After a recent shooting incident at a known drug/party house over in W. Seattle I'm afraid my ability to resist writing the Editor grew a bit...strained. Thus, below...
One option is to team up with neighbors and sign a contract with a local security service (http://www.centralprotection.com/, for example) to provide a much heavier visible patrol presence in your neighborhood until such time as the threat abates.
The Seattle Police are largely an exceptionally professional group of men and women deeply understaffed and under supported by a Mayor and City Council that would rather spend limited resources on gun control and greening the city than on nuts and bolts public safety issues.
This has reduced the professionals of the Seattle Police to an ever more reactive role, rushing from crisis to crisis. Without the officers necessary to perform preventative patrol and (outside of high-kvetching areas) and officer-intensive community contact duties (foot patrol, horse patrol, bicycle patrol) on a routine basis, we can only expect more of the same.
Until such time as we remove Nickels and his cronies from office, our best hope rests in banding together to hire private security if we want some kind of preventative patrol...and if we're concerned about personal safety, to explore the options lawfully available to us. For that last I recommend Gila Hayes out at SFA 360-978-6100...
I agree with the post above. We should contract www.centralprotection.com security services and I would sure sleep better at night knowing that security is patrolling the area.
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