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Police increase presence in Seattle’s Asian neighborhoods

By Associated Press

March 18, 2021

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Steve Hirjak, right, a Seattle Assistant Chief of Police and head of SPD's Collaborative Policing Bureau, talks with Ji Young Shim, left, owner of the Seoul Tofu House and Korean BBQ restaurant in Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday during a foot patrol. Hirjak, who is Korean, is SPD's highest-ranking Asian officer and said that due to recent episodes of violence and bias against Asians in Seattle and nationwide, law-enforcement presence in Seattle's Asian neighborhoods has increased.
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Flowers and messages of support are shown near the International Full Gospel Fellowship church in Seattle. The church was one of two in the neighborhood that were hit with anti-Asian graffiti earlier in the week, one of several incidents targeting Asian neighborhoods in Seattle this year. Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday.
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Seattle Police officers confer after taking part in a public roll call at Hing Hay Park in the heart of Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday.
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Flowers are shown next to a sign at the Grace Chinese Lutheran Church in Seattle. The church was one of two in the neighborhood that were hit with anti-Asian graffiti earlier in the week, one of several incidents targeting Asian neighborhoods in Seattle this year. Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday.
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Steve Hirjak, a Seattle Assistant Chief of Police and head of SPD's Collaborative Policing Bureau, walks into a business in Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday.
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Seattle Police officers head out on bicycles after taking part in a public roll call at Hing Hay Park in the heart of Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday.
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Steve Hirjak, a Seattle Assistant Chief of Police and head of SPD's Collaborative Policing Bureau, walks through Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday.
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Pedestrians walk near the main entrance to Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday.
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A Seattle Police vehicle sits parked at Hing Hay Park in the heart of Seattle's Chinatown-International District Thursday as a community response unit of officers began their shift. Due to recent episodes of violence and bias against Asians in Seattle and nationwide, law-enforcement presence in heavily Asian neighborhoods has increased, and the group of officers recently began starting some of their shifts at the park before working foot and bicycle patrols in the area to increase security and visibility.
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