Literally the last paragraph of this KING 5 News story headlined “Some big name retailers caught selling liquor to minors” is:
[Liquor control board] officials say that compliance checks at spirits retailers show that 93 percent of them are following the law and denying sales to minors. That’s about the same compliance rate that liquor stores had when they were run by the state.
That is basically everything I wanted to know. All of the “news” preceding that—about liquor stings and how many citations each store has (the highest is Safeway, with nine citations)—doesn’t seem super-relevant once you read the above paragraph. You can let your kids back out of the house now, folks! The streets are as safe (or unsafe) as they always were.