Editing Lynnwood, Washington (section)

===Crime===
{{Infobox UCR
|city_name= Lynnwood
|year= 2015
|homicide= 3
|rape= 14
|robbery= 92
|aggravated_assault= 111
|violent_crime= 220
|burglary= 507
|larceny_theft= 4,940
|motor_vehicle_theft= 415
|arson= 5
|property_crime= 5,861
|source_url= https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-8/table-8-state-pieces/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_washington_by_city_2015.xls
|source_name= 2015 FBI UCR Data
}}

The Lynnwood Police Department has 70 officers and 38 support staff, overseen by chief Tom Davis since his appointment to the position in August 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tompkins |first=Caitlin |date=April 28, 2017 |title=Lynnwood's new police chief promotes community |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/lynnwoods-new-police-chief-promotes-community/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> In 2015, Lynnwood had 81 [[violent crime]]s and 2,162 [[property crime]]s reported to law enforcement.<ref name="UCR">{{cite web |date=September 2016 |title=Table 8 – Washington: Offenses Known to Law Enforcement by City, 2015 |url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-8/table-8-state-pieces/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_washington_by_city_2015.xls |work=[[Uniform Crime Reports]] |publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> The city's violent [[crime rate]] was 220 per 100,000 people, ranking below the [[Crime in the United States|national]] and state averages; the property crime rate of 5,861 per 100,000 people was significantly above the national and state averages.<ref name="2015Crime">{{cite news |last=McDonald |first=Will |date=September 29, 2016 |title=Washington crime rates by city |url=http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/crime_and_courts/washington-crime-rates-by-city/article_52f5dade-8680-11e6-95e5-bb1ca24f67ea.html |work=[[Yakima Herald]] |access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |date=September 26, 2016 |title=The FBI Releases 2015 Crime Statistics for Washington State |url=https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/seattle/news/press-releases/the-fbi-releases-2015-crime-statistics-for-washington-state |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> Lynnwood has a relatively low overall crime rate compared to cities of the same size in Washington state, but ranks high for property crime, particularly [[larceny]] attributed to the nearby Alderwood Mall.<ref name="2015Crime"/><ref>{{cite report |date=May 11, 2017 |title=Lynnwood Police Department and Detention Services Study |pages=14–16 |url=http://www.lynnwoodwa.gov/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6984 |publisher=City of Lynnwood |access-date=August 3, 2017 |archive-date=August 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804045045/http://www.lynnwoodwa.gov/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6984 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In an effort to curb traffic violations, the city government installed twelve [[red light camera]]s and four [[school zone]] cameras that took approximately 44,000 photos per year {{as of|2017|lc=y}} and generated $3.4 million in ticket revenue in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 2018 |title=City of Lynnwood Biennial Budget 2019–2020 Program Descriptions: Traffic |page=297 |url=https://www.lynnwoodwa.gov/files/sharedassets/public/finance/budget-docs/2019-2020-biennial-budget-adopted.pdf |publisher=City of Lynnwood |access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Giordano |first=Lizz |date=April 8, 2019 |title=Lynnwood renews red-light-camera contract for five years |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/lynnwood-renews-red-light-camera-contract-for-five-years/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref>

The 2008 rape of a teenage woman in Lynnwood, part of a [[Washington and Colorado serial rape cases|serial rape case]], was the subject of "[[An Unbelievable Story of Rape]]", an article published by ProPublica and the Marshall Project and the winner of a [[Pulitzer Prize]]. It was adapted into the true crime miniseries ''[[Unbelievable (miniseries)|Unbelievable]]'' for Netflix in 2019.<ref name="Herald-Rape">{{cite news |last1=Bryan |first1=Zachariah |last2=Thompson |first2=Evan |date=September 10, 2019 |title='Unbelievable' story of Lynnwood teen's rape retold on Netflix |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/unbelievable-story-of-lynnwood-teens-rape-retold-on-netflix/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=September 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Li |first=Shirley |date=September 13, 2019 |title=Netflix's Unbelievable Is a Different Sort of Drama About Sexual Assault |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/09/netflixs-unbelievable-different-sort-rape-drama/597946/ |work=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> Between 2008 and 2012, Lynnwood police had labeled 21 percent of rape cases as "unfounded", five times the national average for similarly sized municipalities.<ref name="Miller & Armstrong 2015">{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=T. Christian |author-link1=T. Christian Miller |last2=Armstrong |first2=Ken |author-link2=Ken Armstrong (journalist) |title=An Unbelievable Story of Rape |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story |publisher=ProPublica, The Marshall Project |date=December 16, 2015}}</ref> The victim, known as "Marie", was initially dismissed by detectives with the Lynnwood police department before the assailant, a [[serial rapist]], was charged and convicted for the rapes of five more women. The city government agreed to a $150,000 settlement in the victim's lawsuit in 2014 and later changed the police department's procedures on sexual assault investigations.<ref name="Herald-Rape"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Mike |date=January 14, 2014 |title=Lynnwood to pay rape victim $150,000 in false-claim suit |url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022669813_lawsuitsettled1xml.html |work=The Seattle Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101221027/http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022669813_lawsuitsettled1xml.html |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |access-date=September 13, 2019}}</ref>