WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Police to resume regular community meetings

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It’s been many months since the last general community meeting with Southwest Precinct police leadership, under the auspices of the West Seattle Crime Prevention Council. Just got word that the meetings will be revived, starting next month. The anouncement is from the precinct’s Crime Prevention Coordinator Jennifer Danner:

Due to a few significant incidents locally, the SW Precinct would like to offer our community a change to speak directly with our Command Staff, share concerns and ask questions.

We hope you can join us next month for our SW Precinct Crime Prevention Council Meeting.

This meeting will be held on Monday, September 19th, at 6 pm.

Here is our tentative agenda, and meeting link:

6 pm- 6:10 pm: Introductions of SPD Personnel
6:10 pm- 6:20 pm: Crime and Safety Update from Captain Rivera and/or Operations Lieutenant Kim
6:20 pm- 6:50 pm: Q&A
6:50 pm- 7 pm: Closing Comments and Next Meeting’s Date

You can attend online or by phone – the online link via Microsoft Teams is here; the phone number for participating that way is 206-686-8357,,642368087# – phone conference ID 642 368 087#.

Take A Number August 25, 2022 (6:01 pm)

If every person shows up who has had to make numerous non-emergency calls with zero response, it will be a packed room. Like the morning a few weeks back when I was awakened at 4 a.m. by a drugged out man on my planting strip who had no idea who or where he was and a clear danger to himself as morning traffic increased. Before long this self-appointed gardener began tearing up plants out of my neighbor’s yard and still no response—four calls in total and only one meager patrol drive-by where they never even got out of their car to do a wellness check. The dispatcher subsequently claiming it was not the patrol that was called. Riiiiiiight…I support the blue and detest the socially engineered defund mentality. But understaffed or not, the police have clearly decided that their base level of assistance does not include property crime, public safety (beyond weapons and scenes of violence calls) or traffic. The driver screaming down Graham last night easily hitting 60 at 11pm is yet more evidence of that. So yeah, I envision a packed room of Peninsula residents saying, “we’d like a word.” Hey Lisa, will you be there? Because our grievances really should be placed at your feet and those of the other incompetent council members.

Mr J August 25, 2022 (6:26 pm)

Why are you blaming Lisa? This is a tired trope. Years of defunding schools, social services and mental health have led to this problem. The police are unable or unwilling to respond. But It should be noted that as frustrating as property crime is – it’s not the end of the world.

Byron James August 25, 2022 (9:22 pm)

Mr J. That’s nonsense. Schools are receiving record levels of funding. Currently it works out to more than $18,000 per student per year. Most private schools are less than that.

AMC August 27, 2022 (5:28 pm)

🤣🤣🤣 Wow, clearly you have not been or worked or had a student in SPS recently. Would love to see data where you think that figure pencils out.

antifascist August 26, 2022 (7:12 am)

Big of them to “offer” to talk to the community — given that we are their employers — but I’ll pass. Until we get it into our collective understanding that the police (as currently constituted, selected, unionized, trained and tasked to be reactive rather than proactive) do not actually prevent crimes and are not even particularly good at “solving” them, we will be stuck in a perpetual nightmare of frustration, pouring ever more money and effort into begging them to help us when many of them and specifically their leadership are no longer even trying to hide their contempt. Force them out of their vehicles and back onto the beat, focus on visibility to prevent crime rather than on actual number of arrests, root out the white supremacists and bullies and then maybe we can talk …

Srikanth Mukku September 1, 2022 (6:29 am)

I welcome this meeting, would have preferred a more face to face ones we used to have at Ounces instead of this online lip service. Crime( Human Trafficking, Drug Peddling, Prostitution, Murder, Homicide, reckless driving, Squatting by the creek side) has been rampant in the neighborhood lately. Homelessness, is rampant. I also believe I have not seen any of our elected leaders being involved in any townhalls. Why is that ? As stake holders they need to answer to us. When is the last Townhall meeting we had with our leaders. Lest they forget, they cannot hide forever.

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