Police have asked the Liquor Control Board to strip the liquor license of Lake City’s Rose Garden (not pictured at left), the northernmost of Seattle’s 10 most intimidating dive bars. Reports the P-I: “Police have asked the State Liquor Control Board not to renew a Lake City bar’s liquor license, saying renewal ‘will clearly have a continuing detrimental impact on the health, safety and welfare of the surrounding community.’ The Rose Garden, at 13717 Lake City Way N.E., had 10 police responses to assaults during the first nine months of 2008…After a drunk customer stabbed an employee last year, police started a months-long investigation during which police ‘quickly and easily documented undercover purchases of narcotics, including several purchases from an employee,’ North Precinct Capt. Mike Washburn wrote in the letter to the Liquor Control Board. Among the incidents listed includes a report from Oct. 31, 2008, when an undercover officer bought crack cocaine from an employee. The employee said the Rose Garden licensees paid him ‘under the table’ and that the establishment was controlled by gangs for the purpose of drug dealing, according to police letter.”