Subject:

Gang Violence

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    High Point Advocates Point to Increased Number of Burials as Sign of Progress

    Flickr: SlightlynorthDoes this really prove the safety of High Point?​High Point, one of four neighborhoods the Seattle Housing Authority has redeveloped into mixed-income homes, has had its share of violence lately. There's been a teen stabbing, a police assault, an unprovoked attack, and an ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 2010

    A Report From Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    Flickr: SlightlynorthDoes this really prove the safety of High Point?​High Point, one of four neighborhoods the Seattle Housing Authority has redeveloped into mixed-income homes, has had its share of violence lately. There's been a teen stabbing, a police assault, an unprovoked attack, and an ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2010

    CD Reviews: Ted Leo and Drive-By Truckers

    Flickr: SlightlynorthDoes this really prove the safety of High Point?​High Point, one of four neighborhoods the Seattle Housing Authority has redeveloped into mixed-income homes, has had its share of violence lately. There's been a teen stabbing, a police assault, an unprovoked attack, and an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Pete Carroll's Long-Distance Chairmanship of Inner-City Program Worries L.A.

    One of the ironies of the Seahawks' recent hiring of USC football coach Pete Carroll is that Los Angeles' much-admired inner-city program, A Better LA, is now being run from Seattle. Carroll founded the nonprofit group in 2003 and turned it into a powerful social and political organization. It ope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2009

    SPD Officer Slain in Leschi Drive-by; Manhunt On

    ​In what may be a modern-day first in Seattle crime, a veteran Seattle Police officer was ambushed and killed Saturday night in the Central District by a drive-by shooter, police say, while a rookie officer who was slightly injured was able to return fire. A search is now underway for the shoo ... More >>

  • Film

    September 23, 2009

    Loren Cass: Like a Teenage Bukowski in Florida

    ​In what may be a modern-day first in Seattle crime, a veteran Seattle Police officer was ambushed and killed Saturday night in the Central District by a drive-by shooter, police say, while a rookie officer who was slightly injured was able to return fire. A search is now underway for the shoo ... More >>

  • Film

    August 12, 2009

    PICK Not Quite Hollywood: Exploitation in Oz

    ​In what may be a modern-day first in Seattle crime, a veteran Seattle Police officer was ambushed and killed Saturday night in the Central District by a drive-by shooter, police say, while a rookie officer who was slightly injured was able to return fire. A search is now underway for the shoo ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2009

    Gang Combat

    As the city launches a new effort to head off youth violence, some question the approach.

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Borderline Drug Violence

    LA Times Northwest correspondent Kim Murphy picks up today on the gangland violence in Vancouver B.C., perpetrated in part by now-convicted gang leader Clayton Roueche, who was profiled in a 2008 SW piece. (That's his United Nations gang monogrammed cocaine, left). Stumbling into a trap laid by U.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Gang-banger Convicted in Milam Execution

    Guilty, is the verdict in the 2005 street-gang murder of Terrell Milam, the gang-banger who, hours before his death, had brawled with then-Seahawks now-Cowboy safety Ken Hamlin, (left) almost ending his career. As SW reported in 2008, Milam was killed for bragging to a rival gang member about shooti ... More >>

  • Film

    March 11, 2009

    Crips & Bloods: Made in America: The Dogtown Director Doesn’t Get Too Deep

    Guilty, is the verdict in the 2005 street-gang murder of Terrell Milam, the gang-banger who, hours before his death, had brawled with then-Seahawks now-Cowboy safety Ken Hamlin, (left) almost ending his career. As SW reported in 2008, Milam was killed for bragging to a rival gang member about shooti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    UPDATE: More Info on the 26-year-old Concert Promoter Killed This Morning

    In a sad story that's becoming too familiar, a 26-year-old concert promoter named Tyrone Love was shot and killed this morning after leaving a President's Day party that he was hosting on behalf of his promotions company, Vibrant Entertainment 206. The story first broke on the Seattle Times website- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    This Is Why You Pay for Social Programs

    Yesterday, the P-I's Casey McNerthney profiled two SPD officers, Adley Sheperd and Jake Briskey, who are tasked with policing Southeast Seattle's gangs. The officers clearly work hard, but they're being asked to do an impossible job, and regularly arrive at crime scenes to find that the kids they've ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Policin' Ain't Easy

    Rick Anderson has a great story in this week's issue detailing the various gang wars between kids from different neighborhoods. As the webmaster of the website Northwest Gangs tells him, "I believe many of the gangs will fight today just because they are simply from different neighborhoods."But that ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2009

    Turf Wars Are Fueling Seattle’s Gang Conflicts

    Where a kid lives is enough to get him shot.

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Vito's Closing?

    First Hill Institution Vito's--also the site of a recent gang-related shooting--appears to have been evicted.

