BALLARD PILOT · SEATTLE EXPANSION TO FOLLOW
Keep our
tables open.
Behind every broken window is a small business.
Start with Ballard: restaurant reports, public police listings, local journalism and owner-post links—all with their sources in view.
SMALL BUSINESSES. BIG PART OF SEATTLE.
♡ A city is only as strong as its neighborhood spots.
Ballard-first pilot. Restaurant totals do not include unverified police listings or social leads. An earlier Alki sample remains available in the neighborhood filter. Full Seattle coverage is a future phase. How we count →
THE INCIDENT EXPLORER
See what’s happening.
Explore the reports. Understand the impact. Know the places behind the pins.
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One mapped restaurant incident Repeat location Optional police contextApproximate locations · not a risk map
Dates reflect incidents, not article publication. Uncertain dates match any overlapping range.
OFFICIAL RECORDS · BALLARD NORTH + SOUTH
Beyond the headlines.
Search police report listings and calls for service. Follow each record back to the city’s data.
A police listing is not a restaurant identification. Approved burglary records include homes and other businesses. Calls are dispatch events, not verified crimes; a commercial call can concern any commercial property. The same event can appear in news, crime and call data—never add these counts together. Full report narratives require a public-records request ↗.
Uses the incident explorer’s date filter. Restaurant name, neighborhood and incident-type filters do not classify police records.
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Coverage, delayed records and privacy
Official scope: the city’s BALLARD NORTH and BALLARD SOUTH neighborhood labels, not guessed patrol-beat boundaries. Data begins Jan 1, 2025. Crime listings are deduplicated by report number; CAD listings by event number, not responding officer. Only burglary (NIBRS 220) is downloaded from the crime dataset; CAD records match burglary in the initial or final call type. All-premises burglary is not synonymous with commercial burglary.
SPD publishes approved crime reports once daily; pending reports and later classification changes can alter the snapshot. We show source-update time separately from our download time. A successful download does not mean the underlying records are current. Failed downloads retain the prior complete snapshot with a warning. Redacted coordinates are not inferred. Calls are deliberately displayed without map coordinates or exact addresses. No automated address match is used to attribute an official record to a restaurant.
Download the official-data snapshot and exact queries (JSON) ↗THE BIGGER PICTURE
Not just a broken window.
Every repair bill is money that can’t go back into the business.
Reports over time
By incident monthA trend in this collection is not a trend in Seattle crime. News coverage, missing reports and approximate dates affect counts.
When it happens again.
REPEAT LOCATIONSCounts refer only to separately documented incidents in your current filters—not every incident a business has experienced.
WHY THIS EXISTS
A repair grant isn’t
a public safety strategy.
Restaurant owners should be serving their neighbors.
Not budgeting for the next break-in.
This project was inspired by The Seattle Times’ story about restaurant owners coming together to make noise ↗. The article’s full text was not available for verification; the incidents here are independently sourced from the linked local reporting.
In Ballard, owners have described stolen equipment, damaged doors and costs that fall below insurance deductibles—or aren’t insured at all. In Alki, a co-owner described three break-ins at adjoining shops and warned that repeat losses aren’t sustainable.
In May 2026, KIRO 7 reported Copine’s planned closure ↗, citing rising costs, slower business and multiple break-ins. Crime was one reported pressure—not an established sole cause. We mark that closure rather than recommend a visit.
Read the Ballard reporting ↗THE RECOVERY GAP
Help with repairs.
Not a full recovery.
$5,000current standard repair grant cap
Seattle’s Storefront Repair Fund reimburses eligible storefront repairs. It does not cover stolen goods, and businesses must pay first. Funding and eligibility apply; limited exceptions may exist.
Paid up front by the businessStolen goods excludedFunded by the Payroll Expense Tax
Official policy checked Nov 10, 2026. Older articles cite a $3,000 cap. This is not a calculation of any restaurant’s grant award or uncovered losses.
Read the city’s current rules ↗Recovery matters. So does preventing the next break-in.
Our position: pair assistance with effective, lawful enforcement, investigation and prevention. Ask the city to measure repeat victimization, case outcomes and grant effectiveness. These reports alone do not establish that grants waste tax dollars or that any single policy causes crime.
TURN AWARENESS INTO A TABLE FOR TWO
Show up for your local.
Grab a coffee. Order dinner. Bring a friend. Small visits make a difference.
Places in your current map filters. Visit links are not endorsements or confirmation of current hours; check the business before traveling.
POLICE · LOCAL NEWS · OWNERS · PUBLIC SOCIAL MEDIA
More eyes. Better evidence.
Every source has an access label. “Listed” does not mean automatically monitored.
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What social coverage actually means. Owner Instagram links, public Facebook pages, Reddit search links and a broadcaster’s YouTube report are discovery channels—not automatic proof. Platform-restricted posts, private Facebook groups and Nextdoor content are not scraped. Reliable ongoing Meta/Reddit ingestion would require approved access or owner submissions. Post dates and text that could not be independently read are not invented. Multiple channels from one publisher and reposts are not independent corroboration.
On our radar
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Feed health & update details
GitHub checks two police datasets and nine RSS channels every six hours (best effort, not guaranteed). This page checks published files every five minutes. Archive search feeds broaden discovery but may include irrelevant or older stories. A human must verify, date, deduplicate and locate restaurant reports. Social links are manually reviewed or linked through original reporting; private content is not collected.
Know what you’re looking at.
A small collection, not a crime census
News coverage is uneven. The starting dataset covers Ballard and Alki, not all of Seattle. An empty view means no matching entries here—not no crime. Police-wide burglary totals are not treated as restaurant totals.
Dates, costs & repeat incidents
Approximate incident windows are explicit and overlap date filters. Cross-month uncertain incidents are not assigned an invented chart month. Cost floors sum available lower estimates, exclude unknown costs and upper-only estimates, and are not audited, inflation-adjusted, net of insurance or net of grants. Shared premises are counted once. Repeat counts require two separately mapped incidents at the same location in the selected range.
Reporting standards & corrections
“Sourced” means a public report supports the entry—not independent police confirmation or proof of guilt. Entries distinguish burglary, attempted entry, outdoor theft and vandalism. We do not name suspects or infer links between incidents. Pins are approximate address locations (ArcGIS geocoding / address placement), not crime-scene coordinates.
Suggest a report or request a correction ↗Include a public source, business address and incident date. Do not post private information, accusations, security vulnerabilities or identifying images of alleged suspects. For an emergency call 911; this is not a police reporting service.