Thanks to a reader for this picture of the scene
One person was reported shot in the chest and police were searching for a white Dodge Charger after a shooting Thursday night outside the QFC near the Chipotle at the troubled corner of Pike and Broadway.
Police and Seattle Fire were called to gunshots in the area reported just after 8 PM and found a victim down with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.
UPDATE: A second victim has been reported at Harborview.
UPDATE x2: SPD reports the victim found down on Broadway is dead and the circumstances leading up to the shooting are under investigation.
Police report the second victim arrived at the hospital in serious but stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg.
According to East Precinct radio updates, police were looking for the Charger carrying at least two masked subjects last seen headed west on Union.
Police recovered video from a witness showing the assailants on foot at the time of the shooting.
Thanks to a CHS reader for this photo showing QFC shoppers stuck inside the store during the lockdown
The QFC was locked down during the emergency response. A bullet fragment was reportedly found inside Chipotle.
The gun violence follows a deadly shooting last month nearby at 10th and Pike.
The area around the Harvard Market shopping center has been identified by police as one of the most troubled areas in the city with an unfortunate confluence of petty crime and drug abuse. The Capitol Hill “Stay Out of Drug Area” that includes the corner now leads the city in banishment orders.
The Capitol Hill SODA is part of what District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth has said will be multiple efforts to address crime, drug use, and homelessness around the Broadway and Pike/Pine core including investments “reinvigorating” Cal Anderson Park.
In August, the City Council approved a new $400,000 closed circuit camera system to be deployed around Pike/Pine as part of the Seattle Police Department Real Time Crime Center.
Thursday night, RTCC updates were providing police with information on where the possible suspect vehicle had been spotted earlier in the day across the city.
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This. Is. Ri. Diculous.
Absolutely no excuse for this corner to go on like this. There are no words.
Shame on the mayor, council, and SPD for allowing the continued tomfoolery at this corner. Today there was open drug use, prostitution and lord knows what else. Good. Lord. You can’t even go get a loaf of bread.
Caring about non-trafficking sex work in 2025 is so lame
Picking out inconsequential details when someone was just murdered is lamer. A lot lamer.
Not if they were involved in the shooting
Yes, that has nothing to do with the shooting. It’s like saying race is the reason or something stupid.
yes fen user is definitely a protected class
Oh do you have the facts then. Let SPD know.
There was prostitution in front of the Broadway and Pike QFC? Huh.
Yeah of all the issues in the neighborhood, prostitution really isn’t one, as far as I can tell
This corners becoming much worse than 3rd and Pike. Or is it Pine? I wish my guys from the Union Street Hustlers would stop all this violence and work on getting all this Seattle money!
It’s bad but not nearly to the level of 3rd and Pine. You’d need to add 25 fentanyl addicts in various states of being bent over all loitering around or sprawled out to get it to 3rd and Pine level madness but it’s close.
You’re both extremely hyperbolic and silly
yeah nothing to see here move along, just a murder or two
Oohhh… could we get the Hell’s Angels at the Shell station? That would be a spicy twist.
What a disgrace. As a long time resident this continued crime is really scary and disappointing. It’s starting to feeling like “how low can we go?” Can a mobile precinct be stationed on the corner 24/7? At least a parked cop car with the lights on? Better than nothing.
The mayor will not arrest for public drug use and get the addicts into long term treatment. The City Council will not force the Mayor to allow SPD to arrest. Katie Wilson will not be better. We need City Council members who will force the Mayor to arrest by amending the public drug use law and building a temporary jail and temporary addiction treatment center run by the city. We can do this and it’s cheaper than what we do now. Rachael Savage is a Capitol Hill business owner running for Seattle City Council to represent Capitol Hill and all the city neighborhoods.
Katie Wilson isn’t yet mayor yet you’re already claiming she will not be better. Of course you’re stating this in relation to your public policy desires, but even in that limited context, not even giving a potential mayor a chance to succeed reveals a lot about your view of the world.
