Thursday, July 23, 2009
Crime Seattle's Violent Week
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Post by news intern Alexander P. Brown
Of the 11 homicides in Seattle this year, one-quarter of them occurred in the last five days.
Last night around 8:30 p.m. a 17-year-old boy was shot in the head by an acquaintance on the 700 block of Airport Way S, according to the Seattle Police Department's Blotter. Police determined that the victim and the 19-year-old suspect had an argument at a park on the shore of Lake Washington earlier that day. After the argument, the soon-to-be-victim was driving down the street with a group a friends—past the other man's house—when the man ran out of his home with an assault rifle and shot once at the victim once in the head, killing him, and ran back into the house. Officers responded to the scene and called out a SWAT team upon receiving information the suspect was still in the house (his mother's house). But after two hours of attempted negotiation, SWAT officers entered the house to discover that the suspect had fled. Police received a tip later that night that the suspect was in a house in South Seattle near SW Andover St. and Delridge Way SW., where officers arrested the man at around 6:30 a.m. Thursday without incident.
On Wednesday at around 12:30 a.m. police were called out to a shooting in the area know as "The Jungle," a homeless encampment on the 1700 block of Airport Way S. under I-5. When officers arrived, SPD Blotter reports, they found a homeless man dead from a single gunshot wound to the stomach. Officers interviewed members of the surrounding camps but couldn't get a description of the suspect.
Garrett McCulloch and Eli Sanders reported on the tragic home invasion that left one woman dead and another badly injured in the South Park neighborhood on Sunday. Police are still asking for assistance for any information on the suspect.
Even so, SPD spokesman Jeff Kappel says crime is at a 41 year low (which was also reported by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee in our June 30 issue). Officer Kappel further states "our homicides are way down from last year, and if you look at the history of Seattle violent crime is way down from the eighties and nineties."
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Let's build a monorail to alleviate the crime.
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In Chicago, we had 199 through LAST week, and have had a handful already this week.
Seattle population: ~600,000
Chicago population: ~2,900,000
5 times the people, almost 19 times the homicides.
Holy crap.
These stories are tragedies, but that lower crime rate in the midst of economic crisis is something to celebrate.
FWIW, in July of 2008, Chicago had almost 70 homicides. JUST.IN.JULY.
Stunned.
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This, of course, also explains WHY everyone is so liberal!
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You meant to say "people like me think there aren't a lot of black people in Seattle".
You REALLY need to get out.
Hint, go ride the light rail and actually walk around in the neighborhoods.
Do the same in West Seattle.
Surprise! Lots of black people!
(frickin white enviro activist people who never leave their neighborhoods ...)
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Of course, we have a lot of Asians, but a lot of white guys like to date Asian girls, so that we can look liberal and have women who actually look like women not lumberjacks.
Seattle is 10.0% black. San Francisco is 7.3% black but has twice the homicide rate per capita. Los Angeles is 9.9% black but has a gajillion times the homicide rate per capita. San Diego is 7.6% black, same story. Denver is almost the exact same size as Seattle, is 11.1% black, but has had 25 homicides this year (over twice as many). Portland is 7.9% black, is smaller than Seattle, but has also had 11 homicides this year.
Meanwhile, of the three homicides in Seattle the past week, one of them was by a stupid white man (the only one caught), one was a black man, one unknown.
The only common denominator amongst homicide perpetrators is that they are men over 95% of the time. Minorities are convicted more often, white people get plea deals or are found not guilty more often.
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http://www.seattle.gov/oir/datasheet/dem…
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(I know I should indulge Stupid White Man, but he's so cute.....)
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And the reason we don't "have black people" is that most black people here are multi-ethnic and show up in the multi-racial category.
Frickin moron.
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Well that's why they call it 'black on black' crime honey.
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As for the statistical argument, hooray for yet another official using a statistical technicality to dodge the issue. Because nobody ever manipulates statistics for their own personal gain.
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