Ballard-Our neighborhood is running rampant with thieves.

Our triplex and most of our neighbors have had vehicles broken into, garages broken into, packages stolen (including locked mailboxes broken into) and almost all of us have had attempted/successful break ins to our homes my neighbor 2 houses down has video of a gentleman walking up and taking his dog. We have called SPD and have basically been told there’s nothing that can be done. This has been a daily occurrence in the blocks around our place. I myself have had someone trying to break in my back door and called 911 and was admonished by the dispatcher and was told to call the non emergency line… while they were trying to break in the door with a crowbar and a sledgehammer. Then they didn’t even show up for 6 hours and when they did the officer scolded me for pointing my shotgun at the guy trying to break in and said he should arrest me for threatening violence with a firearm.

I’m including a video it’s a little over 6m long. In it you can see cars getting broken into, houses being cased. And some people who we think are either hiding from a truck or potentially cut through our yard and stole our neighbors packages because that did happen today and their camera lens was spray painted at that same time stamp. In one of the clips you can see someone with a dog come out of the house across the street and watch the car getting rummaged through. That house was broken into the same night and they don’t have a dog. So we assume there is a team working together. It is mind boggling that the police department who has been given evidence of a string of breaking and robberies in the same area says they can’t do anything about it. It feels more like they just don’t care and won’t do anything.