What needs to happen for Fortson Square to finally become a safe, welcoming place to be? On New Year’s Day, two Pioneer Square residents were brutally attacked after confronting drug dealers blocking the entrance to their apartment building adjacent to Fortson Square (2nd Ave + Yesler)....
Due to Halloween festivities, I didn't come home to Pioneer Square until around 8pm, at which point, huge areas on 2nd and 3rd were cordoned off with police tape, and filled with police officers and SWAT vehicles: [caption id="attachment_3487" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="[excuse the bad quality --...
[Yes, I marked this post as "politics" and "violence"] [caption id="attachment_3236" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="Sign posted by Fenix Tattoo owner in Pioneer Square"][/caption] From the SDOT Parking Group: Parking. Whether it’s on the street or in a garage, it’s something that many people do on a regular basis. While...
From the SPD Blotter On July 12th, at approximately 8:15 PM, a physical fight occurred between two men at a mission in the 300 Block of 2nd Avenue Extension South. (Union Gospel Mission) One of the men grabbed a knife and chased the other man...
Last month, the City of Seattle added crime mapping to their "My Neighborhood Map" on seattle.gov. The "crime types" that are broken out on the map include the following; Crimes Against Persons Drugs + Vice Property Crime/Theft Transportation Miscellaneous (false alarm, disorderly conduct, treaspassing/loitering, etc) By clicking on a symbol, you can...
According to the Seattle Police Department, the Pioneer Square “west” neighborhood, which includes everything west of 2nd Avenue Extension (not including my side of the street) is on par with North Lake Union (Fremont/Wallingford) in terms of “major crimes” – 630-1718 total incidents per square...
The Seattle PI reported yesterday that there is good news for 2009: “The number of homicides and gang-related killings dropped.” 2008 – 28 homicides, 9 gang related 2009 – 21 homicides, 1 “possibly” gang related Through November, Seattle violent crimes were up 12 percent compared with the same...
The police reported that on Saturday morning, a woman was walking around Pioneer Square at 12:15 am with a wad of cash in her hand. Can you guess what happened next? (If you’re about to say that she was trying to buy a kilt, you...
Shots were fired yesterday morning at 2 am outside of a local P2 bar close to Occidental Park (surprise, surprise). The SPD blotter makes it sound like police watched it happen (not sure what the language "on-viewed" means), and then formed a “team” to look...
The Broken Windows theory suggests that a high concentration of small, petty crimes leads to a higher incidence of bigger, nastier crimes. Ben Adler, a Next American City writer, looks at Berlin and Copenhagen and finds the crime trends don't match the idea behind Broken Windows. "Increasingly,...