Katie Wilson, has never said a word about breaking up the open drug markets by arresting for public drug use, never posted about it on her website or social media. The intelligent vote for what the candidate actually stands for publicly and out loud. The “progressives”, including Harrell do not believe in arresting for crime. Hard but simple truth.
Harrell ran explicitly on not being a progressive and wanting more drug arrests… Are we better off?
well he didn’t actually make any drug arrests…so…
I agree with everything you say and will vote for Rachael. Too bad we live in a city where people vote reflexively for the most “progressive” candidate regardless of reality.
sadly, with the Socialist campaigns exclusively funded by the ‘Democracy Vouchers’ via property tax, those are the only candidates we get. Their bios all read exactly the same with ‘muh Trump’ and ‘muh equity’, and it really just comes down to which gender or race of the candidate you want to select. And sadly, the same crowd that wants ‘affordable housing’ increased the cost of living by increasing the property tax this year to funnel even more money to Socialist candidates.
Listen Joe…You, nor your wife knows jack squat about the issues. NONE! So your opinion is just that.
Second…
It’s GANG RELATED!
Someone is on someone’s turf Joe. Not some random deal. This is a turf war Joe. NOTHING you’ve ever said has identified the issue. You simply parrot Jail/treatment tropes that may or may not work. But in fact will do NOTHING to solve the deeper problem of a turf war amongst gangs. Not a single notion. You have none that’s why.
Get into your MAGA lane and grift. But don’t pretend to be some policy savant. Because you are not.
You are grifters selling snake oil to the ignorant.
Get a life.
All wrong as always. Dealers operate where addicts are plentiful. No Housing First buildings-No open drug markets on Broadway. Lived here long enough to know that connection is true. There are already developed and obvious ways to shut down these markets and they start with arrest.
Just wait till that ‘Affordable Housing’ project gets built. It’ll be Cabrini Green 2.0
is everyone who disagrees with you “MAGA”, Smooth?
E Trox, not necessarily the case but most centrist libs identify with MAGA more than they’d lead on
Well I suppose if the “non MAGA” purity test includes: not wanting fenty smokers on/in publicly accessible spaces, encampments in publicly accessible areas, addressing and responding to resource inequitable populations,
…. and voting to approve School, Health Support, Parks, Transit, Housing, and EMS levies? Yeah, MAGA here.
MAGA for being tired of fenty bringing a kid to a public library or doing a sweep for needless/other at a playground. Enjoy the flight and blight.
Nobody wants any of that. HellOH?
What’s wrong with you MAGA lite types? Nobody wants that. Yet to justify your positions on everything? You make up stuff and shove it down the “libs” throats. And say “See?” Very clever debate tactic *yawn*
Critical thinking, or the lack there of, seems to be the deciding factor between sane critical thinking and a cult.
Yep, that IS maga, you would love maga. Saying “fenty” and not having compassion makes you side closer to them than lefitsts. Make the switch, wear the hat! Unless you’re a coward!
That’s because MAGA is right + center, you’re on the left
Rachel Savage is MAGA genius.
I was not talking to you. Now you look stupid. Stay focused and get some comprehension and critical thinking from the wizard when you see him.
Typical smooth–quick to resort to insults when the going gets tough.
Also, what the heck does that even mean, lol?
Just correcting you. I know that results in some less than witty comeback but, it’s the truth. You say it’s an insult? lolol..>Nope…Not the right werd.
What’s with the stupid LOL? Why must you use that LOL when something is not funny? You should be ashamed being the only one laughing.
it is ugly to see, but I have to I agree with this person, there is a turf war it’s about money it’s about influence and etc..
Lets get brutally real.
I don’t want to Trump people coming in. There’s reasons why we need to deal with things locally before somebody else does.
Fuck that, She should run in Idaho, where she would fit right in with the other republicans.
Thank you for trying to get free advertising for your wife…the lady who was scared of a black guy eating his lunch.
Wellll…We don’t know for sure what the lady was eating.
Coulda been the wings of baby birds, raw, straight from a nest.
I believe it is now allowed for the SPD to arrest drug dealers and users, but they are not doing it. The reason that they were previously prohibited from arresting is that there was not enough capacity at the jail for temporarily detaining them (prior to diversion or charging). Someone can correct me if this is not accurate.
