There were 911 reports of gunfire and a person shouting they had been shot but police found no victims in a Sunday night incident near 10th and John.
Callers reported the gunfire and shouting in an altercation reported just after 11 PM Sunday. Arriving police found the parties in the dispute and located a .45 caliber handgun in one of their vehicles. At least one shell casing was located nearby on the northeast corner of 10th and John, according to East Precinct radio updates.
Police reported they were in contact with the belligerents and said there were no reported injuries at the scene.
No immediate arrests were reported.
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Why would they not arrest people if shots were fired
Welp, there was this little matter of Defunding Police. Quite a few of us here in D3 were vocal about supporting it, sometimes by heckling police any time they show up to do their jobs. As a result morale is low and police staffing is hundreds below target staffing numbers.
If you weren’t among the many making it be well known that you wanted to defund police .. congratulations. But too many of our neighbors did want exactly that and made it very well known.
And this kind of bare-bones police response, or lack thereof, is the result.
More people getting shot on a normal weekend evening in the most popular areas of Capitol Hill (this is the light rail station). We’re all just accepting it now and finding ways to rationalize it. Can’t even go out in Capitol Hill any more without having to worry about getting shot.
Hyperbole much? Just for reference, there were 38 shooting deaths in Seattle in 2022 and 310 deaths of unhoused people, which one are people more willing to rationalize and ignore? Most of those deaths are easily avoidable if we had well funded programs following best practices to get people off the street and into quality housing and medical care. Doing this would significantly reduce the drug market that is causing most of the gun violence.
The unhoused people aren’t being ignored. They are being loved to death by backward policies driven by left wing ideological extremism: 1) Giving severely drug addicted and mentally ill people agency to make there own decision regardless of personal and societal consequences; 2) allowing and enabling open drug use; 3) establishing a right to camp out in the elements virtually anywhere rather than go to a congregate shelter even when the encampments become dangerous and violent. 4) funneling billions into homeless aid organizations with out measuring and demanding performance and accountability. Lastly is is important to point out the obvious. These policies attract more homeless people to Seattle, so of course the number of deaths will go up.
It was right-wing ideological extremism that got us into this mess. Since Reagan cut federal mental health funding we’ve forced already underfunded institutions to stretch even thinner for a long time, to the point that we now have cops doing a lot of the interactions after it’s gotten to an outrageous level. In this time there have been many efforts to raise revenue for the funding of basic services like healthcare and housing that continue to be fought by interests connected to the richest people and companies in our state. Jeff Bezos is spending half a billion on a yacht and offered to pay for the partial (dis/re)assembly of a historical bridge to move it, meanwhile there are elementary schools in Seattle with GoFundMe fundraising for whiteboards. The fact the right wing extremist ideologies of trickle up economics and the gutting of social services continues to be accepted as status quo despite decades of evidence now that they are terrible policies is what is driving this problem.
You are really still blaming a law signed by Reagan and championed by the ACLU one year after Mount St Helens erupted for the current Seattle sh*tshow?
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I knew I heard gunshots! I was searching SPD’s Twitter feed and Seattle 911 to confirm, then scoured the news, but couldn’t find any coverage of it. I also waited to see if I heard any sirens but when there were none, I assumed it may have been fireworks. There were quite a few shots all in a row, and it sounded like an automatic weapon.