Sad news.  More car prowls to report.

Mary, who lives on N 78th St at Stone Ave N, shared some information with us about two incidents.

On Wednesday morning (November 4th), she found broken car window glass on Stone Ave N. It turned out that this was the scene of a car prowl that happened around 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon.  The victim was an after-school assistant at Daniel Bagley Elementary School.

Last week, Mary found “what looked like items dumped on the parking strip from a theft (or perhaps a very harried parent trying to get kids to school) – a nice green Land’s End backpack filled with diapers and other baby supplies, and a pink sleeping bag/comforter in a white garbage bag.” The backpack has since been reunited with a neighbor whose van was broken into back in September on N 78th St between Stone Ave N and Aurora Ave N.  The pink sleeping bag, however, has not yet been claimed.  If it’s yours, drop us a line at tips@mygreenlake.com and we’ll hook you up with Mary.

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Car prowls have also recently been reported at E Green Lake Drive N at Corliss Ave N and the Green Lake Preschool and Green Lake School-Age Care Program.  We’ve also heard rumors of car prowls in the zoo parking lot, although those have not been confirmed.

Some good news:  the Seattle Police Department’s Community Police Teams (CPT) have increased their presence in the area.

While patrol officers assigned to a certain beat and sector are usually very familiar with the area they patrol, CPT Officers go one step further. CPT officers do not respond to 911 calls for service and are instead assigned a specific area to focus on long-term, often chronic problems. They patrol many times a day, checking and re-checking known “hot spots”.

It is their job to know the residents in troubled apartments, to recognize by sight, the “regulars” who congregate on the corner, and to understand the ongoing problems and concerns of neighbors and businesses. Residents and business owners get to know and trust the officers, making it easier to work together to resolve and prevent problems. CPT is about understanding ongoing issues that go back weeks and months and taking steps to prevent problems before they arise. The officers are a unique and invaluable resource in the communities they serve.

[Seattle Police]

Green Lake’s CPT officer is Travis Testerman.  If you have any information about the recent upsurge in this area’s car prowls (or any other crime, for that matter), please drop him a line at travis.testerman@seattle.gov.  And us too, if you feel so inclined.

And, hey, while we’re on the topic of the SPD: yay SPD. We love you.  Keep up all of the good work.   xox