Seattle’s crimes against society, June 2026
Seattle police recorded 645 crimes against society in June 2026, up 56.9% from a year earlier. It is the third NIBRS category, the one the monthly crime post charts the other two of: drug and narcotic offenses, weapon-law violations, prostitution, gambling, animal cruelty.
It is also the category that measures the police rather than the city. There is no victim to call 911 about a drug offense, so almost every one of these exists because an officer went looking — which makes the line a read on enforcement policy and staffing, not on how much of any of this is happening. When it moves, ask what changed at the department before asking what changed on the street. The rest of the crime data has a version of this problem; here it is the whole of it.
Offenses, not incidents, and the recent months revise upward as reports land. The chart starts in 2020 because SPD changed records systems in 2019 and the counts on either side of that are not comparable.
Source: Seattle Police Department, SPD Crime Data 2008-Present, via data.seattle.gov (Socrata tazs-3rd5), NIBRS crimes-against-society category. Auto-generated each build.