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BY JACINDA HOWARD [email protected] Several of the items included in a new joint policing plan between Sound Transit, Federal Way police and King County Metro to provide more coverage at the Federal Way Transit Center are direct results of significant incidents that have taken place at the facility. is past April, a man was se- verely assaulted by a group of men at the transit center following an altercation between the victim and suspects. e victim suffered bro- ken bones and his jaw was wired shut to allow it to heal. Aſter the incident, Federal Way police an- nounced they would utilize three cameras with direct-feed to the Safe City program to help decrease crime at the center. Police hoped to have the cameras active by June. Wiring and other electrical work prolonged the installation until Oct. 14, Cmdr. Stan McCall said. e upgrade of roughly 30 cameras to high-resolution models . com FEDERAL WAY M IRROR YOU’LL LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MIRROR | 50¢ SPORTS | Meet the ‘Ironwoman.’ Plus: City bids for 2011 NCAA swim meet [18] CHILI COOK-OFF | Event organizers hand out checks to charities [10] CRIME BLOTTER | Two children, ages 2 and 4, are left home alone [5] VOL. 10, NO. 180 DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009 OPINION | Hobbs: Story for Federal Way veterans [6] Letters to the editor: Local election issues and more [6, 7, 8, 9] ACCIDENTAL DEATH | Man and woman are found dead in a hot tub [3] COMMUNITY CALENDAR | Upcoming local events and happenings [16] [ more FLU page 2 ] BY JACINDA HOWARD [email protected] Beginning next month, an agreement between local police, Sound Transit and King County Metro is expected to provide long- term heightened security at the Federal Way Transit Center. In the past, security at the trans- portation hub has been a compli- cated issue. e center is at 31621 23rd Ave. S. in Federal Way. Sound Transit owns the facil- ity. King County Metro and Sound Transit operate there. Sev- eral high-profile cases, including homicides and assaults, have taken place at the transit center in recent years. e incidents, in part, spurred the joint policing agreement. “We want that place to be safe and stay safe,” Federal Way police Cmdr. Stan McCall said. Starting Nov. 2, Sound Transit police will be on duty at the center 50 hours a week, from 2 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday. Staff with Securitas, the private security company contracted by Sound Transit, will remain on duty at all times and will also patrol the parking lot. “at’s a big jump from our previous staffing levels,” Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray said. “You’re going to see a stron- ger presence down there from now on.” Federal Way police will continue to frequent the center at random times throughout the weekdays. e force will also offer coverage on weekends. A six-person special operations team of primarily of- ficers on bicycles and dual-sport [ more TRANSIT page 4] Joint policing plan and classical music among weapons intended to reduce crime at FW hub Transit center: Steps toward safety Violent incidents spark action As part of a recent joint policing plan between Federal Way police, Sound Transit and King County Metro, the bustling Federal Way Transit Center will see regularly scheduled police patrols and more hours dedicated to protecting the public there. Below: A September shooting at the transit center is one of a handful of incidents that led to the joint policing plan. MIRROR FILE PHOTOS BY KYRA LOW [email protected] Federal Way is one of four locations in King County that will have H1N1 vaccines available. On Wednesday, the Federal Way Public Health Center first started vaccina- tions for people with the highest risk for complica- tions. e clinics opened at 8:30 a.m., and by 10:30 a.m., there were already 232 people vaccinated across the four sites, said Nicole Sadow-Hasenberg, spokes- woman for Public Health in Seattle and King County. e clinics are for those who do not have health insurance. e other locations are at the White Center Public Health Center, the Alder Square Public Health Cen- ter and the North Public Health Center. “We have the vaccine,” Sadow-Hasenberg said. “We are anticipating the clinics going on for months.” Currently, the clinics are for H1N1 (“swine flu”) vac- cines, although most clinics do have the seasonal flu shot on hand, she said. “We are monitoring (our supply levels) all the time,” Sadow-Hasenberg said. “New supplies will arrive.” e clinics are opened for people up to age 64 who have significant health programs that put them at H1N1 flu: Vaccines available SPECIAL REPORT was also in response to criminal activity at the transit center. e step-up in security was prompted by a January 2008 shooting at the transit center. A bystander, Darrel Miller, 38, was killed when a sus- pect shot at an acquaintance and missed, hitting Miller. Glenn C. Proctor, age 20 at the time, was identified by a witness as the shooter. He was apprehended and charged with second-degree murder. Existing video of the shooting was of poor quality, but an electronics engineer proved in court that the person on tape was not Proctor, who was subsequently released from jail 11 months aſter his arrest. Jim Ferrell and other Federal Way City Council mem- bers strongly advocated for better cameras at the transit center. Not being able to serve justice because of a lack of sophisticated [ more VIOLENCE page 4]
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BY JACINDA HOWARD
Several of the items included in a new joint policing plan between Sound Transit, Federal Way police and King County Metro to provide more coverage at the Federal Way Transit Center are direct results of signi� cant incidents that have taken place at the facility.
