The Seattle Police Department and researchers from Seattle University will begin this year’s efforts to measure and understand neighborhood public safety concerns across the city with a “Community-Police Dialogue” focused on the East Precinct covering Capitol Hill and the Central District.
Next Monday’s “SPD Micro-Community Policing Plans Community-Police Dialogue” online meeting will discuss the precinct area’s results from the 2024 Seattle Public Safety Survey while also providing time for attendees to discuss “current public safety concerns.”
CHS reported here on the latest results for the annual Seattle U-headed research process. The 2024 results steered far from worries about theft, assaults, and burglaries. Traffic safety was identified by East Precinct respondents as the number one public safety threat in their area of the city, according to the latest annual SPD Micro-Community Policing Plans survey.
Early 2025 crime trends show property crimes did not dip in the East Precinct in January, February, and March like they did in other parts of Seattle including a 26% drop in the North Precinct, a 25% drop in the South, and 30% in the Southwest. Downtown’s West Precinct was down 7% — right around the East Precinct’s modest dip. Meanwhile East Precinct violent crime totals including a leap in reported sexual assaults were up in the first three months of 2025.
Organizers say community members and Seattle Police personnel including recruits, officers, command staff, crime prevention coordinators, community service officers, and administrative professionals are invited to attend Monday’s East Precinct meeting.
You can learn more and sign up here to take part in Monday, May 12th session.
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too many naked people on a nude beach for one thing! outrageous!
seriously though I do wonder how much could be accomplished by a handful of cops just walking around the neighborhood. Lot of drugs being used at bus stops, for example… there’s no solution for the overall drug epidemic but at the very least we have to make city facilities like bus stop benches and parks safe for people to use. I know that idea is being used to justify camp clearances too though. But there’s some serious shit going down around here that is causing real problems, not just “I would prefer not to see homeless people in my neighbordhood” type problems.
Dear Cops, respectfully, leave us alone