While there have been no public briefings on the Zachary Lewis murder investigation, East Precinct brass will be on hand Thursday night at the monthly meeting of the East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition. Meanwhile, City Hall wants to know how safe you feel in your neighborhood and has posted a survey to collect your feedback. Details on both opportunities to make yourself heard by SPD, below.
Our next East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition meeting will be held on March 24th, 6 p.m. at the Douglass Truth Library in the Meeting Room.
Our special guests for the evening will be members of the SPD Gang Unit. Bring your questions or community concerns and share them with the officers and a room full of active citizens who care about our community.
The address for Douglass Truth is 2300 East Yesler Way.
Online survey to gather community input on public safety
SEATTLE – Today Mayor Mike McGinn announced a new tool to gather input on public safety from Seattle residents. An online survey, drafted by a team of graduate students at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, will help determine residents’ primary public safety concerns in their own neighborhoods and on public transportation. Previous public safety surveys conducted by the City focused on citywide perceptions.
With this survey, the City hopes to have a snapshot of perceptions of the police and public safety at a neighborhood-by-neighborhood level. The survey also gives residents an opportunity to anonymously offer their opinions on the police and public safety in Seattle — a new option for this kind of survey.
The new survey asks residents their opinion of public safety conditions in Seattle’s urban villages, if there are any urban villages they avoid, and why. The survey also asks for opinions on the Seattle Police Department, focusing on community relations and behavior. These questions are similar to questions the City posed in its biannual survey over the past ten years.
In order to hear input from the entire city, Evans School students will have paper copies delivered to targeted locations, and will actively solicit responses from traditionally underrepresented communities. The City hopes to receive up to 15,000 responses to the survey questions.
Evans School students will do an analysis of initial responses by May and plan to present their analysis to the mayor’s Youth and Families Initiative subcabinet in mid-May.
Please access the survey here: www.seattle.gov/publicsafetysurvey
“City Hall wants to know how safe you feel in your neighborhood and has posted a survey to collect your feedback.”
Which is really just a test of how well you pay attention to the statistics, (unless you have been a victim of a crime – they’ll ignore those replies) because crime statistics reveal how save you are (probability-wise, anyway) but, if you feel safe enough, perhaps it will be safe for City Hall to scale back on urban pacification unit spending.