Crips, Bloods, and Commuters: Seattle Gang Territory Mapped on Google
Seattle Weekly (blog)
Proving once and for all that the Internet really does know everything, there is a Google map of Seattle gang territory. The map was produced by Northwest Gangs, a website that documents gang graffiti across the region and tracks gang-related crime.

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Tim Burgess' Plan for Fighting Crime New York-Style
Seattle Weekly (blog)
Worse, Seattle's per capita figure for property crimes–5824 per 100000– is more than three times larger than that of New York. What does this mean? It's not that Seattle's crime rate is out of control. City-wide, major crime is way down from what it …

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City Hall's Unlikely Model for Fighting Crime
Seattle Weekly (blog)
4 2012 at 7:00 AM ?Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith says the city has a model for cleaning up crime along downtown's Third Avenue. That model, he told The Seattle Times a few days ago, is Belltown. Belltown? Really? We're talking about a neighborhood so …

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Road Diets, Road Kill?
Seattle Weekly
The concern is heightened by a recent crime spurt in South Seattle, which has seen a spate of muggings and assaults, including one leading to the death of gay Filipino hairdresser Danny Vega. South Precinct Captain Mike Nolan says he also expressed …

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A timeline of events that led to the DOJ's scalding review of Seattle's police.
Seattle Weekly
June 14, 2010: Seattle Police Officer Ian Walsh sees a 17-year-old black teen jaywalking. He confronts her about the petty crime and goes to grab her arm. A struggle ensues, then Walsh punches the girl in the face. The incident is captured on video, …

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Road Diet's Latest Critics
Seattle Weekly (blog)
The concern is heightened by a recent crime spurt in South Seattle, which has seen a spate of muggings and assaults, including one leading to the death of gay Filipino hairdresser Danny Vegas. South Precinct Captain Mike Nolan says he expressed concern …

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Dirty Diaper Killer Nets 20 Years for Awful Crime
Seattle Weekly (blog)
The crime happened on Nov. 21, 2010 when Wallace was watching 2-year-old Purpose Goldsmith, his girlfriend's daughter, while her mom was at work. At one point the little girl soiled her diaper–as two-year-olds are wont to do–and Wallace became so …

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Israeli 'War Crimes' Ad War Continues
Seattle Weekly (blog)
After Metro banned the ads, the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign filed a lawsuit arguing that its First Amendment rights were violated by the decision to drop the ads. But a federal judge cited the numerous threats to Metro as reason enough for the …

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True Crime and Mobile Gardens
Seattle Weekly
Back home in Seattle, however, the Local Sightings Film Festival must be content with less splashy fare—shorts, docs, and features later bound for public TV, Hulu, YouTube, and community screenings in church basements. That's not a putdown, …

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The Great Uncrowding
Monterey County Weekly
Klaas' case led to the conviction of Richard Allen Davis, who'd committed multiple serious crimes before his most infamous crime. “It may take some seminal event or two to change and refocus this new realignment approach, and get people to ask, …

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