Police Memo: 54 People Responsible For More Than 2700 Police Contacts In Belltown

Contacted on average more than 50 times, not arrested more than 50 times…

Doesn’t this state have a three-strikes law?

Doesn’t this state have a three-strikes law?

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still, how many times were you contacted in the past year by police?  Just because they weren’t arrested doesn’t mean they weren’t doing something to either draw attention to themselves or cause a citizen to point the police in their direction.  This memo really spells out what Belltown is dealing with.

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still, how many times were you contacted in the past year by police?  Just because they weren’t arrested doesn’t mean they weren’t doing something to either draw attention to themselves or cause a citizen to point the police in their direction.  This memo really spells out what Belltown is dealing with.

More clear and responsible journalism might be wanted here. Not just differentiating on the Contacting vs Arresting issue but to take care not to incite hatred against people whose lives are already effed up enough without us knowing whether they’re working on their challenges. Also because due to the title, I had thought at first there were a handful of people calling the cops repeatedly.

And now thinking about them both I’m wondering where all these calls on this handful of people are coming *from*…

‘draw attention to themselves’ is kinda victim blamy dont you think? or is it that once someone has been judged guilty they no longer have the right of innocent until? Man, sounds like a harsh heart to carry around.

Time to get a diversion task force in here to divert these crimes to other parts of the city!

Well, I learned something. VUSCA is an acronym for violation of the uniform controlled substances act.

Well, I learned something. VUSCA is an acronym for violation of the uniform controlled substances act.

16.24 convictions per person, 30% of which were felony convictions

Lol! Nice try, but you might want to look up what a “diversion program” does…

This is a really confusing post.

And “assisted living” usually means private housing for older people.  Maybe the police don’t know that.  I doubt if 80-year-olds are on this supposed list. 

“The memo notes the “majority on this list live in assisted living, shelters or jail alternative housing” in Belltown.”

I’m as progressive as they come, but this isn’t rocket science. Show me a successful downtown (Chicago, NYC) and I’ll show you a downtown that isn’t full of shelters, clinics, missions and “jail alternative housing.” Maintain a commitment to social justice, but disperse social services equitably throughout the city instead of concentrating them in the CBD. At least thin the number of services from the waterfront to I-5 and from Denny to Yesler. The office, retail, and housing boom would help all city coffers, including those targeted toward assisting this particular population.

“The memo notes the “majority on this list live in assisted living, shelters or jail alternative housing” in Belltown.”

I’m as progressive as they come, but this isn’t rocket science. Show me a successful downtown (Chicago, NYC) and I’ll show you a downtown that isn’t full of shelters, clinics, missions and “jail alternative housing.” Maintain a commitment to social justice, but disperse social services equitably throughout the city instead of concentrating them in the CBD. At least thin the number of services from the waterfront to I-5 and from Denny to Yesler. The office, retail, and housing boom would help all city coffers, including those targeted toward assisting this particular population.

It’s a waste of time to bother these lowlife types.  what are you going to do? move them to capitol hill? less complaints in belltown then and more complaints from poorer people on capitol hill? no one is being helped here. Nothing is being improved. This is just $$$$ political spenders looking for a way to disguise a problem under their watch.

It’s a waste of time to bother these lowlife types.  what are you going to do? move them to capitol hill? less complaints in belltown then and more complaints from poorer people on capitol hill? no one is being helped here. Nothing is being improved. This is just $$$$ political spenders looking for a way to disguise a problem under their watch.

Stick ‘em south of the stadiums.

Wonder if the 80/20 rule applies here?

For instance, what are the general statistics for an “average” criminal?

What are the average number of contacts (you say 50.07 PER PERSON for these Super Criminals).

I believe those 54 people are what we call “Tim Harris’s constituency. The most protected class in Seattle.

“victim blamy”

Thanks for the laugh.

Oh this sounds swell — let’s move them to the residential neighborhoods and let the neighborhoods fend for themselves.  They are moving a whole slew of these cronic drunks, drug addicts and sex offenders to the heart of Ballard — but they aren’t increasing the police at all.  So, you want to move the problems outside of downtown Seattle, you better be prepared to give up your police and fire services too.

Hate to tell you Norge but you have a very small population of the above when compared to South Seattle and the CD.  Time to take your share.

Can’t we move them to the Eastside?

you clearly have not walked around downtown Chicago or NYC

you clearly have not walked around downtown Chicago or NYC

Wrong ding-dong. Born-and-raised in Chicago proper, worked across the street from the Sears Tower for years. Thanks for playing though.

I think you’re right about dispersing the services but the crime in Seattle is laughable compared to Chicago. I just left Chicago after seven years and I now live in Belltown. Belltown is up and coming just like uptown in Chicago. Just give it time and all those suburban kids and condos will push out the bad elements. At some point those services won’t be able to keep up with the rising rent and they’ll be gone too. Just like the Cabrini Green housing projects.

Completely concur about overall crime. But the issue here is that we’re not talking about a neighborhood like Uptown, which is nestled amid other already successful neighborhoods miles from the downtown core. Belltown, on the other hand, abuts the CBD, Seattle Center, and the waterfront/sculpture park/Pike Place. Worse, the problems that afflict it as a neighborhood afflict all of downtown Seattle. A better analogy would be if the Gold Coast, River North, the Mag Mile, and the Loop were full of substance abuse clinics, transient housing, and missions.

And Cabrini as an example rather proves my point more than yours. It fell not from gradual market-driven gentrification, but thanks to a concrete political decision to decentralize and disperse subsidized housing—which is exactly the kind of thing I’m advocating.

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