The South Seattle Crime Prevention Council (SSCPC) wants safe and enjoyable places in which our residents can live, play, and work our community's livability-and the police's ability to serve and protect us-is deleteriously affected by the underreporting of crime. Based upon several door-to-door surveys conducted by concerned community members, only 10-25% of all crimes in the South Precinct are reported to the police. For a variety of reasons, some explained above, people in our community do not call 9-1-1 as much as people in other Seattle police precincts. Police personnel/resources are allocated to precincts based on the volume of telephone calls placed to 9-1-1.
Also, a number of us may be hesitant about contacting police out of concerns such as "disloyalty" or fear of shaming or retaliation.Īdditionally, our south Seattle community is unfortunately penalized for the diversity many of us treasure. The areas served by the South Precinct are enjoyable because of this diversity yet the very element which makes our community so special poses complex challenges to our police officers: Due to the many languages spoken in our neighborhood and the many cultural customs/practices, it often takes police extra effort and time to gather case information.
#SEATTLE POLICE BLOTTER SOUTH PRECINCT CODE#
The South Precinct includes all of the 98118 zip code, among the most culturally and ethnically/racially diverse zip codes in the US, and parts of zip code areas 98178, 98108, 98134, and 98144. The Challenges of Policing in the South Precinct Unfortunately, the changes to the Othello/Myrtle corridor has affected easy navigability of this major east-west thoroughfare for emergency vehicles. Othello/Myrtle has undergone the elimination of one lane of traffic, in each direction, a practice called a road diet further, bike lanes have been added. The sole east-west corridor which extends through most (yet not all) of our precinct is Othello/Myrtle. Way South, has been problematized by the at-grade, street-level tracks of Sound Transit's Link Light Rail.
The small number of east-west and north-south corridors make traveling through the South Precinct challenging for police officers.ĭriving one of the few north-south corridors, Martin Luther King, Jr. Unlike other parts of Seattle, many south Seattle streets and roads were not established in a grid pattern, resulting in a limited number of north-south and east-west corridors. Our precinct, the South Precinct, is defined by the area from I-90 (roughly, the precinct's northern boundary) to Seattle's City Limits (southern boundary), and from the Duwamish Waterway (western boundary) to Lake Washington (eastern boundary). If anyone has any information about this case, or the whereabouts of Martinez-Cosman please call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.The Lay of the Land: Topography of the South Precinct Seattle Police detectives have identified and interviewed him. Martinez-Cosman was last seen with the male depicted in the photo below. Martinez-Cosman is approximately 5’9” inches tall and weighs approximately 135 pounds. Martinez-Cosman is a 58-year-old female with green eyes and brown hair. Martinez-Cosman has not contacted her family since.
Seattle Police detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating Leticia Martinez-Cosman who was last seen Friday evening on March 31 st at T-Mobile Park during the Seattle Mariners game. If anyone has any information about this case, or the whereabouts of Martinez-Cosman, please call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000. The suspect was also booked into KCJ for investigation of theft and assault. A 46-year-old male suspect has been booked into King County Jail for investigation of murder and kidnapping.
Police have made an arrest related to this case. Seattle Police detectives are again asking for the public’s help in locating Leticia Martinez-Cosman.
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