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Councilmembers highlight public safety hotspots, call for coordinated responses
Summary
Multiple councilmembers raised public safety concerns across Seattle neighborhoods — citing shootings on Aurora Avenue, ongoing problems at Magnuson Park and Twelfth & Jackson, a community CPTED exercise in Little Saigon, shelter day‑center gaps and cuts to diaper programs — and requested coordinated law‑enforcement and social‑service responses.
Several councilmembers used the March 3 briefing to report recent public safety problems in city neighborhoods and to discuss short‑ and long‑term responses.
Councilmember Andrew Moore described renewed brazen gun violence and sex‑trafficking‑related activity along Aurora Avenue, saying the council and city departments are coordinating street design and service‑delivery responses and that he will walk the corridor to assess potential street‑closure or design changes. Moore also said the women’s ShareWheel Shelter reports 25–30 mats on the floor nightly and implored the council to…
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