“I don’t want to over-promise that somehow the court has all of the answers.'
“We’re going to continue to work with SPD and the mayor’s office to do that, as well as any other city in King County that wants some help,” he continued. “Over the last two years, there have been a number of places in King County where a vacuum has been created, and nature abhors a vacuum. Into that moves people who have behavioral health issues, are homeless, or just want to participate in crime. And that’s where we’re going to focus.
An obvious mitigating factor to the success of hotspot policing is the idea that those exhibiting signs of obvious crime along the corridors in question are actors in good faith with the faculties to negotiate the criminal justice system in a way in which prosecution is equipped to handle. “The Supreme Court … invalidated the drug possession statute that we have … had for 50 years,” Satterberg said.