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Chief Mazzie retiring

With a public announcement made just before the Thanksgiving Holiday noting that he will be retiring in June, 2024, Everett Police Steve Mazzie said the time has come to turn a new page in the evolving story of his life.

After 32 years on the police force, with almost 20 as chief, Mazzie’s career has been a day to day, week to week, year to year, decade to decade homage to duty and service in this city.

By all accounts, Mazzie has done an admirable job of creating the Everett Police Department in its present incarnation as a hip, sturdy, duty bound policing organization capable of keeping the peace in this city.

Those of us who have come to know Mazzie during the past 20 years appreciate his honesty and integrity.

Mazzie is a man of the people. He never speaks down to Everett residents.

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Everett Police Chief Steve Mazzie set to retire in 2024 after serving for 20 years

By Josh Resnek

**Everett Police Chief Steve Mazzie retiring in June, 2024.**

One of the longest serving local police chiefs in the area, Steve Mazzie, has announced his intention to retire in 2024.

The announcement was not a surprise, but rather, an indication that he felt his time has come to begin the next chapter in his life.

With a two page resignation letter sent to the mayor, Mazzie thanked the mayor.

Mazzie has served on the Everett Police Department for 32 years with an unblemished record, and along the way, has made many, many friends here in this changing community.

Mazzie is descended from a local family that has served on the Everett Police Department since 1926 when his grandfather Adolph Mazzie, Sr. joined the force. His father, Mazzie’s two brothers and a sister have devoted their lives to the EPD. Mazzie joined up in 1992.

Throughout his tenure, he has been a proactive leader of the department.

“Since then (when he was appointed), the combination of policing and people, has been a labor of love for me,” he wrote in the letter.

He thanked the city government for taking a chance with him, for giving him the opportunity to create a police culture that strives to do the job with compassion, empathy integrity and the utmost care. He also promised to remain on the job until the city has chosen his successor sometime around June, 2024.

“The department is made up of good people committed to doing the right thing for the people of this city,” he wrote.

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Sgt. John Mazzie retires

A class act signs off after 33 years

**Everett Police chief Steve Mazzie and his brother Sgt. John Mazzie.** (Courtesy photo)

By JOSH RESNEK

On July 8, 2020, Sgt. John Mazzie put in his last day as an Everett Police officer.

Thus ended, a 33 year career on a police force that is a far different place than it was when he started out as a much younger man.

It is impossible for the uninitiated to understand just what it is like to sign away your life to serving the city of Everett in 1987, to putting on the blue uniform, and to remain whole and upbeat, proud and with his integrity intact, up to the day of his retirement in the 20th year of the 21st Century.

The revolution in policing continues during this summer of great discontent across the nation.

Sgt. John Mazzie has seen it all. He’s been through the trials and tribulations of being a police officer. He has come to understand the human predicament almost completely.

Mazzie started out as a Field Training Officer in the 1990’s.

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Chief Mazzie proves knowledge is power

Police Chief Steven Mazzie’s appearance at the virtual city council meeting Monday night proved once again that having a humble, smart, savvy longtime police chief who knows what he is doing with the Everett police force is worth its weight in gold.

He answered Councilor at Large Gerly Adrien’s questions about the police department’s various policies regarding report- ing police violence against residents, the use of choke holds (which have been banned since the 1990’s here) and annual training parameters to meet the demands of the new age that appears to be upon us.

Without raising his voice or batting an eyelash, Mazzie answered the councilor’s questions like the consummate professional he has always shown himself to be.

He is a very hip guy, who firmly is in command of a first-rate police force that knows the laws and follows them.

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Everett Over The Past Year

JANUARY – DECEMBER

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WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Gerly Adrian

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By Editorial Staff Leader Herald

She came. She saw. She conquered.

When all was said and done with this year’s municipal election, Gerly Adrien, Councilor at Large elect, topped the ticket sending a shockwave through the usually predictable political circles in this city.

She did it on her own.

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