Now King County and Seattle are locating a huge regional crisis care center on Broadway and Union, so unfortunately it is going to get worse. The powers that be have decided to make Capitol Hill the dumping ground. Unless people speak up and organize to advocate for Capitol Hill, I think the downward spiral will continue.
In what backward universe is a “huge regional crisis care center”
where it’s geographically needed seen as a negative? Ours I guess. So everything is fine now and empathy and social services will hurt the situation? What a disingenuous position.
Also people who have the money can have access to those services just not at a stigmatized location. There is so much that goes on behind closed doors from drug use and dealing to white-collar crime. where is the outrage against that?
Ya gotta be smarter to say what you said. They have no clue why drugs happen. Violence happens. They do not live in the real world.
Ah progressivism…
It’s time the city start enforcing laws at this corner. What happened to no loitering? There’s too many drug users, pan handlers just allowed to flop down anywhere on the sidewalk in between their trips into QFC to try and shoplift. This creates a chaotic street scene that invites criminals who prey on these people.
None of the people you described had to do with the shooting. Thanks for playing
So reassuring Derek has completed his investigation of this murder. Quick work! You are to be commended.
Maybe they can hang out at your house instead
They 100% had to do with the shooting in the fact that the drug gangs are there to sell to them and protect the lucrative drug trade at that spot with fully automated military grade weapons.
Stop watching tv
wow okay…lmao!
I heard the shots clearly from my apartment and knew exactly what they were because I learned my lessona few weeks ago when there was another shooting withing a block or so of where I live. This time, instead of spinning out alone in my apartment I went out to a few places for art walk. I ran into several friendly faces from the neighborhood. Everyone started the conversation with, “did you hear the gun shots?” Everyone. These moments are shared traumas. We all want a safer place to call home. The path to get there is overwhelming. Too many guns. Too much suffering through addiction. Too much anger and insecurity. I don’t believe a single person or politician is equipped to solve these issues. It will take all of us.
I’m contacting Bruce and Joy tomorrow. I’m not gonna sit here and let my area run amok with no action from them or SPD. No patrols, no wonder. Zero proactivity.
You and 1000 other people.
They did the photo shoot a year ago. Time for another?
Oh big scary. What is Joy going to do? She has zero social working experience. She is a business owner for a pot store. What the hell was this area thinking electing her anyway?
They were thinking “She’s a BLACK business owner AND grows and uses weed!”
Honestly what do you think Sawant would have done or said if this shooting occurred 3 years ago? She was silent after D’Vonne Pickett Jr was shot and killed outside his business on MLK across from Grocery Outlet in 2022. The reason Joy was elected was because her policies were less performative than her opponent and she was the complete opposite of her predecessor by not coming off as some carpet bagger co-opting issues in order for personal gain and constantly ignoring homeowners and small business owners in her district.
How many of you that “wants a safer neighborhood” is in communication with the Mayor and Council, SPD Community Outreach, or has formed a group chat or private micro-community on a platform where you can talk openly and coordinate your actions? How many of you owns property, manages a building or has lived here over 5 years that is vested in things improving?
You all need to find one another and start digging in for the long road back, being heard. Also, electing Wilson and Evans probably won’t help since both are big supporters of defunding police and alternatives to prison. Both of those factors directly lead to the kind of outcomes we see now.
Been in conversation with and made specific requests of the Mayor and Hollingsworth and SPD for years through our work on the Broadway Improvement Association to try to get them to address the outrageous lawlessness and public drug use of the last six years. All the efforts you have seen from politicians on Capitol Hill have been driven by the BIA and the GSBA and a few other business people. We are happy to meet with other people from the neighborhood, please contact me at [email protected]. After the years of trying to get action from our politicians we have concluded holding office is the only effective method to solve this problem. We need the help of others in the neighborhood and the city. Now is the time.
