Seattle Is in Free Fall
Seattle Is in Free Fall Victoria Taft | 7:02 PM on July 31, 2026 Victoria Taft/AI Well, another Seattle chief of police just got fired. The city has had four in the past two-and-a-half years. There's been only one mayor in the past 26 years who has been elected to two consecutive terms.
- ▪Seattle Is in Free Fall Victoria Taft | 7:02 PM on July 31, 2026 Victoria Taft/AI Well, another Seattle chief of police just got fired.
- ▪The city has had four in the past two-and-a-half years.
- ▪There's been only one mayor in the past 26 years who has been elected to two consecutive terms.
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| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:02:00 -0400 |
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Seattle Is in Free Fall Victoria Taft | 7:02 PM on July 31, 2026 Victoria Taft/AI Well, another Seattle chief of police just got fired. The city has had four in the past two-and-a-half years. There's been only one mayor in the past 26 years who has been elected to two consecutive terms. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); In one of those years, 2017, Seattle had four mayors. "In just three months, Ed Murray, Bruce Harrell, Tim Burgess and Jenny Durkan all held the title of Seattle mayor," Fox 13 reported. Is this normal? Of course not.
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