By
Siv Prince
April 29, 2008
In addition to the violent brawl that broke out on the corner of Northeast 52nd Street and University Way Northeast Wednesday night, police had their hands full with several other incidents this week.
Just a few minutes before the fight that resulted in one man being stabbed, a young woman was walking alone near the intersection of Northeast 47th Street and Northeast 18th Avenue. At approximately 1:48 a.m., several men emerged from a vehicle and held the young woman at knifepoint, according to the UW Police Department.
The suspects demanded several personal belongings, including her cell phone. They did not injure the victim and fled the scene. One suspect was described as a white male in his 20s, about 5 feet 7 inches, wearing a black baseball cap and a dark hooded sweatshirt. No arrests have been made, according to the Seattle Police.
This past Tuesday, the UWPD responded to a call from one of the several blue emergency phones located on campus. A female student phoned the police from a blue phone near Hansee Hall. She said she was alone and experiencing symptoms of a diabetic emergency. An ambulance and a UWPD officer responded.
“It (the blue phone) is like a beacon: It tells us where the call is coming from,” Officer R. Wilson of the UWPD said. “It’s very specific.”
Wilson said the blue emergency phones allow police to respond to calls within minutes. The UWPD encourage students to familiarize themselves with the locations of these phones on campus.
The student was treated at the scene.
Finally, on April 20, otherwise known as 4-20, the UWPD made one, single report of a drug violation.
3 Comments
#1 420
on April 29, 2008 at 4:18 p.m.(Seattle, WA | Unverified Name)
If you're going to give a descriptive statistic about drug arrests on a particular day and expect us to get any meaning out of it, would you please give us at least 2 more year's worth of data for the same day?
I, unlike a lot of idiots, cannot read into descriptive stats.
#2 Siv
on April 30, 2008 at 1:36 p.m.(Seattle, WA | Unverified Name)
Last time I checked, the number one was not a statistic. It was a number. Like, you know, three or seven of fifty-six. Get it?
Also, they don't usually have two months worth of data for the same day - you know, because one day happens that day.
I'll help you out - one person was written up for drugs by the UWPD on April 20th, 2008. Does that help?
#3 Commenteer
on May 2, 2008 at 7:44 p.m.(Seattle, WA | Unverified Name)
Siv, the number of drug violations on a given day is a statistic. However, how many drug violations were there on April 20, 2007? 2006? 2005? If you were trying to infer on April 20th, a day celebrated by the cannabis-consuming counter culture, there were few violations on campus, great. But how do I know that 1 is a small number of drug violations for 4/20? You need to provide more data.
Relativity applies to more than physics.
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