LIHI offers space for Seattle neighborhood police precinct

SEATTLE — The Low Money Housing Institute (LIHI) says it has supplied up street-degree storefront area in two of its housing structures as likely community policing precincts to the Seattle mayor’s place of work. 

In reaction to the proposal, initial described by neighborhood information web page PubliCola, the mayor’s workplace claims it is nevertheless in the early phases of considering what a community precinct could look like. 

“We know there is certainly been major public basic safety issues all-around Third and Pine, and Third and Pike, and we have a constructing there,” LIHI Executive Director Sharon Lee mentioned. “And so we considered, you know, we have this vacant storefront, why do not we present it to group service officers, bike patrol.”

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LIHI says the pandemic was rough on downtown and on its inhabitants, and problems about criminal offense produced some of them cautious about leaving their flats.

“They could seem up and down 3rd Avenue and with any luck , it will be a safer space for our neighbors and firms and our residents,” Lee mentioned. 

In reaction to the proposal, the mayor’s business unveiled a assertion looking through:

“The Mayor’s Workplace is in early levels of taking into consideration what a neighborhood precinct could glance like. We are continuing to check out all possibilities for maximizing community safety downtown, like a more permanent police presence. The area you mention has been offered as a probable choice, but is by no usually means the only locale staying considered.”

KING 5 achieved out to the Seattle Police Section for remark but did not listen to again by airtime.