  • Music

    January 7, 2009

    Gangland Security

    Fingers are pointing, but it’s hard to assign blame in the Chop Suey shootings.

  • News

    December 17, 2008

    Gangster's Future Just Got Bleaker

    Omar Norman faces first-degree murder charges for shooting the man who assaulted then-Seahawk Ken Hamlin.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Drive-by Patches

    As street-gang expert Gabe Morales told us this summer, Seattle "is kind of at where L.A., Chicago, and Newark were 20 years ago. We're just now catching up in assessing gangs locally, and we've got a long ways to go with prevention and intervention. There are no easy answers, to be sure." That's wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2008

    Another Biker Bust

    As street-gang expert Gabe Morales told us this summer, Seattle "is kind of at where L.A., Chicago, and Newark were 20 years ago. We're just now catching up in assessing gangs locally, and we've got a long ways to go with prevention and intervention. There are no easy answers, to be sure." That's wh ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2008

    The Last King of Potland

    In the typically futile annals of the War on Drugs, the takedown of a Canadian scrap dealer’s son was a major score.

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Widow of Slain Deputy Sues Department of Corrections

    In the typically futile annals of the War on Drugs, the takedown of a Canadian scrap dealer’s son was a major score.

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2008

    Pot and the Economy

    In the typically futile annals of the War on Drugs, the takedown of a Canadian scrap dealer’s son was a major score.

  • News

    April 16, 2008

    Cracking the Gangbangers’ Code of Silence

    Informants are blowing Seattle murder cases wide open.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2008

    Gregoire Signs Gang Bill Into Law

    Informants are blowing Seattle murder cases wide open.

  • Food

    March 26, 2008

    And Now a Moment With Pork Neck Bones

    Straight out of the gangbanger’s cookbook, right?

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Senator Switches Sides on Gang Bill Debate

    Adam Kline will ask the governor to veto the bill.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Kline Switches Position on Anti-Gang Bill

    Adam Kline will ask the governor to veto the bill.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2008

    Anti-Gang Bill Slims Down, Passes Senate

    Adam Kline will ask the governor to veto the bill.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2008

    The Pre-school Gangsta

    Adam Kline will ask the governor to veto the bill.

  • News

    March 5, 2008

    ACLU Stays Surprisingly Neutral on Anti-Gang Bill

    NAACP says it could lead to racial profiling.

  • Film

    December 5, 2007

    Revolver: Guy Ritchie Meets Deepak Chopra

    NAACP says it could lead to racial profiling.

  • News

    October 31, 2007

    Are Gang Task Forces Outdated?

    LAPD vet says Seattle's proposed gang task force will be “ineffective.”

  • Film

    August 8, 2007

    Ghosts of Cité Soleil: True-Life Thug Life in Haiti

    LAPD vet says Seattle's proposed gang task force will be “ineffective.”

  • Arts

    January 24, 2007

    SUNDAY

    Biking Bravado and a Talk by PNB's Swans

  • News

    January 17, 2007

    Stonewashed: At the Laundromat

    Sentencing time for a Seattle attorney whose literal approach to money-laundering got national laughs.

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Paper Tiger

    The P-I tells the News Council to eat shit— for good reason.

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    Bad Boys

    A Bellingham biker thought he could clean up a notorious motorcycle gang, but his reform efforts crashed and he's pleaded guilty to conspiracy.

  • News

    March 1, 2006

    The 'Jewish' Con

    Incarcerated gang members and murderers here and elsewhere are abusing freedom of religion to get special treatment.

  • Arts

    May 4, 2005

    Beats, Rhymes, and Life

    Jeff Chang chronicles the hip-hop generation, while Peter Shapiro dissects its records.

  • Film

    July 2, 2003

    Gangs of New York

    Miramax Home Ent., $29.99

  • Film

    January 22, 2003

    Crime Lessons

    A Brazilian gangster epic that's everything Gangs of New York should have been.

  • News

    December 25, 2002

    When Attorneys Attack

    Another Seattle nightclub owner dodges bullets—and then the crossfire of rival gangs of lawyers.

  • Film

    December 18, 2002

    Natural Bored Killers

    Scorsese's gangster epic is a masterpiece of design and a storytelling disaster.

  • Arts

    March 13, 2002

    Small World

    'Nuff Said'

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Race riot?

    The role of race in the Mardi Gras riots remains unclear.

  • Music

    January 31, 2001

    Jailhouse rap

    The role of race in the Mardi Gras riots remains unclear.

  • News

    March 17, 1999

    Let's check on the score in the Olympiadome.

    The role of race in the Mardi Gras riots remains unclear.

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Cops and renters

    The role of race in the Mardi Gras riots remains unclear.

  • News

    October 21, 1998

    Cops & Angels

    The Mounties think the bikers are at the center of British Columbia's billion-dollar drug trade. So how come they can't bust them?

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