New crime data shows optimistic outlook for downtown Seattle

Seattle’s ever-rising crime statistics, paired with a depleting police force and a holiday season that is drowning in inflating prices, creates a pretty grim outlook for the city’s near future.

But after Mayor Bruce Harrell “sounded like the gung-ho football player he once was” when he announced Seattle is back for the holiday season last week, according to Seattle Times’ columnist Danny Westneat, maybe there is some truth to those words.

“If you were to go downtown, and I would actually suggest that you do, it is a big change. Big change from what we were seeing during the pandemic, and even post-pandemic, when everyone expected that there would

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