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By Sara Longley

Aug 15, 2002 -- A man walks through a park on the corner of Boren Avenue and Pike Street on a Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. A man approaches him and asks for a "smoke." The victim replies that he doesn't have any, and the suspect punches him numerous times in the face and arms. A group of about 12 men watches this take place but does nothing. Someone tells the victim to get on the ground, and he does. The suspect goes through the victim's pockets and takes his wallet and his cell phone. The victim is allowed to leave and a few minutes later he flags down a police officer and reports the assault and robbery. The officer tells him to cancel his bank card immediately...

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At 9:45 p.m. on a Monday evening, a woman drops off her children at a Capitol Hill house where her daughter is house-sitting. When they arrive, there are around 30 well-dressed teenagers, ages 15-17, in the house. The teens appear to have been drinking and playing music. They flee when the house-sitter and her family appear. Two of them said they got inside the house with a key. After they leave, the house-sitter finds a cell phone that they left behind. She discovers that a necklace and some change belonging to her are missing and calls police to report the theft. She tells officers that the homeowner has four sons and perhaps the teens know one of them...

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An apartment manager at a building on Harvard Ave. E observes a strange man using a crowbar to break into the storage compartments on the side of his apartment building just before 8 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. Thinking the man has not seen him, the manager leaves the area and calls police. But when officers arrive the man is gone. The manager confirms that no entry was gained and nothing is missing. The officers check the area but do not find the suspect...

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A Central Area man calls police on a Tuesday to report a months-old burglary. He tells officers that his music keyboard disappeared from his apartment in March. He doesn't know how it disappeared, and says that his doors had been locked and secured and there was no sign of forced entry. He further says that he woke up this morning and noticed pinholes in the wall of his apartment and scrapes on the collar of his jacket, and that these new suspicious developments motivated him to report his stolen keyboard. He is left with a victim follow-up form...

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On a Tuesday at 3:20 a.m., officers are dispatched to an audible alarm call from a business on Rainier Avenue S, but the call is canceled by the customer before they arrive. At 10:47 that morning when the business owners arrive, they call police to report that their business was burglarized. A window on the second floor is broken and two laptop computers are missing from the inside. The business owner is provided with a case number...

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A witness sees a man wearing jeans and tennis shoes but no shirt, who is walking along Belmont Ave. E at 12:36 on a Tuesday morning trying the door handles on every car. The witness calls police, and when an officer arrives he sees the man trying the door at an apartment building. When contacted, the man says he was invited by the building owner to stay at the apartments. The man is convinced he is being pursued by gang members and points out that the mechanics at Phil Smart Mercedes are the culprits. He also thinks he is in Denver. He is transported to Harborview for mental evaluation...

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Anonymous	Jan 09, 2003
what does this have to do with ne thing at all so find the people that did it don't go around asking people to cry for you!


jeff	Jun 24, 2004
These are great examles of why gun control is a bad idea. You unarm good people and leave them helpless to defend themselvs against crimnals who many times do have guns because they don't care if not having a gun is against the law or not. That is why they are called crimnals. The police do not get to the problem until the crime has been committed 95% of the time. They do not detour crime. They are nothing more than proffessional note takers who take notes as to how this bad guy raped your wife or robbed you or committed any crime against you. Most of the time the crimes go unsolved. The cities with the highest amount of gun control laws also have the highest amount of violent crimes where as the cities with the least amount of gun control have the least amount of violent crime. Sounds obvious to me. Get a gun and protect your self. Crimnals are afraid of people that have guns. Help to lower the crime rate. Get a gun and protect your self!!!!!!!!