Just before 2:30 a.m. last Wednesday, Desirae Aylesworth woke up to the sound of her Ring camera system notifying her of a breach in her café. Her Seattle café was being robbed, becoming the latest victim of Seattle’s crime crisis.
“It’s like they’re in your home, you know?” she explained. “It’s a very violating feeling. And unfortunately, I don’t live super close to the restaurant or I would have been there myself. I can’t imagine a more violating feeling than watching that happen in real-time and feeling completely helpless about it.”“They obviously didn’t care at all,” Aylesworth said. “The alarms were blaring and they just … there’s a lack of concern for what they’re doing or what they could be doing to other people.
What’s been done to meaningfully tackle the staffing challenges? Talking about how they’ll tackle the staffing challenges, but not actually tackle the staffing challenges. Inexplicably, the city of Seattle has taken recruiting almost entirely out of the hands of police, handing it over to unqualified city staff.
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