It might be Michael McGinn’s administration of the city in a nutshell — a bold willingness to experiment and seek new solutions mixed with the momentum of City Hall’s bureaucracy when one of those experiments doesn’t work.
The mayor’s office and representatives from the community and organizations around Cal Anderson are talking about a pushback on one of those experiments rolled out this summer as part of a larger initiative by McGinn in response to growing concerns about crime in the park. That initiative included thousands of dollars for new police and park rangers as well as increased patrols from the nearby East Precinct. Read more at Capitol Hill Seattle.