City leaders joined Mayor Bruce Harrell for an open discussion about community safety challenges, accomplishments, and opportunities at Seattle’s Central Library.
More than 200 people attended Thursday’s public forum meeting aimed at making the city of Seattle safer."Public safety is not just our first charter responsibility as a city, it is the top issue for our community today. I look forward to meeting with neighbors to hear their concerns and ideas, and to share the actions we are taking," said Harrell. " I am proud of our work to diversify public response options, address gun violence, and improve response times.
He also mentioned that the city has worked to get more than 1,500 illegal guns off the streets in the past year.Adding to the conversation was Seattle Police Chief Adrien Diaz who talked about the shootings."Detectives are working extremely hard, doing everything they can to solve these cases," said Diaz. "We’re working to have justice for the families that are impacted as well as the communities involved.
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