We got a note from Jeffrey this morning about a woman he believes was a prostitute looking for customers along Greenwood Avenue.
On way to work at about 8:10 am, saw sight usually found on 99. Young female, lots make up, strolling slowly on west side of Greenwood at about 70th. Looking at cars, following them with her eyes. I was suspicious. When I drove by looked over and she made eye contact and gave a half-wave and a look. I take 99 south to work everyday so I know what a woman who is “working” looks and acts like. No doubt she was prostitute. Looks like maybe SPD has driven someone off 99 and onto our neighborhood main drag? If I wasn’t running late would have told her I was gonna call the cops. Will drop a line to N. Precinct so it is documented.
Not a real law and order type, but hookers on Greenwood cannot be tolerated. Hard drug use, theft, and violence are the fellow travelers of the oldest profession.
I called the Seattle Police Department to find out exactly what someone should do if they think they see a prostitute.
“You would actually call the non-emergency number,” SPD Spokesperson Renee Witt said. “You could always say it’s a suspicious person and she appears to be soliciting.”
SPD’s non-emergency line is 206-625-5011.
39 responses so far ↓
1 spring // Aug 19, 2010 at 9:56 am
You should come up to 105th and Greenwood, they are all over every day along with every thing else.
2 sezdog // Aug 19, 2010 at 10:06 am
I agree this shouldn’t be tolerated. The “johns” & pimps are what I find creepy. The “john’s” start seeing any lone female as a possible prostitute, not to mention the implied threat of pimps.
I have occasionally seen prostitutes at 8th/85th and also saw one moving between 85th & 80th through the neighborhood between Dibble & 11th.
3 Joe // Aug 19, 2010 at 11:57 am
Wow, I’m a little appalled at Mr. Jeffrey perhaps even Phinneywood.
I live in Greenwood too, but on the first block off Aurora, and it is not uncommon to see a working girls which the neighbors and I are often calling in. But not until you see one on Greenwood do you consider it a problem that needs to be dealt with?
Aurora is not like Vages, what happens there does not just stay there, and will affect quite a distance around. And Aurora is also a “main drag” for “our neighborhood”. Along with being the main drag for most of the North End.
Please don’t have selective tolerance of crime, if you see it, call it in.
4 Whopper // Aug 19, 2010 at 12:59 pm
THat’s my wife you’re talking about!
5 Whipper // Aug 19, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Actually Whopper, I think they are talking about my boyfriend!
6 Sam // Aug 19, 2010 at 1:19 pm
A lot of them get their drugs at a house on 82nd near Greenwood. It doesn’t matter what street it’s on, call the cops. There very nice at the non emergency vice line. And the first thing they tell you is one call isn’t enough. All the neighbors need to call in.
7 JM // Aug 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I have noticed something similar over the years, but it’s not that alarming.
8 Jeremy // Aug 19, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Thanks, Joe.
9 Lexicon Grrl // Aug 19, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Maybe first something should be done about the new exotic massage parlor that’s opened up on 85th, across from the Chevron.
(Trust me on this one)
10 nettieboop // Aug 19, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I saw this also, but at 105th & Greenwood in front of the used car lot (6pm-ish.) She looked like she was WAY high and was pretty blatant about what she was doing.
11 nettieboop // Aug 19, 2010 at 2:18 pm
to the person who said this isn’t ‘very alarming’..are you kidding me??? This is a residential neighborhood, lots of families, kids, etc.. How are prostitution, drug dealing, break-ins (where there are drugs there will be crime) not ‘alarming’???
12 Steve // Aug 19, 2010 at 4:19 pm
” I know what a woman who is “working” acts like and looks like. Sounds like profiling to me
13 Whopper // Aug 19, 2010 at 4:43 pm
“Sounds like profiling to me”
Yes, god forbid, you’re supposed to be so tolerant you have the common sense of a nat……unless this is your wife Steve? Then my apologies.
14 Whopper // Aug 19, 2010 at 5:05 pm
By the way, I love hookers, especially those trannies on Broadway.
15 JM // Aug 19, 2010 at 5:23 pm
yes nettie, you are alarmed, but those are all separate crimes done by individuals – not by one woman wandering aimlessly.
16 North of 85th // Aug 19, 2010 at 5:37 pm
One lives across the street from on 3rd. She doesn’t hide it and a few officers told me they know about her. No profiling there… Just facts.
17 Greenwood_D // Aug 19, 2010 at 5:40 pm
I think you all may be overacting a bit.
Like mentioned above, prostitution IS the world’s oldest profession, and let me tell ya, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Face the facts: as the economy continues to worsen, prostitution may be coming to your neighborhood!
That being said, if it becomes a reoccurring problem around your home/neighborhood, give the SPD a jingle. In between “kicking the piss” out of innocent Hispanic bystanders, punching female jaywalkers, and pummeling mentally challenged jaywalkers at a 5-to-1 ratio, they may be able to squeeze some time in to respond to your neighborhood hooker call.
Okay, okay. Just call it in to the non-emergency number and feel good about yourself. I’ve called a couple times in the last 9 years over suspicious activities, even though I can’t really say the police even responded to any of it. At least you tried, right?
@spring
>>You should come up to 105th and Greenwood, they are all over every day along with every thing else.
I think that is stretching a bit. I’ve lived there for 9 years and seen what COULD have been a prostitute MAYBE a handful of times.
@nettieboop
>>I saw this also, but at 105th & Greenwood in front of the used car lot (6pm-ish.) She looked like she was WAY high and was pretty blatant about what she was doing.
