Written by From: “Denis Law” <dlaw@ci.renton.wa.us> Date: March 1, 2008 12:53:35 PM PST
To: “Don Persson” <dpersson@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Greg Taylor” <gtaylor@ci.renton.wa.us>, “King Parker” <kparker@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Marcie Palmer” <mpalmer@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Randy Corman” <rcorman@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Rich Zwicker” <rzwicker@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Terri Briere” <tbriere@ci.renton.wa.us>
Cc: “Jay Covington” <jcovington@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Julia Medzegian” <jmedzegian@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Kevin Milosevich” <kmilosevich@ci.renton.wa.us>
Subject: Benson/Cascade
Dear Councilmembers,
The city of Renton grew by 16,272 residents today with little obvious impact. I spent the evening out with the police last night and it was a relatively quiet . There were many traffic stops, a narcotics arrest and clearly a significant police presence. Those driving the area were certainly aware that Renton Police were in the neighborhood, and the King County Sheriff added extra cars to assist during the transition.
In addition to extra patrol officers today, the Traffic Division has been working the area. They have made some warrant arrests and there was an armed robbery at the Mission Ridge apartments on the Petrovitsky Road. It was apparently a drug-deal gone bad.
I recommend you drive the area if you have not yet done so. It’s quite large and there are a lot of homes, including some very nice neighborhoods. And there are tons of apartments, which have been the focal point of a lot of crime activity. We had adopted a little city!
So far, so good! I’ll let you know if there is any other news this weekend.
Denis
Kudo’s to the Police
Let’s face it – the Police are going to bear the brunt of the Benson addition.
I hope they have the resources to clean the place up.
As and aside, the Renton police were doing King County’s job again in Skyway this morning. They had a car surrounded with 5 Renton police cars, and then five more King County sheriff’s cars behind them. You could certainly tell who got their first and was on top of their jobs.
I’m glad they have the courage and leeway to tack down crime there, but I hope the county gives us SERIOUS money if they want us to take in Skyway.
Re: Kudo’s to the Police
Is there anything Rentonites can do to prevent an annexation of an area that would place additional burden upon city resources?