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Lake Stevens Among Safest Cities in the Nation

Safety in numbers: as the urban West Coast descends into disrepair, a range of independent crime-tracking resources list Lake Stevens as one of the best places to call home

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Apr 18, 2023
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As formerly-great West Coast cities continue to circle the drain in a swirling mess of fentanyl zombies, random violence, car thefts, sideshows and tent city under-overpass blazes (“A naked guy punched my co-worker in the face. Again,” reports my friend who works in the formerly Amazon-heavy commercial zone of South Lake Union) – residents of the swiftl…

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