I own my place as I have a mortgage that I’m currently paying down. I’m sure smoothtooperate will caste this Black homeowner on Capitol Hill as some evil capitalist villain. However, I want the cops to detain and arrest the vagrant drug addicts who’ve I’ve personally witness as being thieves, whether it’s stealing residents’ packages after they’ve been delivered or stealing items from QFC and assaulting security guards on their way out. I’ve also been here long enough to have seen SPD take down the gangs, which have had a resurgence.
I will be writing CM Hollingsworth and the Mayor an e-mail stating my concerns. I also think that the drug policies should be rescinded to be less welcoming to drug addicts and to send a message that vagrant drug addicts aren’t welcomed in this city.
You can paste whatever label on me ya want. I know myself.
Everyone wants what you want. EVERYONE! YES! The drug issue is clearly out of hand. We all rant on and on and on and on and on about QFC, that corner, the gas station. EVERYONE!
So how tha phuck do you call me out when I have said it repeatedly? I say you need to look at yourself. Not me, or anyone else. At least be factual.
Pfffft…”The Mayor and the council” ain’t gonna do squat. Unless it’s CCTV and kiosks and land deals for friends etc.
I went to the house rep. Pram’s a really fun person and smart as a whip. You should meet her. Maybe do what you suggest everyone else do. Organize.
Pram and I are doing a veterans thang. It’s not ready for prime time but hey. I’m doing this instead of running. Because I don’t want the job. I do my best outside the system.
There is one current candidate for office who fully understands that the problem stems from the dismantling of our law enforcement system over 15 years through the LEAD program, the importing of 600 more severe addicts into Capitol Hill buildings with no requirement for sobriety in 2021, and the refusal of any Dem or “progressive” politician to mandate arrest and then long term residential treatment away from our city neighborhoods. This is the Rachael Savage plan and every citizen who cares about Capitol Hill should get on board. We don’t have to live like this!
Shut up Joe…It’s a gang war dude….
The “enforcement” has NEVER BEEN DISMANTLED! EVAR!
What are you talking about?
LEAD was implemented by CA Dan Satterberg years ago and is a program designed not to arrest for misdemeanors. Taking away the teeth of the court system so that diversion programs have become worse than meaningless, they are the enablers of the serious repeat offender crimes. This is why Ann Davison cancelled the dangerous community court and began to prosecute the 100 most arrested. Our jail capacity has shrunk from 500 to 120 and was at 80 during the 2020-2023 period. Our cops have retired as fast as they can for years because of the absurd level of oversight they are under in Seattle. Our public drug use law does not allow SPD to arrest anyone resulting in almost no arrests for public drug use since the law was passed. These are the facts driving what we see on the street. Combined with Housing First its destroying businesses of all kinds.
Okay…When you come with something other than FOX garbage I’ll listen.
MAGA is your lane. It’s a loser and you have zero, none, not a single chance at gaining power here. But it’s great advertising and dark campaign money.
why do you label everyone who disagrees with you, even if they vote Democrat, a MAGA? that’s not going to work in your favor, especially if you want us voting for future initiatives that help the numerous homeless outreach and housing non-profits.
No one wants to see Capitol Hill turn into the Tenderloin or a ghetto.
RACHEL SAVAGE IS MAGA!!!
JOE SAVAGE IS MAGA!!!
JOE IS…YUP>>>YOU GUESSED IT! MAGA MAGA MAGA!
It’s the lack of comprehension and critical thinking that’s YOUR issue. Not my assessments.
HOLY shit! Are you people serious?
So, you say that Ann Davison has charged/prosecuted 100 drug users/dealers who had been arrested. Doesn’t this contradict your assertion that no one is being arrested? Only 100 isn’t many compared to the numbers of addicts on our streets, but it’s a start.
I’d advise you reread his comment. It said her intent is to focus on the top 100 repeat offenders.
Takeaway being shift from volume of arrests (Joe’s goal) to “quality” of arrests (assumption being cutting out the top 100 would have cascading effects)
I was literally across the street talking to a dude about gun shout detection tech when the shooting happened.
