Why is Aurora Avenue crime concentrated in Seattle, not Shoreline?
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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| Photos of the newly completed Aurora Corridor 2015 Courtesy City of Shoreline |
By Diane Hettrick
There's no question that the northern stretch of Aurora in Seattle - from 105th to 145th - is the wild west. Drive by shootings, pot shop invasions, pedestrians on the sidewalk hit by cars, drug deals. There is prostitution but the crime seems to center on gun battles between pimps.
The Seattle City Council is considering tackling the problem by declaring it a 'no prostitution' zone. And they can't help but notice that all those problems stop at the city border and are non-existent in Shoreline.
This article by Amy Radil in KUOW.org discusses this and interviews Shoreline Police Chief Kelly Park, Capt. Tim Meyer, and Jim Hammond, Shoreline's intergovernmental relations manager to find out what Shoreline is doing right.
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I have always marveled that 145th is such a distinct dividing line between crime and peace. I have always chalked it up to a well run police department doing their job and keeping Shoreliners safe. Turns out it's because we have sidewalks and plants. Never saw that coming. Is there anything sidewalks can't do?
LOL. Yeah... sidewalks and plants is the main reason and not the fact that Seattle is struggling with police recruitment and enforcement of basic laws. Is it so hard to give some credit to the officers working Shoreline King County Sheriff Department?
Sounds like an attempt by the City to curb prostitution as in the days of Denny. Thousands of women were registered in the City census as seamstresses. And although there was great suspicion as to their real roles in the community, “after exhaustive research on the part of the City, there were no changes to the census information”.
Face it, the urban planning term “whoredore” is simply a portion of the community where there is no control on what goes in thee.there; legal or not.
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