Seattle Police focused on gang issues in Seattle (including in Lake City)

Casey McNerthney has an article up at seattlepi.com on Seattle Police’s efforts to address gang issues in the city.

A man who fled officers as they arrived on the scene of a disturbance at the Lake City Community Center on Friday night is taken into custody after the patrolman who pursued on foot, center, and gang unit officers in car, were able to take him down several blocks away.

Dean Rutz/Seattle Times/Pool photo

One interesting note: The photo series that is linked to Casey’s article discusses Gang Unit patrols in Lake City near Lake City Community Center last Friday night. This was the same night of the alleged assault of a teen attending a dance at the Community Center, an incident in which the Community Center staff apparently failed to contact the police.