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Cap Hill Drug Market Initiative: Not what some of us might hope it is

No, it’s not a new neighborhood “shop local” initiative. The Drug Market Initiative is a pilot program aimed at reducing chronic street-level drug dealing that was rolled out by the East Precinct last week at a joint meeting with the African American Advisory Council at the Langston Hughes Cultural Center.  After an 1,800 household survey and multiple public comment meetings, the East Precinct is going forward with what they’re calling an innovative new approach to eliminating drug activity in our neighborhoods.

The concept comes pre-tested since the SPD borrowed the idea from a similar program in High Point, Carolina. The idea: infiltrate neighborhood drug markets (as identified by neighborhood calls and complaints), gather information, call in low-risk dealers and give them a chance to turn their life around (and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law if they don’t), prosecute high-risk dealers on a number of counts in a coordinated effort between all levels of law enforcement. 

The difference between what the SPD does now and what the East Precinct would try under the DMI is three-fold:

  1. Currently, the police simply arrest and prosecute low-level drug dealers, rather than give them a chance to stop dealing and utilize treatment and support programs. 
  2. Also, high-risk drug dealers are usually only prosecuted on a single case by a single law enforcement agency, rather than under multiple cases in a coordinated effort by all levels of law enforcement. 
  3. Finally, the East Precinct emphasizes the importance of the role the community takes in identifying drug market locations and working with low-level dealers to walk away from their life of crime.

Will it work? What do you think?  The SPD wants to know, so they’ve provided two easy ways to give them a piece of your mind. The first is a survey which you can receive by emailing [email protected] or [email protected]. The second is (surprise!) a community meeting this Thursday:

Community Drug Market Initiative Meeting
Thursday, July 23rd
@ Seattle Neighborhood Group
1810 E. Yesler Way (98122)

For more information on this meeting or the DMI in general, the person to contact is the lovely Sita DeGuilio Das ([email protected]).

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