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1 Stay Out of Drug Areas Declaration of Sergeant Chris Bennett May 2025 I, Chris Bennett, certify or declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the following is true and correct: I am a Sergeant with the Everett Police Department. My current assignment is Sergeant of the Anti-Crime Team (ACT). ACT focuses on problem locations in the city with the goal of reducing crime, including narcotics related crimes, proactively. I have been a commissioned police officer since 2006. In my time with the Everett Police Department I have been involved in uniform and undercover proactive narcotics investigations. I have spent my career working patrol and spent roughly three and a hal f years working in ACT as an officer. I have been a Master Police Officer responsible for training new officers and was promoted to Sergeant in October of 2016. I began supervising the Anti-Crime Team in the spring of 2021. I have made or been involved in hundreds of narcotics arrests in the City of Everett, including Stay out of Drug Areas (“SODA”) Order violations. I have attended numerous hours of training related to narcotics investigations. In preparing this document, I consulted with Sergeant Nathan Wallace who supervises the Everett Police Department’s Community Response Team (CRT). The Community Response Team proactively enforces quality of life complaints while also conducting proactive narcotic investigations. I know they have extensive knowledge of narcotics activity throughout the city. I also had the Everett Police Department Crime Analysis Unit evaluate the drug arrest and complaints of drug activity for a two-year time frame (Jan. 2023 – Dec. 2024). Included with this declaration is a PowerPoint presentation they prepared which includes maps that display drug related incidents, arrests and narcotic overdose data; it is referenced by year and location within the city.