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Everett police outline prevention–intervention–enforcement plan as juvenile firearm arrests rise
Summary
Police presented a three-part youth-safety strategy and youth advisory board members described outreach and school panels; the department reported juvenile firearm-related arrests and gang-related juvenile suspects are up about 23% while juvenile victimization is down about 20%.
Robert Gets, chief of police, told the Community Health & Safety Committee on April 1 that the city’s approach to youth violence is built around prevention, intervention and enforcement and that the work “is truly a whole community effort.”
Gets said prevention centers on school-based engagement by school resource officers (SROs), noting SROs are assigned to Everett High School, Cascade High School, North Explore Eisenhower and Evergreen Middle Schools. He said one of two SRO vacancies was filled in 2025 and the department expects to fill the final vacancy by the start of the 2026–27 school year to return to fuller coverage.
The department highlighted youth programs intended to…
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