Posted on 01/25/2016 9:17:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hundreds of homeowners and business people, frustrated over drug and property crimes, are hiring their own security patrols to curb what they see as a long-neglected problem.
For Angie Gerrald, crime in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood has reached a new low. From illegally parked RVs to open drug deals, the longtime resident sees piles of used needles on her routine runs, she said, and other problems she says police sometimes ignore.
"The blatant lawlessness has been a whole new era" this past year, Gerrald said. "There is so little response -- so little they [police] can and will do about it."
Hundreds of residents in Ballard, Queen Anne, Magnolia and Fremont share Gerrald's frustration over crime and police response near their homes and businesses, and it's sparked a citizen-led movement to improve surveillance. They cite incidents of burglaries, thefts and illegal drug use over the past year, for instance -- crimes they believe are rising with the city's growth....
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Welcome to the Third World.
It costs money to bust lowlifes.
Police time is much better spent hiding in the bushes giving radar tickets to BMWs
Watch ‘Gangs of New York’, and you see that early police and fire departments in NYC were private subscription affairs. Seattle residents are reinventing it.
Perhaps Germans should do this.
Well, well, well. Imagine that.
Unfortunately private security has no authority. All they can do is call the cops. I know because my wife called the security company that patrols our neighborhood and was told they’d contact the police.
In Houston the more wealthy neighborhoods hire legitimate deputy sheriffs to patrol the areas. They’re in county owned cars and wear county sheriff uniforms but are paid by the neighborhoods.
A liberal utopia ...puke.
Security companies are changing. There are quite a few ‘private police departments’ around now. It’s all about accountability. If you have the means to pay, you can get your own private dept and when they don’t do their jobs, they have no union or civil service laws to protect them. I think we’ll start seeing more and more of this. Plus, there’s no long term costs like crazy pensions and health care.
I’ll bet Angie and her friends voted for blatant lawlessness in 2012
when they pulled the lever to re-elect Ubama.
“A liberal utopia ...puke.”
True enough. I expect the problem will get worse.
I wonder of all that lawlessness has anything to do with that consent decree that was forced on Seattle police by the Justice Department about discriminatory enforcement.
I live in a lily white, well armed community without adjacent crime-ridden areas.
This is largely white crime in the neighborhoods noted above.
Thanks, liberals.
You might be right about that Federal thing. I listen to the Seattle scanner once in awhile. It always astounds me on how well they know the guys. Sometimes when they arrest them “Yeah - he’s the one that shot himself in the foot last year - remember?” But more often it is them commenting on “No - they aren’t involved in the possible drive-by. They’re still hanging out at the corner of 5th and Broad dealing.”
But wait; liberals in Seattle hate cops. I don’t get it.
Look. It’s a new apex predator.
They legalized pot... Liberal-tarians and commies make it out to be harmless, but it is not harmless, socially, to the area. Seattle being leftist will find out the long and hard way.
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