Gun shoot detection tech works
No. It doesn’t.
https://www.aclu-wi.org/news/shotspotter-leak-shows-surveillance-tech-used-overpolice-black-and-brown-communities/
Say more. Because I lived for many years in a city with Shot spotter and it did nothing to make things safer or bring down shootings. I just told police shots were fired in a certain area and they arrived after the fact just like they would without the technology. It also sent many false reports from fireworks which were another common thing in this city. I’m all for using technology as long as it’s worth the money we spend on it.
So it didn’t stop it then? Hmmmm
let’s keep it.
Sure…I’m not saying take it down. I am saying it’s a crutch. It’s not even a tool hardly. It’s there as a big fat deterrent.
It literally fails and never works
Huh? The issue here wasn’t that no one heard the gun shots or didn’t call the cops or that the cops were too far away. How exactly would gunshot detection have helped here…?
Like Charlie Kirk talking about gun violence.
I’m not here to argue with “locals” about my life long experience in this city. But I am here to speak to all the newly settled residents of Capitol Hill. Only drunks, drug addicts and people too addicted to the nightlife frequent Capitol Hill. But don’t get me wrong, many of other neighborhoods are seeing their fair share of troubles and capitol hill his not special. There is a lot more people here in Seattle then there was back in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. The drugs are next level and the violence is untold. What once used to be a quaint neighborhood with cupcake shops/cafes dive/gay bars, now queer/tolerant spaces, where one could walk inebriated safely into the night, is now a SODA Zone. I’m not sure if it is in the budget to address this issue anytime soon. So you had better get used to it. This is not a quip or a joke. I’ve come to terms with Seattle’s changes. I don’t go out past Broadway and pike/pine after dark. It’s too risky.
It’s cartel gang activity.
They ain’t going to do squat…It’s a nice political bobble
GO MAGA! Is the current vibe. They like it that way.
and SPD went after the gangs from the 00s to the mid 10s. Unfortunately, Sawant’s rhetoric regarding the use of cameras in the CD resulted in them being removed (CHS Blog has articles covering this).
Maybe? If you stopped pasting “Sawant” on everything YOU disagree with is a good start? Clean up your own yard before you lie about me and other people.
I lived on the Hill in the late 80s and there was plenty of crime. My shared house on Mercer was burglarized during the day, and there were organized gay safety patrols (pink angels?) because there was so much gay bashing in Volunteer Park and across the Hill. Drugs were not as pronounced though.
Queer Patrol, iirc.
I moved here in the late 90s. I remember Queer Patrol and hearing about gay bashings then that warranted the creation of Queer Patrol
And three blocks to the south the new King County treatment facility will be going in. The area will be even more “troubled.”
Riiiiight….If there was no crime?
You’d say we don’t need it and it’ll invite trouble.
If it was WW3? You’d say the same.
remove the open air drug use immediately
It’s almost as if we’re experiencing the impacts of the city working to sweep encampments without actually working seriously to house and treat people experiencing homelessness and myriad health issues. Rather than addressing root issues we’re just pushing extreme poverty and the problems that follow it around to various pockets of the city in the hopes that it lands somewhere with less community friction.
lock up the drug users
No, that alone is not going to get public support. We need to expand and fund diversion/treatment programs (inpatient) and then send those arrested to these after temporarily detaining them. On the other hand, dealers should be arrested, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Addicts are not able to help themselves, so we must do it for their sake and for ours. Tough love is what is needed.
City Council need to change the city’s drug policies to not tolerate and to not have any sense of leniency towards legend drug-use, like opioids and meth. That would send a message that Seattle doesn’t tolerate it and it’d equip law enforcement with the power to arrest and charge drug addicts. Prosecution could be diverted if they go through re-hab and stay sober for a length of time.
Well before the pandemic, I’ve encountered vagrants who moved here from other parts of the country b/c of the lax enforcement of laws related to opioids and meth. We, unfortunately, invited this problem onto ourselves. Portland has also been dealing with their past leadership mistakes related to this.
Drug dealers on the other hand need to be arrested, charged, not given bail or have a high bail set, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
remove the demand and the supply becomes easier to control. lock dealers AND users up now.
