http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/10/31/something-big-happened Comments On: Something Big Happened: Shots and Sirens at 29th and Yesler by Grant Brissey en-us Copyright 2010 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Yeah, those rich mansions around/east of 30th and Jackson sure are sssssccccarrryy.
zillow much? The house that's literally for sale a block south of Yesler/MLK? $1.2M.
ahem. *headshake *

Yes, the homicide rate is high in that beat, but greenlake, fremont, sandpoint and northgate EACH had only one less homicide in 08 than yesler/MLK area. The Ave (north of 45th), belltown, yesler terrace, the waterfront etc etc have much more total violent crime.

@27 yeah, Basketball and Thugs. Good one. Don't forget bongo drum classes and rapper mentorships in your stereotyping... yo. (Perhaps the kids growing up on Cap hill can get drama/musicals and costuming-for-ballet? The kids in Ballard can get boatmaking & fishgutting programs? *eyeroll* ). file under: Brains are like umbrellas.

@31: while I might occasionally side with the 'it's too bad the CD is losing its character and culture' argument, and I certainly bemoan the fact that hardly anyone remembers Jackson Street's significant contributions to jazz, some might be interested to know that some of those so called whites/ invading liberals are grandchildren of the WWI and WWII white/multiracial folks, not to mention the japanese-americans, the italians, and the jews who also lived there a couple generations back. CD's history didn't start with the BlackPanthers: LangstonHughes PAC was originally the oldest synagogue in WA state, for those that forget. 'Chickens coming home to roost', indeed. Were it not for internment, the neighborhood might still be full of Japanese or even Italian culture.

@35: wow, how embarrassed are you? turns out it wasn't a gang, it was a 41 yo grad student. hmm. 'Mandatory' neighborhood watches are called 'Police Departments', btw.

@40: when you put as much importance on eye and hair color as you do skin color, then I'll be happy to twist Jonah's (or the Seattle Times, et al) arm on your behalf. In the meantime, your veiled bigotry..., isn't.
@41: I guess it turns out Reality(Bounced?)Check was 'half right' in his fears - but standard practice or not, I still maintain 'race', such as it's trumped up to be -in a nation such as ours - is as imaginary a concept as StarTrek.

@44: "turning into..."?? Oh, Andy... You must be new here...
Posted by Rev.Smith]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:09:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by six shooter]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:20:31 -0800 The Stranger
If it was big enough for a blog entry titled "Crime: Something Big Happened" maybe someone should follow it up. There's a huge gap in the city's news coverage after the PI went down and instead of making any attempt to fill it the Stranger is turning into Statler and Waldorf.
Posted by Original-er Andy]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:42:18 -0800 The Stranger
Do you have any idea how many gun-related murders there are in the Seattle area a year? Do you have any idea how many of them were never solved?

I'm guessing you have no idea of either statistic. If you knew either statistic, you would understand how silly your statements sound.

I am proud of the Seattle Police Department and the fine work they do. I've lived in cities with unprofessional police departments. Whenever I hear of people complaining about how unprofessional SPD is, I imagine those people have never lived under real rogue police departments.

AND I would fully support a decision to drop every other murder case SPD is investigating until they solve this case. We should not ask our officers to risk their lives without allowing them to take every reasonable step to protect their lives.
Posted by six shooter]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:04:33 -0800 The Stranger
So when we hear Slog writers pissing on other media outlets it's hard to take them seriously.

Posted by bigyaz]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:40:16 -0800 The Stranger
Nice way you accuse Jonah (who works for another blog now, in case you didn't know - why don't you address him there?) of something that's a pretty standard practice among the media. (WorldNetDaily doesn't count when I say "media" BTW.)
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:32:49 -0800 The Stranger SeattleCrime.com is a sham website.

Jonah insists on carrying on his tradition of not giving full accurate descriptions of violent suspects related to age, race, appearance. If you go back and look at his past articles you can see an obvious intentional omission of such information.

