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Neighbors in West Seattle are rallying around their new police precinct, which opened a little over a year ago. It seems troublemakers have been prowling the employee parking lot behind the cop shop and vandalizing officers' personal cars. "There was apparently a window shot out of a car, and someone was seen taking license-plate numbers off of their vehicles," explains Desi Russell Seefeld, head of the West Seattle Community Safety Partnership. Other cars have been keyed, she reports. Neighbors would like the city to put up a fence around the lot to secure the officers' cars.

But a fence was debated before--when the city was planning the Delridge Way precinct--and the idea was nixed. Owners of a Kmart store behind the precinct didn't want the new building fenced in like a fortress, and most neighbors agreed. The city compromised and just fenced the patrol cars. Now the Kmart is empty, and neighbors have changed their tune, but there's little money in the city budget for a fence, a city hall staffer explains. Russell Seefeld plans to keep up the pressure--she's already cornered the mayor at a neighborhood event to tell him about the parking lot's problems. "This is about security," she says. "There's a lot of crazies out there." AMY JENNIGES

W Is Still for Weekly

Seattle Weekly's part-owner Goldman Sachs continues to pour money into Bush's 2004 presidential campaign ["There's a Dubya in Weekly," April 22]. At latest count, Goldman Sachs--one of W.'s all-time top-10 contributors and one of the Weekly's main investors--has donated $337,875 to Bush's campaign. JOSH FEIT

Morning in Seattle

On Friday, as President Reagan's body prepared to meet its final rest, Mayor Nickels issued this weirdly backhanded memo to city hall staffers about the 40th president's demise: "President Reagan's death has sparked a national discussion of his policies and his role in shaping history.... I invite you to take a moment of silence at your workplace to reflect on his legacy." Sort of an ambiguous message for a city that--unlike other mid-size cities such as San Diego, Tampa, and St. Louis--did not shut down its offices for Reagan's funeral. ERICA C. BARNETT

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