Yep, call it the “cruise effect”…downtown gets “cleaned up” during the summer months so that tourists don’t get too put off. Meanwhile the adjoining neighborhoods are getting swamped. Once cruise season is over in mid-October and the rain starts, things start to shift back towards downtown.
Does seriously working include forceful placement in treatment or housing? Does leadership take action to address those that reject those options?
Many residents know the faces and hangouts of the dealers, users, and campers. They camp and use because they can and know they don’t have to be forced off the street into shelter or treatment.
The answer to your 2 questions is “no.” But that needs to change. It is not effective to just provide housing (and many will reject this anyway). Even if an addict gets an apartment (free of charge!), and even if he/she has a case manager for that building, there is no requirement to accept and participate in a treatment program for their addiction and/or mental illness. It needs to be made mandatory!
God, you are a naive fool. The root cause is that Seattle has become a magnet for drug vagrants because of stupid progressive policies. Even the KCHA says that 70% of the homeless on the streets of Seattle arrived here already homeless. I would bet it is closer to 90%. The concentration of drug addict homeless camping in our public spaces leads to a concentration of drug dealers which leads to gang violence in our hood as they fight over turf. We need to address this root cause by instituting a camping ban, enforcing laws, focusing on mandatory treatment, and reigning in the homeless industrial complex. Even Portland and San Francisco are implementing a course correction. Instead we may elect Katie “stop the sweeps” Wilson as mayor. It is so stupid.
Seattle has some of the most regressive taxes in the nation soooo…Prolly time to pay your fair share.
Why do you choose to ignore the fact that our policies attract drug addicts from outside of the region to flock here? I’ve met homeless drug addicts who moved here from other parts of the country. We’ve been negatively impacted by this more recently.
Why do you got such a thing for me. You just make up shit. Totally out of whole cloth. You are wrong. I do not ignore facts. I do ignore people like you who do what you and many do. Make up stuff. Pin it on someone. Then base an argument off that.
Pathetic.
You come after everyone wanting to call them MAGA when they’re clearly not. Yet your BS needs to be called out. Welcome to smelling your own.
I walk by this corner 10 times a week… and 5 of those times it’s 6:30am and pitch black and I’ve never had any issues. Corners are just strips of concrete. The corner isn’t the issue. I can easily name 5 much worse parts of my every day walk to work right now if you’ve like.
It’s a targeted gang related turf thang. Until the cops occupy the spot? It’ll always be brewing. A simple patrol for viability is too much to ask. They are too thin and need MORE cops and military gear.
But all the sudden outta nowhere we have dozens of cops for hours in one spot figuring out a crime. What were they doing before? Sitting in the break room. There’s lots a cars pouring from the Batcave. From all over town. But NOT here IN town?
How many times we gotta ask for a cop to sit in the Gas Station at night? They sit everywhere else? Yes? Why not RIGHT THERE! Naw, their lights and shot caller is the crutch. No need to do actual police work. Like saying hello to regular people.
Naw…Chill, hide, be “busy” until the alarm. Then go do work. Then back to doing nothing. As little public interaction as is inhumanly possible.
How many more people need to be shot and killed by accident because of gang activity on Broadway and Pike?
Really? You again?
How many times you need to be told stop with the bullshit questions and bullshit narratives. Here’s another one…wow
Go away
I think you’re casually forgetting about the Dec 31 murder of Jonny Adamow at that corner. Or the drive by shootings that occurred last August. This past week’s murder at Broadway and Pike.
Keep the CCTV mass surveillances.
How about a patrol car? How about the foot patrol/Bike?
It is a simple request.
Nawwww…WAasaaaaaay better to do the least. Make the most. And go home to the McMansion at night.
Other cities do this. Foot. Bikes. Horseback cops. But heaven forbid SPD. E on the streets unless it’s after the fact.
Back in the 80s, Broadway had a couple beat cops on foot.
Shit, I remember there being a regular police presence on this corner as recently as the early 2010s
Only as long ago as the late 90’s we had a usually different and always pleasant officer that would walk with us, once a week, through our neighborhood on block watch.
