From the Blotter:

On 9/4/10, at approximately 2:47 a.m., officers responded to the 9100 block of MLK Wy S to a reported shooting at a motorcycle club-house.  The 2 victims were working as doormen to pat-down persons who weren’t Club members before they came inside.  A male showed up with several females and wanted to get in, but wouldn’t let the doormen touch his clothing.

This lead to a verbal confrontation and shots being fired from the suspect at the doormen.  Seattle Fire responded and treated both victims on the scene. They were later transported to Harborview Medical Center with non life threatening injuries. Both victims had never seen the suspect before and gave only vague physical descriptions of the shooter. One other Club member was outside and he gave a video statement to Officers.

The Gang Unit responded and processed the scene. 2 guns were recovered from Club members at the scene and

A man was shot in the leg in Belltown around 10:45 this evening.

Police were called to a parking lot near 3rd and Bell around 10:45pm, where they found a white male in his 30s with a gunshot wound to his ankle.

More info as we get it.

It's gonna be a loooooooooong night.

At least one man person shot by police in an officer-involved shooting in West Seattle this evening.

Police were responding to a shots-fired call in the 6100 block of Admiral Way just before 9:00pm.

We're told an officer fired on someone, and that person has been taken to Harborview.

We'll update with more info as we get it.

Update: Police initially got a report of a possibly suicidal man, went to a home, and found a man with a rifle.

Police say the 59-year-old man pointed an AK-47-style gun at officers before officers opened fire.

The man's current condition is unknown.

PI.com:

A Seattle police officer has been convicted of driving under the influence in Grays Harbor County.

Prosecutors say Zsolt Dornay handed his police identification with his driver's license when he was stopped and later asked a State Patrol trooper, "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Zsolt Dornay was arrested last year in Grays Harbor County and convicted Thursday.

Whether Dornay was implying a request for leniency when he handed his police identification with his license is subject to interpretation, Grays Harbor Deputy Prosecutor Gordon Wright said.

The minimum sentence Dornay could receive is one day in jail or 15 days of electronic home monitoring, Wright said. He also has to pay an $866 fine, attend a victim-impact panel, get an alcohol evaluation and possibly pay restitution for trooper's time, according to prosecutors.

Seattle police say a woman was slashed in the face during an altercation at a Belltown shelter earlier this week.

Shortly before 3:30 on August 31st, police were called to a shelter at 3rd and Virginia after receiving a report that a woman had been stabbed.

Police arrived and found a large group of women standing outside the shelter yelling that another woman inside was armed with a knife.

Officers entered the building and found and "extensive amount" of blood in several rooms, and also located the suspect, who they arrested and took to the West Precinct.

A witness told police she was in the women's bathroom when she saw the suspect approach the victim from behind.

The suspect put her arm around the victim's neck, and "made a slashing/stabbing motion at the right side" of the victim's face.

The victim sustained a 6-inch wound on her face and was taken to Harborview for her injuries.

It looks like this (minimalism):

   Author: 7592 - CLAXTON, JUSTIN C.
   Subject: NARRATIVE
Related date/time: Aug-30-2010 1800
On the above time, date and location Witness / Birk was on routine patrol
and contacted Suspect / Doe for a weapon-open knife violation.  Suspect /
Doe refused to drop the knife.    
 
Suspect /Doe was shot and was
declared dead at the scene by SFD Medic One.  The scene was then turned
over to Homicide Detectives.
I hereby declare (certify) under penalty of perjury under the laws of the
State of Washington that this report is true and correct to the best of
my knowledge and belief (RCW 9A.72.085)

The first thing I noticed about this report (other than the complete lack of information): It appears that it was written by an officer with just as little (or possibly even less) experience than Officer Ian Birk, who fatally shot John Williams in downtown Seattle earlier this week.

Police say Birk has been with the department for two years. Officer Claxton, who wrote the report for the shooting, doesn't even show up on the city's 2009 employee list.

Several men were taken to the hospital after a big brawl on Queen Anne earlier this week.

Around 2am on Augst 31, officers responded to a restaurant located on 5th and Queen Anne Ave north after receiving a report of 12-20 people brawling in the business's parking lot.

Police detained two men and the scene, and found a third man laying unconscious on the ground.

Witnesses told police the melee began inside the restaurant after several men got into a "verbal altercation," according to a police report.

