The Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat wrote that crime throughout Seattle is down. Shootings are down 29%, car theft has declined 25%, robberies are down 15%, and overall violent crime has dropped 12%, all while the city has had the least amount of murders since 2019.
Despite the promising data, KIRO host John Curley wanted to pump the brakes on celebrating the optimistic trends.
“I think as of yesterday, Seattle is up to 19 homicides, and we’re a little bit more than halfway through the year,” Curley said on “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “Normally, homicides are highest when it’s hotter out, and we tend to get more murders from June all the way to probably about the middle of September. So we’re at 19. Could we double that number? Could we be up to possibly at 38 or 40, which would put us again a high above the average of 28?”…