Young families feel like hostages in their own homes.
Parents forbid their children from playing in their own yards.
Others blamed a lack of resources. Those were the same lame excuses tavern owners Oscar and Barbara McCoy heard when they called police to report suspected criminal activity in their Central District neighborhood. Every resident of Seattle deserves to be free and safe from destructive and disruptive illegal drug crime. Instead of arresting drug dealers in public parks and streets, City Attorney Mark Sidran and the Seattle Police Department have focused their energies on taking away private property from people like the McCoys. The measure was passed to make it easier for law enforcement to clear out drug dens.