Posted on 01/25/2016 9:17:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hundreds of homeowners and business people, frustrated over drug and property crimes, are hiring their own security patrols to curb what they see as a long-neglected problem.
For Angie Gerrald, crime in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood has reached a new low. From illegally parked RVs to open drug deals, the longtime resident sees piles of used needles on her routine runs, she said, and other problems she says police sometimes ignore.
"The blatant lawlessness has been a whole new era" this past year, Gerrald said. "There is so little response -- so little they [police] can and will do about it."
Hundreds of residents in Ballard, Queen Anne, Magnolia and Fremont share Gerrald's frustration over crime and police response near their homes and businesses, and it's sparked a citizen-led movement to improve surveillance. They cite incidents of burglaries, thefts and illegal drug use over the past year, for instance -- crimes they believe are rising with the city's growth....
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A new way to destroy property rights. Dedicate two parking lots in the midst of expensive homes for homeless people to live in their cars and RVs.
Then watch crime soar in nearby neighborhoods.
This really reminds me of turning wolves loose on the west.
What say you, Molly? A 21 work of art?
Utopia, much like Lesbianism, isn’t anything like it’s portrayed in the Movies.
Seattle is considering removing zoning for single family homes.
Everyone should live in apartments shared with rent control poor.
It is socially unjust to own even a small backyard.
Communism is the future.
It’s not easy clearing those wilderness corridors.
Marijuana has nothing whatsoever to do with this crime. It has most to do with liberal local governance and the consequences thereof.
If it does, then why doesn’t my conservative town in eastern WA suffer from the same plagues — marijuana is legal here also.
That’s the original plan to destroy property rights. Didn’t go over well so maybe dedicating parking lots to homeless will work instead.
Most of the residents of these very expensive areas indulge themselves.
There are lots of university folk, etc here.
It’s not pot. I think it might be agenda 21 communism. The apt buildings generated too much controversy, so just give the homeless parking lots where they can live in their cars. Right down the street.
A cheaper and faster way to drive down property value and get people to move.
Take care over there. We worry for you eastern folk.
Left western Wa for northern Michigan last year.
Thanks, but why would you worry about us? Low population density, good demographics, great natural resources, self-sufficient farming, conservative sentiment. etc.
A Democrat Utopia
A Democrat Utopia
This is how protection rackets get started.
People will prefer organized crime.
As the Cesspool grows. The true “global warming” will be this kind of crap. Keep giving to the trash and non productives, then there will be no place to have a decent way of living.
Ping!
So what are these idiots’ taxes going toward? Public employee pensions? Maybe these folks will be repairing their own potholes in tbe not too distant future.
Seattle/King County: progressivism at its finest!
What the hell is wrong with these people? Why in the world would the Police waste their time on minor property crimes and such like this? These small time criminals don’t have any MONEY to pay for the needed Police work to prosecute, You peasant hard working, serf’s do. That’s why we are dedicated to issuing Citations and DUI checkpoints, and Domestic Violence complaints to keep our streets safe, and ALL OF THESE PAY BIG MONEY in to the system, which allows us to keep our Jobs and Retirement.
GOT IT!
Are you Seattle PD?
No, just a jaded and cynical 55yr old man
I was joking.
Mostly.
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