Help the young, stop the crimes
The Seattle Times
Crime wave has some Southeast Seattle residents looking to police for solutions that may lie elsewhere. No comments have been posted to this article. Few things a community deals with strike the gut quite as hard as crime. I don't mean white-collar …

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

The Seattle Times

Seattle finds money to resume precinct liaisons' anti-crime fight
The Seattle Times
By Lynn Thompson Beginning in mid-February, four assistant city attorneys will begin working in Seattle's five police precincts to help neighborhoods address public-safety issues and advise police on emerging problems around areas such as nightlife, …

and more »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

New York Times (blog)

What Start-Ups Can Learn From a Crime Boss
New York Times (blog)
The 29-year-old Seattle techie recently penned a tale of unlikely inspiration called “Everything I need to know about start-ups, I learned from a crime boss.” The short manifesto, published at GigaOm, probed the underbelly of leadership and set readers …

and more »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

DOJ: No charges in death of Seattle woodcarver
Native Times
16 January 2012 AP SEATTLE (AP) – No criminal charges will be filed against a former Seattle police officer who shot and killed a Native American woodcarver while on duty in 2010, the US Justice Department said Friday. John T. Williams had just crossed …

and more »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

NewsNet5.com

Seattle police far from alone in excessive-force crackdown
The Seattle Times
Going back just 15 years, she noted that President Clinton invested billions in local law enforcement to fight urban crime and the crack-cocaine epidemic. The flow of money continued through the post-9/11 Bush administration, which granted …
Ohio Police Force Pledges ReformMain Justice

all 48 news articles »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

Weekend Preview: Seattle Juggling Festival
The Seattle Times
"Contraband": Mark Wahlberg stars, along with Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Foster, in this crime thriller about an ex-criminal forced back into a life of crime. It has midnight previews on Thursday, and opens at several theaters on Friday. …

and more »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

City Attorney's Office to go after johns
The Seattle Times (blog)
Seattle Community Court allows non-violent offenders to avoid criminal sentencing if they agree to participate in programs aimed at addressing the root causes of their crime, including chemical dependency, education, unemployment and homelessness. …

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

After observing police, Seattle council member calls for new approach
The Seattle Times
In a parting essay as chair of the Seattle City Council's public-safety committee, Tim Burgess calls for fundamental changes to city policing. By Steve Miletich Interesting how Burgess talks about fighting crime, but not one word about the elephant. …
Burgess: "Deep, fundamental reform" needed at SPDSeattle Post Intelligencer
Best ways to prevent crime? Councilmember's 'policy essay'West Seattle Blog (blog)

all 7 news articles »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery
The Seattle Times
… rich context and detail to illuminate the era's dramatic changes. The result is as swift and absorbing as the most gripping suspense novel. Adam Woog's column on crime and mystery fiction appears on the second Sunday of the month in The Seattle Times.

and more »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News

Interpreters play bigger role in local courts
The Seattle Times
… and his "crazy" and "possessed" cellmates had left him confused and sleep-deprived when he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder with a firearm and conspiracy to commit organized crime. But Nguyen, the 44-year-old leader of Young Seattle Boyz, …

and more »

View full post on seattle crime – Google News