Make Seattle Safe Again

I've been taking walks in the neighborhood for years but now I don't feel safe.

My son and his young family call me after being awakened @ 4 a.m. with numerous cars, people behind his home in the alley. He's frightened b/c they are not the neighbors and he is aware of breakins, drug dealings, car thefts etc. in his immediate neighborhood. Why should a young family have to be woken @ 4 a.m. fearing for their safety in this great city? It starts from the Top. Who's running this city anyhow? Let's move him into one or any of these houses so that he's the one fearing for his life. Maybe then he would have an active police force on the streets in front of his house and behind. Seattle, you are better than this!

Magnolia needs a quicker response to our 911 calls. SPD needs to recognize we deserve an "actively involved" police presence. Tired of getting officers one step away from retirement, looking for an easy assignment.

Agree with others that crime should be punished, regardless of who committed it. We don't live in the zombie apocalypse yet and rules of civility should still apply.

Thank you for organizing this. Crime, drugs and homelessness have gotten way out of control in our city. Please address and invest in the mental illness aspects of the problems too.

Need city hall allow police to in force the law.

more cops on the streets please! More enforcement on people living in campers and cars. They leave trash, feces and drug paraphernalia on the street.

Bring back beat cops or, at least, the concept of community policing with officers who have their fingers on the pulse of a community.

Ballard is where I do business and I have client's moving out because of concerns over the drug using scurge that is overtaking the neighborhood.

Make Gillman and Thorndyke safe.

Time to take back our neighborhoods!

Not just our neighborhoods but throughout the entire city. The police force is understaffed for a city this size and "our" mayor and the council have made it abundantly clear that criminal activity has taken a back seat.

Help, restore our neighborhoods

I could agree more with this statement as I have myself witnessed much of this activity and have called the police with little or no response.

Clean up this city and let police, police. Their hands shouldn't be tied. Homelessness needs I be cleaned up and addressed. I'm embarrassed to live here, and its unsafe.

If Seattle has pretensions to become a world-class city, it must have a first-rate police force. If Magnolia has only one officer and north of 85th police are non-existent, something needs to change. The bad guys are winning.

We need more police presence/patrols in Ballard. Property crime is rampant and I see illegal activity on the streets every single day. Open use of drugs, alcohol, drug deals, people so wasted they are passed out in the middle of the gas station lot! Daily break-ins to peoples homes and auto theft/break-ins and vandalism. Abandoned vehicles are everywhere. Please give more resources in our community.

Our mayor and city council need to start doing the job they were elected to do!

Report every single incident, suspicious characters, illegal camping, etc to the SPD. Otherwise the authorities don't know the extent of the problems. You can report most incidents online, except violent crime and large property losses. Also there is an online graffiti report system. Photos of the graffiti are required. Report every single one of the issues you all describe, even though you know the police won't respond, and the thefts minor, all are important to show the scope of the deterioration of our neighborhoods.

I grew up in Ballard, but currently live in Lake City, where these same issues are also a huge problem. Hopefully the mayor, city council & SPD will care enough to make ALL our Seattle neighborhoods safe again.