� is past April, a man was se-verely assaulted by a group of men at the transit center following an altercation between the victim and suspects. � e victim su� ered bro-ken bones and his jaw was wired shut to allow it to heal. A� er the incident, Federal Way police an-nounced they would utilize three cameras with direct-feed to the Safe City program to help decrease crime at the center. Police hoped to have the cameras active by June. Wiring and other electrical work prolonged the installation until Oct. 14, Cmdr. Stan McCall said.
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SPORTS | Meet the ‘Ironwoman.’ Plus: City bids for 2011 NCAA swim meet [18]
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR | Upcoming local events and happenings [16]
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BY JACINDA HOWARD
Beginning next month, an agreement between local police, Sound Transit and King County Metro is expected to provide long-term heightened security at the Federal Way Transit Center.
In the past, security at the trans-portation hub has been a compli-cated issue. � e center is at 31621 23rd Ave. S. in Federal Way.
Sound Transit owns the facil-ity. King County Metro and Sound Transit operate there. Sev-eral high-pro� le cases, including homicides and assaults, have taken place at the transit center in recent years. � e incidents, in part, spurred the joint policing agreement.
“We want that place to be safe and stay safe,” Federal Way police Cmdr. Stan McCall said.
Starting Nov. 2, Sound Transit police will be on duty at the center 50 hours a week, from 2 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday. Sta� with Securitas, the private security company contracted by Sound Transit, will remain on duty at all times and will also patrol the parking lot.
“� at’s a big jump from our previous sta� ng levels,” Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray said. “You’re going to see a stron-ger presence down there from now on.”
Federal Way police will continue to frequent the center at random times throughout the weekdays. � e force will also o� er coverage on weekends. A six-person special operations team of primarily of-� cers on bicycles and dual-sport
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Joint policing plan and classical music among weapons intended to reduce crime at FW hub
Transit center: Steps toward safety
Violent incidents spark action
As part of a recent joint policing plan between Federal Way police, Sound Transit and King County Metro, the bustling Federal Way Transit Center will see regularly scheduled police patrols and more hours dedicated to protecting the public there. Below: A September shooting at the transit center is one of a handful of incidents that led to the joint policing plan.
MIRROR FILE PHOTOS
BY KYRA LOW
Federal Way is one of four locations in King County that will have H1N1 vaccines available.
On Wednesday, the Federal Way Public Health Center � rst started vaccina-tions for people with the highest risk for complica-tions.
� e clinics opened at 8:30 a.m., and by 10:30 a.m., there were already 232 people vaccinated across the four sites, said Nicole Sadow-Hasenberg, spokes-woman for Public Health in Seattle and King County.
� e clinics are for those who do not have health insurance.
� e other locations are at the White Center Public Health Center, the Alder Square Public Health Cen-ter and the North Public Health Center.
“We have the vaccine,” Sadow-Hasenberg said. “We are anticipating the clinics going on for months.”
Currently, the clinics are for H1N1 (“swine � u”) vac-cines, although most clinics do have the seasonal � u shot on hand, she said.
“We are monitoring (our supply levels) all the time,” Sadow-Hasenberg said. “New supplies will arrive.”
� e clinics are opened for people up to age 64 who have signi� cant health programs that put them at
H1N1 flu: Vaccines available
SPECIALREPORT
was also in response to criminal activity at the transit center. � e step-up in security was prompted by a January 2008 shooting at the transit center. A bystander, Darrel Miller, 38, was killed when a sus-pect shot at an acquaintance and missed, hitting Miller.
Glenn C. Proctor, age 20 at the time, was identi� ed by a witness as the shooter. He was apprehended and charged with second-degree murder. Existing video of the
shooting was of poor quality, but an electronics engineer proved in court that the person on tape was not Proctor, who was subsequently released from jail 11 months a� er his arrest. Jim Ferrell and other Federal Way City Council mem-bers strongly advocated for better cameras at the transit center.
Not being able to serve justice because of a lack of sophisticated
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motorbikes will take on the task of � ghting crime at the transit center, as well as in the downtown core, Federal Way police Cmdr. Chris Norman said.
