why so many gangs in Seattle?....Washington? (Bellevue, Redmond: violent crime, live in)

[fairwood44]

Originally Posted by ST CRoix To Seattle

gangs in Seattle what a joke...

try walkin into my neighborhood in renton sayin that.

[vette-dude]

Originally Posted by toughguy

LOL there are more gangs in Spokane and Ellensburg than there are in the Puget Sound area.

You sound like a politican, where do you get your information?
Very likey that is a "NOT" a true statement...in regards to Spokane and Ellensburg...sorry try again with facts next time.

[AK 47u]

Originally Posted by vette-dude

You sound like a politican, where do you get your information?
Very likey that is a "NOT" a true statement...in regards to Spokane and Ellensburg...sorry try again with facts next time.

lmfao. More gangs in Ellensburg and Spokabe then Puget SOund? Try south for Lakewood to Everett and say that

[doulamama]

When I worked graveyard shift in Kent about 2 years ago there was a driveby at my work! Who in the hell would shoot up a Mcdonalds?? (I was a manager at the time) And then after they shot up there they went across the road and shot up the 7/11! I guess it doesnt really matter where you live anymore... unless you live out in the boondocks or fancy smancy neighborhoods. But even then ya never know. BUT I dont think alot of these crimes happening around seattle or wa are gang related. I think mostly its just a bunch of wanna be punks or wanna be gangsters. Lotsa those around here in South King...

[whitecenter206]

alright so look im a youth living in white center and ive lived here all my life and there is a MAJOR problem with the way people in seattle look at this gang issue for people in the subs life is just great they experence the seattle that we all know its rep for but what people dont get is that there is a whole other sociaty that is hushed by the politicians and all the so called liberals and hippies and all that other crap seattle is known for gangs have been here for a longgg time my dad is in a gang and so is my brothers my youngest one being in elementry the family structure with everyone i know is messed up its weird to me to think of people having 2 parants that are together and are ur real mom and dad poverty is a serious thing to i was born in park lake homes behind evergreen highschool incase you dont know those are projects my neighborhood (white center) isnt safe AT ALL on the weekends at night there is gurenteed at least one or two shootings usaly being on friday and i dont mean shooting as in some one dieing or even getting hit i mean u can here shots or see people shooting at dumb stuff like signs either way the cops eventully come and some one eventully gets hit the entire neighborhood is tagged up by gang graffitie rivals and drugs mainly meth and ecstacy is a HUGE problem i cant walk around with out getting botherd by sum basehead atleast once with them trying to sell me there watch or sumthing lol ive known people that have died this year do to gang violence from my neighborhood and others and well the real reason im writing this is i wanna open your eyes to a seattle u never thought was real theres much more to say but i dont wanna write even more then i have lol one thing i will say is why do people that are so far removed from this envoirment make fun of it and constantly try to deny that it exists?? and i always here well i can drive through there and not get shot so it must be a ok neighborhood OK well try to live there go to school there and really live life here u will get so cought up in everything around u and if ur hated you WILL get shot or at least beat up and robbed

[Pygmonicus]

There are plenty of gangs in seattle lol hell there are bloods in madison park, they've been there since i was a child. Most of the gangsters here are bored (upper) middle class black people with guns and nothing to do.

[MichaelinWA]

The Seattle-PI had a "gang map" recently.

Gang link seen in shootings (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/389292_shootings25.html - broken link)

[movingwiththewind]

Originally Posted by Modena04

I swear I have never seen so much concentration of gangs and wannabe gangs in the US. Not even in cali!


what gives??



suddenly I am thinking my move to Seattle was a dumb idea

There is a research showing very strong relationship between clouds and gangs gatherings. According to the research, gangs and clouds love each other. This is why Seattle is not only the rain, but, also, the gang capitol of the United States. This is why, according to the same research, the further south and sunnier you go, the fewer gangs you will see. Those few gangs in a more sun friendly areas also have fewer gang members! The research compares major cities on the Pacific coast of US. Because LA has no clouds but only some smog, there are no gangs in LA. It's because gangs don't like smog. It makes them sick (astma). So they move north. Unfortunately, all decent people leave Seattle and move south! Also, please keep in mind that because all decent people probably already left Seattle, all Seattlites posting in this forum are probably gang members . This may be the reason why locals are so reluctant to admit the obvious

[Taboo2]

Originally Posted by Modena04

I swear I have never seen so much concentration of gangs and wannabe gangs in the US. Not even in cali!


what gives??



suddenly I am thinking my move to Seattle was a dumb idea

depends on where in Cali you came from. I have spent much time in Seattle and never saw a gang member there. From Queen Anne to Redmond, to Bellevue to West Seattle to Madrona.

Never saw 1 gang member.

What are neighborhoods are they frequenting up in Seattle?

Here is how you know you have gangs around.
People start dying.
Not getting robbed (normal teens can do that), not getting burglarized (kids do that to), not when your car is stolen or broken into(again darn kids), but when people start shooting each other to KILL.

You will see a spike in murders in the affected areas. If you have a once off shooting every so often, that is NOT true gang activity, because real gangs do retalliation. And you would have a lot of innocecnt bystanders getting shot as well.

[hollandv]

Ostriches who see no gang activity, get your heads out of the sand.

Excerpted from nwgangs.com:

UPDATE: 11/24/2008- Busy, busy weekend in Seattle. If you haven't heard there were several shootings in the Seattle area over the weekend, two of them I know have ties to local gangs. You can read the news stories above. Because of this I was interviewed on 710 KIRO radio today and because of that I'm seeing more than the normal amout of e-mails. So I will write back ASAP.

Also this weekend I was in Yakima and took around 70 new graffiti photos for the website. So check out the new photo album and I will get them posted real soon!