I’d love to see the ratio of SPD officers in the late 90s compared to Seattle’s population. It was probably a higher ratio of cops then than it is today.
it was more than double
Yeah I literally have never seen a single cop on foot or bike anywhere on the hill. They have complete contempt for the people in the neighborhood and prefer to cruise around in their cars like an occupying force. Honestly the lack of foot patrols is probably because they’re scared
“[Real Time Crime Center] updates were providing police with information on where the possible suspect vehicle had been spotted earlier in the day across the city”. Wait, what?
IKR? People are really dim. They have no grip on reality. Especially things they have no knowledge of.
License plates are constantly scanned and fed into a database, they can cross reference a plate and know where your car regularly “lives” and where it’s “spotted” at any time/date. For example our zone parking uses this tech now, bridge toll, and I’d bet any police car in the city is equipped with a scanner.
ICE has taken that data for personal use. The license plate readers.
So the mayor, city and SPD criminal coddlers aren’t and will not take evasive action to protect its citizens and be proactive. You can’t rid any city of crimes but you can clean things up a bit and try. If they won’t do it you know who will come and try? Maybe a higher power can bring in help for SPD to enforce actual laws. Oh no god forbid crime be addressed!
maga cops and a billionaire-coddling mayor won’t make life better here, but electing republicans (especially in the present political climate) would make it profoundly worse for everyone. vote Rinck and Wilson for actual progress instead of mealymouthed centrism or unhinged authoritarianism
There are no Republican running so no problem.. and no don’t vote Rinck or Wilson unless you like even more of the same that’s happening everyday around here.
.. I guess this may be technically both true and untrue – city council is non-partisan, but I guess that Savage is maybe a republican.. but not a viable candidate either.
Voting for Harrell again is *literally* voting for more of the same
It’ll be worse. He’ll consider it a referendum. An affirmation to go full MAGA when needed. He’ll be a King.
Jokingly at this point I wouldn’t be mad if the National Guard was camped out along the trouble spots on Broadway. I loathe the Cheeto Dictator and everything his cabinet has done, but at this point I’m tired of the platitudes and handwaving of local government to fix the areas that have consistently called out as some of the worst crime areas in the city. Criminals get away with more than the folks that live and pay taxes in the area.
And now you know why the MAGA is in office. Nobody has an answer and the answer becomes unlimited. It’s still America dude.
Let’s actually fix it instead?
The city doesn’t want to fix it. And a mental health center isn’t going to address the gang turf and drug dealer issues.
true but…The doing as little as possible approach is not working.
No, but it could help with the addiction issues that help fuel drug dealers and the gang turf wars at least.
No customer base around to need to protect, no turf war..
Lets hear your plan!
I already stated it here.
care to restate it?
Wow…You are on ignore…I’ve had enough of your lazy shit…troll
This is Mayor Harrell’s Seattle… 16 years of a power for him. His legacy is blood.
16 years of power!? That is total bologna! He had at the end of his first term. Anyways… this is not about the mayor, this is about nameless bullets flying around a grocery store. A lot of people just moved here, some from places with little to no gun violence. This is not the mayors fault. This is not some graphic comic book for your entertainment, nor is this factual blog. I enjoy being ridiculous on a comment section myself. But lives are lost and endanger. We can’t assume that these shooters opporate with some HBO CRIME/drama series code of ethics. They are pushing drugs and blowing people away. NEAR A GROCERY STORE. have you seen how many pregnant women there are walking around. And all the scary ass concealed carriers. Not to mention all the frightened social media users who think everyone is out to get them?
Stop the fake news. He’s been mayor or council (with president power for a lot of it) for 16 years.
Bruce Harrell does not believe in arresting for misdemeanor crimes. Open drug markets arise. People get shot.
There is an uptick and far more serious crimes and booking every drug addict pull resources for the true threats to the neighborhoods. And right now Seattle is still sorting that out. The moment he entered office, everyone shitted on him like he was the reason BLM or mayday happened. Stop trying to be correct. You wanna fix the city. Get drug and alcohol counseling for yourself. Drug dealers have revenue because party goers are delusional and functioning.
