chief from outside the Seattle Police Department who could lead it out of the last vestiges of federal oversight.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes, nominated to lead Seattle's police force, continues to deal with the aftermath of a ...

The Seattle mayor's office office said Barnes was chosen over two other finalists, an assistant police chief in Montgomery County, Maryland ... 2000 with the Greensboro Police Department in ...

He was paid $230,000 to separate from Dover police. Greensboro Police Department in Maryland's Easter Shore hired him. There, he and three other officers forcibly subdued Anton Black, a black ...

Deaths were ruled accidents more frequently when medical examiners or coroners were in the same community as the department ... and approached Greensboro, North Carolina, police for help.