I read a story on that a couple days ago:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/4077666.html
But Seattle's murder rate is low for a city of nearly 600,000. There were 24 killings in 2004 and 25 last year. Boston, of comparable size, had 61 in 2004 and 73 last year.
Seattle is now at at least 18 for this year, with six of them coming in one mass shooting alone.
Vancouver had 19 murders in 2005.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...c7a62e&k=21678