After 10 years of operating blocks away from the notoriously crime-riddled 12th and Jackson corner in Seattle, a dim sum restaurant has shut down its weekday service because the crime became too much.
Ursula Reutin, co-host of “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio, summarized a recent experience she had in the Chinatown-International District (CID), an area she used to spend time in regularly, but said rampant crime has kept her away.
“It had been a while for me since I’d been there. We used to go fairly regularly, and I was asking myself, why haven’t I been?” Ursula said. “Yesterday, I drove by 12th and Jackson, and I had to drive around again to take some pictures and document it. There were at least 50 people just on that corner, and they were all in various stages of drug use; it was very obvious. If they were not dealing, they were stooped over, or they were using. I mean, it was a horrible scene.”
Mayor Katie Wilson had promised to crack down on crime in Chinatown
Ursula pointed out that Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson had promised to crack down on crime in the CID. The neighborhood was cleaned up for the FIFA World Cup, but fill-in host Angela Poe Russell said what she saw afterward shocked her…