[Quynh Pham] Before a lot of the focused police efforts,
this area was just really scary for everyone,
for the folks that worked here,
for community members who frequent this area for groceries and restaurants.
We were seeing like 50 to 100 people gather on
the corner of 12th and Jackson doing various activities,
especially a lot of crime related activities like the sale of stolen goods, drug use.
There should be a lead with the 1B already.
So you can just join that group.
"Each of the team captains should have the map
and the area that you'll be focused on."
"Our hopes are just to come back together as a community again
and do regular cleanups and events like this."
"Empty booze bottles of beer cans, water bottles, cigarette butts."
"Every little bit helps."
[Jennifer Le] It's been amazing the last month and I think a lot more effort and visibility
to what's been going on in this community.
And you can see just already a dramatic change.
A lot of the stuff that you see here today, it's really grassroots efforts.
Amazing to see how much people care about this area, but it's not enough.
[Quynh Pham] A lot of the businesses really love that it feels a lot more safe.
Their employees can actually come into work without having this fear
that they're going to be followed or attacked.
We're really hopeful and we're seeing the changes.
The community also wants to come together and do more to maintain this level of safety.
[Bruce Harrell] Hope and joy are heading in the right direction,
that these issues weren't created overnight and not going to be solved overnight.
But if I could just let people know we're heading in the right direction.
You see no criminal activity, you see cleanliness, you see hope.
And that's what One Seattle is all about.
It can spread like wildfire
and when people care instead of neglect.
And I think that helps all of us.
[Jennifer Le] We came out last month to clean this up and their mound was double or triple the size,
just the small effort that has been put in the last couple of weeks.
It's a drastic change.