Several of the men involved in the conflict left the restaurant, and another group of men followed them.

When the group reached the parking lot, one of the suspects punched the victim, bloodying his nose.

"At this point a third group from the restaurant observed the disturbance and intervened," the police report says.

The group of suspects then started yelling at the third group, and apparently attacked them as well.

During the incident, one of the men in the trouble-causing group fell down and hit his head, and was knocked out.

Two men were taken to Harborview, and a third man was treated at the scene. Police ultimately arrested two men in connection with the incident.

This isn't Seattle crime exactly, but the LA Times has a great article on "predictive policing," which could very well make its way to Seattle some day.

So just read it and don't give me any lip, alright. It's Friday.

Besides, the story has the best lede that I've read all week:

The future of crime fighting begins with a story about strawberry Pop-Tarts, bad weather and Wal-Mart.

With a hurricane bearing down on the Florida coast several years ago, the retail giant sent supply trucks into the storm to stock shelves with the frosted pink pastries. The decision to do so had not been made on a whim or a hunch, but by a powerful computer that crunched reams of sales data and found an unusual but undeniable fact: When Mother Nature gets angry, people want to eat a lot more strawberry Pop-Tarts.

Los Angeles police are using the anecdote to explain a similar, but far more complicated, idea that they and researchers say could revolutionize law enforcement.

[...]

"The naysayers want you to believe that humans are too complex and too random — that this sort of math can't be done," said Jeff Brantingham, a UCLA anthropologist who is helping to supervise the university's predictive policing project.

"But humans are not nearly as random as we think," he said. "In a sense, crime is just a physical process, and if you can explain how offenders move and how they mix with their victims, you can understand an incredible amount."

An apparently racist driver assaulted a biker in the U District after the two got into an argument. He then spit on him and called him a racial slur, according to the police report.

Two bikers were headed south around noon August 30 on the sidewalk along the west side of 11th (which is one-way headed north). A driver finished using the drive-through at Roosevelt and 45th (likely the WSECU ATM) and drove across the parking lot to make a left onto 11th, heading north.

The victim told police the driver was driving so fast he thought he was going to be hit, so he yelled at the driver to slow down. Both the bikers and the car came to complete stops, and the suspect and victim started yelling at each other. After a little yelling, the victim continued riding and passed in front of the suspect's vehicle. The suspect then allegedly ran into the victim, knocking him to the ground. He then "drove around [the victim] spitting on him and calling him a 'nigger,'" according to the report. The report does not note the victim's race. The driver then fled the scene.

The victim was not injured, and his bike was not damaged. He and the other biker tried to catch up with the suspect, but they lost him after he turned onto 50th. The plate information they provided did not match the suspect's vehicle, a silver Honda Accord.

Tom is a contributor to Seattle Crime and editor of SeattleBikeBlog.com

SPD just sent out an update on this morning's big police response in the Central District:

On September 2, shortly before 8:30 AM, East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots fired from an apartment balcony in the 2000 Block of East Yesler Way.  Officers nearby heard the multiple shots.  911 received numerous calls on the shots fired. 

The initial report stated that a black male wearing a dark colored sweatshirt came out of the apartment onto a small balcony and fired a handgun numerous times before returning back inside the apartment. 

Witnesses reported seeing the man do this twice.  Officers arrived quickly and surrounded the apartment.  There were also reports of the suspect possibly leaving the building and walking down the street and heading to nearby Pratt Park, so officers had to check those areas as well.  Officers were able to confirm that the suspect was still inside the apartment. 

SWAT officers responded to the scene and made contact with the suspect inside the apartment.  SWAT was able to convince the suspect and three other occupants (a male and two females) to come out of the apartment where they were taken into custody. 

SWAT then cleared the apartment and announced that no one else was inside.  Officers then were able to go back inside and continue their investigation.  During the course of the investigation officers located several 9mm shell casings and a stolen 9mm handgun was recovered from inside the apartment. 

Witnesses were able to identify the suspect based on his clothing.  The suspect, a 25 year old male resident of the apartment, was later booked into the King County Jail for Department of Corrections violations, Reckless Endangerment, and Possession of Stolen Property.     The other suspects were interviewed and released from the precinct.  There were no injuries and it does not appear that any property was damaged.