Until such time as he stops this behavior, his site will be marginalized by his shoddy journalism.

Seriously Jonah grow the fuck up.

And @30.... @31's response is spot on... you should consider his point.

And finally... @39 I'd hate to start a not-so-veiled racist element to any thread, especially this one. We don't know the race of the attacker either do we yet?

Any guesses though?

Or shall we not feed the troll's that would rather ask the race of the officer vs the race of the scum asshole who assassinated a police officer?
Posted by Reality Check]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:20:41 -0800 The Stranger
There's also a not-so-veiled racist element to arguments like yours, but let's not feed the trolls by asking the slain officer's skin color...


Posted by eric (the other one)]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:51:36 -0800 The Stranger
in an attempt to be witty you leap-frogged what a neighborhood watch is/does to go ahead and make yourself sound untrusting and paranoid. good job. if what you said is what a neighborhood watch is, why would anyone suggest it? way to miss the point.
Posted by no excuses]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:48:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by six shooter]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:45:22 -0800 The Stranger
Foxes watching the hen house.....
Posted by Bogan Nation]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:42:38 -0800 The Stranger
some thugs pull up RIGHT NEXT to a pair of officers an OPEN FIRE?! FIND THEM. PUNISH TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

if they're involved in a gang, FIND THE GANG MEMBERS AND DO THE SAME. Seattle has let itself get overrun with this SCUM. it's not too late to stop it. time to take out the trash. neighborhood watches should be MANDATORY for ALL NEIGHBORHOODS. TAKE BACK THIS CITY. let these wastes of carbon find out first hand that the people of Seattle are not going to take it anymore.

my heart goes out to this officer's family. honor him by ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING to solve the PROBLEM that CAUSED HIS UNFAIR DEATH. enough with all the pseudo-witty banter about race and class and stuff...there's a problem in this city that can be solved if the people just come together. this can be stopped.
Posted by no excuses]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:32:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by piojin]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:31:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Bogan Nation]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:31:39 -0800 The Stranger
Well, maybe society, in some crazy way, thinks the lives of cops are more valuable than some POS gang banger who gets gunned down?

Call me crazy, but I agree.
Posted by Billy Boy]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:19:38 -0800 The Stranger
I agree, any hood that has cops gunned down in the streets on a busy halloween evening, must be splendid. Maybe the reason it's not Detroit has to do with Seattle's special demographics that make it very different from St Louis, Cincinatti etc.? Just a thought.

Anyhow, the more guilty white liberals who move to the CD to experience 'diversity', the better it will become. Eventually, it may even be Wedgewood.
Posted by Billy Boy]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:09:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:03:08 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.seattlecrime.com/

there is, also, a really cool 911 map there

you're welcome
Posted by MrBaker]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:55:18 -0800 The Stranger
Yes, thank god for concerned white liberals with web access, how else would we know what a sh*tty hood they moved into.
Posted by Billy Boy]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:51:20 -0800 The Stranger
Maybe we need a special levy, we can call it the "Thugs to Angels" levy.
Posted by Stupid Hippee]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:50:09 -0800 The Stranger
There's a dandy website run by something called The Seattle Times, that's all about news in Seattle! (although it doesn't have much to say about this, either) and I've heard tell that all of the TV stations have websites as well.

The best coverage I've seen is over at centraldistrictnews.com. You won't believe this, but it's all about news that happens in the Central District!
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:49:15 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.seattlecrime.com/2009/10/31/o…

Guess Charles can't quite keep up with Jonah.
Posted by BombasticMO]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:44:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by eric (the other one)]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:41:16 -0800 The Stranger
I won't regurgitate what has already been posted 3 hours prior.. but it is 3+ hours later...

This could be one of the most interesting stories of the year, and you still don't have anything of substance...

ummmmm

nevermind.
Posted by Reality Check]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:33:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mahtli69]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:25:12 -0800 The Stranger