There is a bleached-blonde wreck-of-a-chick that occasionally finds her way to the convenience store next to Adventura Mexican. I don’t think she’s a hooker, though. I think she’s just a wreck. I’ve witnessed her off and on this year hangin out over there and sometimes headin down the alleys. I think she lives in the halfway house down around 117th. She seems fairly harmless, except for the occasional smokin weed in my alley (and I usually just call it in)
No one really should be alarmed when they live so close to Aurora. They’re bound to wander over.
18 Stupid Hippie // Aug 19, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Trannies? Please, the real Whopper likes full, post-op. Trannies are just fence sitters.
Just keep the trashy hookers north of 85th will you, south of 85th we’ll stick to discreet, high class call girls.
19 Whopper // Aug 19, 2010 at 7:27 pm
“Trannies? Please, the real Whopper likes full, post-op.”
As long as she’s packin a wee-wee.
20 Whopper // Aug 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I guess without sidewalks, all babes in Greenwood are street walkers.
21 J // Aug 19, 2010 at 8:26 pm
“I guess without sidewalks, all babes in Greenwood are street walkers.”
Is that why you hate Greenwood so much, cause they won’t stop for you?
22 DW // Aug 19, 2010 at 11:25 pm
“As long as she’s packin a wee-wee.”
Uh, Whopper … doesn’t quite sound like that qualifies as a “she”.
23 Whopper // Aug 20, 2010 at 7:14 am
@22
#19 wishes he were the real Whopper…
24 Whopper // Aug 20, 2010 at 7:16 am
“Is that why you hate Greenwood so much, cause they won’t stop for you?”
No, it’s mainly because they can’t break a $10 bill.
25 nettieboop // Aug 20, 2010 at 9:18 am
Steve…I lived in Vancouver, B.C. for 10 years where the drug and prostitution problem is horrendous. I lived in a seedy part of a ‘hip’ area and that’s what I saw every day. I know what I saw, it was pretty darned obvious.
26 Lexicon Grrl // Aug 20, 2010 at 10:15 am
Well, maybe someone should pick her up, and drive her to the other side of the I-5, drop her off and tell her [politely] that she’s not welcome in Greenwood. If I was a dude (or seen her myself), I’d totally do it.
On the other hand… supply and demand? Why would hookers be on Greenwood if it’s only nice yuppie families and upstanding citizens who live here? Hmmm… suspicious, that. Thoughts, guys?
27 Whopper // Aug 20, 2010 at 10:47 am
“upstanding citizens who live here”
Sorry while I wipe the coffee off my computer screen.
28 J // Aug 20, 2010 at 10:55 am
“Well, maybe someone should pick her up, and drive her to the other side of the I-5, drop her off and tell her [politely] that she’s not welcome in Greenwood.”
That’s funny… I was just thinking the same thing, only about Whopper. Minus the polite part of course. I’d treat him like a pimp treats a disobedient hooker.
29 Whopper sucks // Aug 20, 2010 at 11:33 am
“19 wishes he were the real Whopper…”
#23 wishes he wasn’t such a #2
30 DW // Aug 20, 2010 at 11:50 am
“it’s mainly because they can’t break a $10 bill”
So let me get this straight. You enjoy patronizing hookers (as long as they work south of 85th) that cost less than $10, and also “pack a wee wee”? Disturbing, dude.
31 Kaylee // Aug 21, 2010 at 9:27 am
Wow! A young woman wearing lots of makeup at 8 in the morning! Clearly Greenwood society is crumbling.
Yes, be concerned if you see drug deals or break ins, but this young woman won’t stick around if no one is giving her money here.
Who picks up hookers at 8 in the morning??
32 J // Aug 21, 2010 at 9:56 am
“Wow! A young woman wearing lots of makeup at 8 in the morning! Clearly Greenwood society is crumbling.”
Lots of make up? Oh ya, she’s “clearly” a hooker. Younger guys hanging out on the porch with nice cars parked in front? Has to be a dope house.
Get a f—in life.
33 J // Aug 21, 2010 at 9:58 am
Or better yet… run back to that backwood small town you moved here from.
34 BC // Aug 21, 2010 at 10:40 am
“Who picks up hookers at 8 in the morning??”
Umm, just a idea, but maybe she wasn’t a hooker? Perhaps she has a real job and was on her way there? Other than the fact she was wearing lots of make up and walking down the street, what evidence do you have that this young woman is a hooker? I’m sorry, but hearing the way you are so quick to judge this person, you just come off as real ignorant.
35 Whopper // Aug 21, 2010 at 9:27 pm
I agree, lots of tarted up women walk around aimlessly, in circles, looking at drivers at 8am, doesn’t mean their hookers. I mean, a week doesn’t go by when I don’t catch Mrs. Whopper batting her eyelids to motorists on the Ave and she has a law degree.
36 sezdog // Aug 23, 2010 at 11:14 am
You’d be surprised who picks up prostitutes at 8 am. The busiest day I saw for the prostitutes outside my old place of work? The day before Thanksgiving holiday. There were twice as many prostitutes working and they still couldn’t keep up with business. I learned a lot about prostitution working there.
37 Jason // Aug 23, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Legalize, regulate, zone, mandate medical check-ups, collect income tax, remove the criminal element (you’ll never get rid of all of it though)—it’s worked in some parts of the world why can’t it work here?
38 Spideygirl7 // Aug 30, 2010 at 4:53 pm
I own a place at 80th and Greenwood and we call her “Greenwood’s own prostitute”. We’ve caught her in the back of a car behind our place (in between the dance studio’s) mid day. Nice, right near kids.
39 Spideygirl7 // Aug 30, 2010 at 4:54 pm
I live near the new exotic massage place. It is creepy, open really late at night. Not good.
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