A Glitch in the Seattle Police Computer System Last Year Routed Nearly Three Times As Many Pot-Possession Reports to City Attorney Pete Holmes As the Year Before.

The jump wasn't a matter of a changed focus by the department, said Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, a spokesman for the Seattle Police Department (SPD). Police are continuing to make pot their lowest priority, Whitcomb said. And the department says its officers made no arrests last year in which marijuana possession was the only charge.

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