And filth…don’t forget filth!
Why wasn’t a police helicopter sent? Why did all the cops just go to the scene and stand around. They weren’t even taking statements
What the fuck is wrong with our city. It was an fucking execution that happened at 8pm
No one actually cares. The rich people live far away from this and that is who the council/mayor represent.
Too busy trying to catch a guy who did the ultra violent crime of…spray painting an ugly color-less gray highway wall
For real. It’s so sad that a teenager is murdered on the street and the city is touting graffiti reduction. Do better Mayor Harrell and Rep. Hollingsworth, and SPD, of course. Talk about a tragic failure only a few blocks from the station.
Removing the drug addicted street people is key to cleaning up the area. You don’t have to like it or other common sense statements.
So we’re removing the coke addict amazon directors from Magnolia?
This situation is why Trump is going to send the National Guard to Seattle. At this point, I’ll welcome them. Our local government has proven incapable of fixing the mess of street addicts and gang-related drug dealing in Capitol Hill.
And they scream at me “There’s no MAGA in Seattle.”
lolol
What exactly is it that you think the National Guard is getting sent in for?
Oh good, a kapo
So what?
Are you trying to say a skilled kapo can’t fix Seattle? They’ll never believe that. They think that’s the cure, forever.
Homeless drug addicts welcomed to camp in the neighborhood + concentration of housing first and “harm reduction” services + the dissolution of the SPD gang unit and de-policing following the 2020 mass hysteria = drug dealers fighting over lucrative open-air drug markets on Pike and Broadway and at Cal Anderson Park. How progressive!
Step 1: Incarcerate and forcibly detox/rehabilitate the drug zombies, like they do in other states with great success.
Step 2: Brutalize, then incarcerate gang members who commit a disproportionate amount of murders. Give them 25, 30, 35 year sentences.
Unfortunately Seattle coddles the drug heads and drug heads like babies
What states? Genuinely curious, I’m so at a loss of how we fix this without federal money for treatment centers, I’d love to learn more about how other cities fix this. Because throwing addicts in regular prisons obviously doesn’t solve it.
on one hand, i wanna say, “okay, fine, lets put up the cameras” and then I remember that corner already HAS cameras which apparently doesn’t matter?
Hollingsworth has told me she refuses to publicly call out the mayor for his leadership.
I’m glad at least the powers that be are aware of this situation and working on strategies to combat this. You can’t 100% stop crazy. Murder has been a thing the entire history of humans, thousands of years before the Egyptian empires. And to be fair ANY homicide, anywhere, anytime is one too much and a tragedy.
That being said, don’t argue by anecdote, we have facts. Some folks talk like the city is falling apart. In reality, homicides are WAY down. If things continue the last 3 months like they have the first 9…we’re on track for 32 homicides in Seattle. That’s 32 too many. BUT…that’s a low as it’s been since 2018, a 40% DROP from last year, and a 50% drop compared to 2023.
2018 – 32
2019 – 36
2020 – 53
2021 – 43
2022 – 54
2023 – 63
2024 – 53
2025 – 24 (for first 9 months…est 32 for year)
Stop using facts dude! You’re going to upset all the people who think this shooting from an nice car was the result of the drug addicted moneyless homeless pan handlers outside the grocery store, most of whom can barely cross a street much less own or steal a car then drive it.
One of these days someone might even remember that before Capitol Hill’s gun problem the previous nightlife hotspot (Belltown) had the same problem, as did Pioneer Square before that. One might almost be lead to believe that there’s more of a connection to gun violence and predominantly cis het nightlife crowd and alcohol than to unhoused people. As others have noted, there are way more struggling people living downtown, so I’m sure if they’re the cause then there would be significantly higher rates of gun violence there, right?
They’ve arrested two in the SODA so far. You have to deliberately get that statistic. The only failure to enforce the laws is the cops. Sawant isn’t running the city btw.
https://publicola.com/2025/10/10/banishment-orders-and-mandatory-addiction-assessments-havent-helped-drug-users-court-records-show/