West Seattle Crime Watch: Another Fairmount Park burglary

Just got a call about police activity outside shuttered Fairmount Park Elementary (map). Scanner traffic confirms, police are investigating a burglary, apparently involving broken windows, which was the method of entry in previous break-ins, including this one four weeks ago. The school’s been closed for almost two years, but is being reopened for summer school this year, as we first reported here a month ago. As for tonight’s break-in, sounds like police have just finished searching the building but whoever broke in is no longer inside. (9:09 pm side note – We’ve also received a tip about police activity near Schmitz Park Elementary; haven’t heard yet what that’s about, however.)

Mustafa May 11, 2009 (12:42 pm)

Sometimes kids can’t get enough of school. Should that really be a crime? Next thing they’ll let out tear gas on college campuses. They do that in China, you know. Hey, welcome to West Seattle, a suburb of China.

Kerry Goodwin May 12, 2009 (10:02 am)

I don’t know why Seattle School district conrtinues to allow these break-ins to continue. I havwe approached them multiple times with a proven solution. My soloution has resulted in the arrest of 150 perpetrators in 2008. If anybody out there in cyberspace has any influence, perhaps you could get them to reconsider. I will even install a system with no up-front costs, the district can try it for 6-months if it doesn’t prove effective I will remove it and they don’t pat for the install.

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