Seattle Escorts: Georgetown Residents On Edge About Rise In Thefts
Residents of Georgetown—tucked between I-5 and the industrial area around the Duwamish River in the Seattle Police Department’s South Precinct—say they have felt ignored by police over the last few years. The South Precinct has gone through three police captains in three years, and Georgetown residents say no one from SPD has shown up to one of their monthly community meetings to check in with the neighbors about problem-plagued motels, chopped-up bodies, or the recent uptick in property crimes.
Some neighbors complained about open prostitution and drug dealing—”we’ve seen one of the drug dealers sell to one of the sex offenders,” one man said—while one Georgetown resident told police thieves have been taking “anything metal that’s not bolted down” from homes in the neighborhood. That includes everything from planter boxes, to license plates, to the metal address numbers on the sides of houses, another Georgetown resident told PubliCola.
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