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Seattle Mayor Announces New Plan to Reduce Gun Violence in the City
Wilson’s plan gives CARE a larger role, adds youth services and patrols, and seeks to redirect city funds as Seattle weighs a $175 million deficit.
- On Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced a comprehensive gun violence reduction plan integrating community intervention, emergency response, and youth services. Wilson stated Seattle "will not accept gun violence as inevitable."
- The initiative follows relentless criticism from local businesses and media following the Bite of Seattle mass shooting in July and violent Labor Day weekend shootings that killed three people and injured three more.
- Wilson's proposal expands the CARE Department's role in 911 dispatch, shifts about $5 million in violence interruption contracts, and invests more than $600,000 in youth programs at Rainier Beach High School.
- Meanwhile, Seattle City Councilmember Maritza Rivera is pushing a competing "focused deterrence" strategy, with councilmembers set to vote Tuesday on her $418,000 resolution to hire outside consultants.
- Political friction escalated as Rivera stated Wilson is "more interested in disparaging my concrete effort," while Wilson dismissed the council proposal as not a time for "grandstanding.
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