Everett police turns off Facebook comments, citing online threats

EVERETT — Everett police turned off comments on its Facebook page due to an increase in “threats of violence” in recent months, Chief John DeRousse announced Tuesday.

DeRousse called the move a “temporary pause” to limit comments deemed threatening to officers. The police chief wrote that comments will resume after a “period of time,” but didn’t provide a specific timeline.

“As a police department, we are not strangers to receiving criticism, but where we draw the line is calls for violence against this department or its officers,” DeRousse wrote. “In Everett, threats of violence against our officers are not imaginary.”

The department will coordinate with the city’s legal and communications departments to determine when to turn the commenting option back on.

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