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City Home Burglaries—One of the Most Difficult Crimes to Solve—Are on the Rise
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Jonah Spangenthal-Lee reports:
In Seattle, the North Precinct and Southwest Precinct are being hit hardest. In West Seattle, there were 231 burglaries in the first four months of 2008 and 344 in the first four months of 2009—nearly a 50 percent increase. Documents provided by the King County Prosecutor's Office show burglary cases were up nearly 18 percent in Bellevue, almost 21 percent in Des Moines, and 25 percent in Tukwila in 2008 over the previous year. (Numbers from the county for 2009 aren't available yet.)"A very small number of offenders are responsible for the vast majority of burglaries," says King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, who estimates that about 150 people are responsible for the majority of the 15,565 reported burglaries in the county in 2008. Satterberg says of those 15,565 burglaries, prosecutors only filed 675 cases. Prosecutors say that's how many cases were solved by detectives.
The full story is HERE.
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