Seattlest: Do You Know Where Your Community Police Team Is?

sevenless

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:36:32 -0800

In the past 5 years or so I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen a police car on the neighborhood streets where I live in Wallingford. Still, I would be more than willing to believe that the Seattle police are short handed and car break-ins are a pretty low priority. But come on, the community officer's lack of even making the smallest effort to even pretend to care is really infuriating. I also love the SPD's advice to the Wallyhood commenter who found their GPS on Craigslist: SPD: "Just arrange to meet with them and then call 911 right then if it's your stuff. 90% of the time they'll just run away." So a 10% chance of a meth head thief stabbing/shooting/otherwise attacking you is, I don't know, acceptable risk? Brilliant idea there.

Audrey

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:19:56 -0800

Duly corrected - thanks!

Convictus

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:31:11 -0800

I have noticed more than once that links to the seattle times are in the form of http://www. This gives dead links to opendns users for seattletimes.nwsource.com on deep links and requires that I copy link location and paste to edit it each time so I can read the article. Example below this is bad http://www.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009031994_webcarthefts13m.html this is good. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009031994_webcarthefts13m.html