Bicycles and motorbikes allow more interaction with the public, he said. � ey are also more discreet and o� er better maneuverability around the dense down-town area, Norman said.
King County Metro po-lice will conduct emphasis patrols and undercover operations at least once per month for six consecutive months. � e cooperative policing agreement is a one-year pilot plan.
“We’ve really come to-gether, agreed to cooperate,” said Andy Hwang, Federal Way interim police chief.
Sound Transit and FW police
� e transit center opened in 2006. � ere has been cooperation between Sound Transit and Federal Way
technology is unacceptable, Ferrell said in April.
“What really spurred my interest is this homicide case went unsolved,” Ferrell said at the time. “We cannot have that happen again.”
� e costs for all the cameras was covered by a Homeland Security grant obtained by Sound Transit.
More recently, 19-year-old De’Von Winston-Parks was shot and killed in September by a known acquaintance at the transit center. An on-duty Federal Way o� cer was in the area, quickly ap-prehended the shooter and took into custody another man who, at the time, was identi� ed as a probable suspect.
� e shooting came short-ly a� er Federal Way police scaled back on a summer initiative to have more pres-ence downtown, at parks and along attractions such as the BPA trail.
No serious incidents oc-curred while the initiative was in place, interim police chief Andy Hwang said. � e joint plan introduces a special unit to patrol the
downtown area on a long-term basis.
� e plan is an example of what Federal Way police do on a consistent basis in their e� orts to curb crime, said Steve Neal, interim deputy police chief.
“In police work, we are constantly evaluating,
restructuring and re-evaluating,” he said.
� e high-pro� le events that hap-pened at the transit
center make Federal Way appear as though
it has a higher crime rate than it does, Hwang said. Crime is lower than the public’s perception, he said.
Across the state, of cities with populations of 50,000 plus, Federal Way has the fourth lowest index crime rate. In Western Washing-ton, it ranks second lowest in the same category.
� e transit center contin-ues to be an area of concern because it is a destination, as opposed to other re-gional transit hubs in more desolate locations, Hwang said. Riders speci� cally come to the Federal Way Transit Center as a means of visiting � e Commons mall and other attractions, he said. Several bus lines also end in Federal Way.
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to patrol the center, but never has such a concrete plan been in place to detail the days and times each of the agencies will provide policing, Hwang said. � e former plan consisted of random and frequent patrols by both agencies, he said.
Sound Transit contracted with the private com-pany Securitas to provide security at the transit center when it � rst opened, Gray said. It also worked closely with Federal Way police. � is is the model Sound Transit has adopted at all its transit centers, he said.
In spring 2008, Sound Transit gave Federal Way police one-time fund-ing to cover overtime pay
for extra patrols to assist security sta� at the center, Gray said. � is past April, Sound Transit created its own police force, com-prised of contracted King County Sheri� deputies, to cover several of the regional transportation hubs it operates, including Federal Way’s facility. Securitas sta� remain in place. Federal Way continues periodic patrols of the center.
Sound Transit police regularly frequent the cen-ter, Gray said. � e agency does not give the speci� c days and times the agency’s police are on duty, he said. � e ambiguity of when Sound Transit patrols will be present makes it di� cult for Federal Way to provide
Police also focus on downtown
a consistent presence at the transit center, Federal Way police o� cers said. Sound Transit has not provided Federal Way a schedule of its patrols, McCall said.
“We never really knew when (Sound Transit po-lice) would be there or not,” Norman said.
Once the joint policing plan kicks in, the police agency on duty at the time will handle all minor criminal issues and com-plaints. In any signi� cant event, such as a shooting or stabbing, Federal Way of-� cers will respond and take charge of the investigation, McCall said.
Other features of the policing plan include: � e installation of high-resolu-tion cameras, the playing of classical music over a loud speaker system, signs and stickers indicating the pres-ence of police and video surveillance, a portable ra-dio for Sound Transit police to directly contact Federal Way police, and access by Federal Way police to the substation on the trans-portation platform, where patrons wait for buses.
Federal Way is the only city Sound Transit has engaged with in a joint policing plan to cover a transportation center:
“We are seeing we’re needing to do more in Fed-eral Way,” Gray said.
High-profile homicides
SPECIALREPORT A shooting death in September at the Federal Way Transit Center has
helped fuel a debate over safety at the center. Sound Transit and the Federal Way police have teamed up with a joint policing plan. FILE PHOTO
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