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The answer to the CD violence will not be found in "supporting our youth" or "marching for peace", as the stupid, motherfucking Gs that committed these crimes don't give a shit about any of that, or perhaps even feed on it.

The answer is to track down the motherfucking Gs that committed the crimes, and locking those fuckers up forever. The way to do that is to rat them out.

These are not strangers.
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b-b-b-b-ut snitches get stitches!
Tis better to wring hands and snatch a few minutes of news time here and there than to fink on a neighbor's boy, or turn in your own kid.

An African-American gentleman whose website I am learning loads from suggests that the younger generation look inward and find that the people they are shooting down are not the real enemy.

I hope the 36-year-old male shot during a robbery makes a full recovery.
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Good thing Dimslee didn't veto the drones and webcams that would help solve these crimes...
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The "Africatown activists" you mention were led by a violent felon whose claim to fame is going to prison after breaking bones in Paul Schell's face. That's really the best example you can come up with of an approach that works?
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"Seattle police officers in the Central District don't live there—he never sees them in plainclothes, he doesn't know any of their families."

No matter what neighborhood you live in in Seattle, you're not likely to encounter many neighborhood cops. That boat sailed decades ago.
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Hamsterdam is in the third season, not the fourth. Excellent article otherwise.
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What the fuck, there was three murders in the CD ???? Why hasn't this been on slog sooner!
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As Hacksaw says, season three... motherfucker.
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Man if *someone* would just drive down to the CD, to the doors of the houses where these poor youths live, the ones who haven't been gentrified yet, and just GIVE THEM JOBS then all this would just go away.

Also, Waid seems like a fine gentleman, but thats probably because he is a naturalized immigrant a demographic thats cleaning up areas like the CD. ( gentrifier )
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What, now they want policing?
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What, a dozen people showed up? Clearly the "community" doesn't give a shit, so why should anyone else?
12
I witnessed a street brawl on Jackson and 12th last week that even had one of the assailants getting hit by a SUV which drove off! As I was calling 911 someone waiting at a red light yelled at me to "stop snitchn'". Seriously what the fuck?
13
I heard about two but not three shootings. Not from Slog, mind you, which seemed much more concerned with inundating us with arts and music happenings. I miss Central District News.
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I live right next to that park, spent a good part of my day there this evening, and had no idea this was happening or I would have been there.

And cop patrols have been crazy frequent since the first shooting on Union, not that that will do anything...

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Two more small corrections: "Seattle police evicted Africatown activists in November who were trying to use the empty structure"

1) The Africatown activists were not evicted. In order to get evicted you have to be a tenant. The Africatown activists were never tenants. They were squatters.

2) The structure was not empty. It had been used as a school, then leased. When the lease was up the tenants moved out. The school district wanted to bring in construction workers to renovate the building immediately after that, but could not because the Africatown activists were occupying the building and refusing to leave.
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"He complained that, as far as he can tell, Seattle police officers in the Central District don't live there—he never sees them in plainclothes, he doesn't know any of their families. "

I'm confused. Do most people know the families of police officers in most cities? I've never heard of this before.
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Why on earth would police officers choose to live in the Central District -- so they and their families could be targeted by the people who commit these regular murders? Yeah, I'd sure want gang members to know exactly where I live.
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85% of Seattle law enforcement do not live in Seattle. They live in rural/outer suburbs that are all or practically all white with few or no minorities (brown, black or red ones), open LGBT communities, and that have more in common with Northern Idaho culturally than the Seattle metropolis.

When you dont live in a city you patrol, you dont see yourself as a community servant, you see yourself as an outside enforcer. Which explains much about the SPOG mindset regarding police abuse, accountability, politics and minorities in Seattle.
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Wow. You made it through a litany of possible causes for the late unpleasantness in the CD without once mentioning gangs.
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Why is it that it's always the fault of the police in this City? If the police enforce the law they're being too aggressive and racist. If they aren't aggressive they're being uncaring and racist. Why not have the communities in Seattle and those who live in them step up and take action for what happens where you live and stop always looking for someone to blame? It is not up to the police department, the City or the government's responsibility to make a community a community. It is up to the people who live there.
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@20

Thanks for your opinion officer.

The criminal acts themselves are not the fault of the police. The facts that

1- Police are careless and alien to the community...they see themselves as enforcers, not community servants (what tax payers pay them to be). Especially in minority neighborhoods. They dont even live in the city proper.

2- Theres nothing like a bit of humanitarianism and human empathy to help with community relations. And the SPD are in the shits as far as community relations with the entire city, especially minority communities like CD.

3- If you see your job, as a cop, to prevent crime, you are going to interact positively with the communities you patrol. You need the locals to do your job.

If you see your job as 'finding badguys to put in jail' (with 'badguys' stretching the gamut from 'people committing crimes' to 'people you dont like/give you lip' to 'people whos skin color you associate with crime, regardless of whether it has occured), you are going to procede as the SPD has with CD (and with South Seattle and even the U district, though for different reasons there).

"Eh, just a bunch of darkies killing each other. Call us when someone important :cough cough white or rich cough couch: gets hurt. Well do a press conference."
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@20

Also, you can enforce the law without being racist. In fact, its illegal to be racist in enforcing the law in WA. (RCW 43.101.410)

I see the problem to this entire kerfuffle. At some point, the SPD conflated being violent, unaccountable racist bullies with "enforcing the law". Someone just needed to tell you guys that enforcing the law and being racist/treating people differently because of their race = mutually exclusive.

Harassing/beating/making a false report for/lying in reports/hiding video/questionably shooting just 1 innocent person because they were black or brown or red has a far worst effect than arresting or even shooting 20 people actually committing a crime. Think about that.
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The Wire?!?!?! You actually used a plot line from a FICTIONAL TV SHOW to bolster your naive idealistic white guilt ideology? Wow you really just can't make this shit up
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Stop locking up all the OG's and many this generation will have some guidance and direction. Real talk.
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Stop locking up all the OG's and maby this generation will have some guidance and direction. Real talk.
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"Punishing the Poor" by Loic Wacquant. C'mon, City of Seattle six-figure salaries. Read it.
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Last Friday there where two cars running down MLK with the one guy shooting a small hand gun at the other car. Interesting thing was cop in his car went right passed them, I'm still surprised he couldn't see the flashes from the gun and didn't turn around and pursue the cars.

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