Posted on 04/03/2019 7:08:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
For the past five years, like many of its West Coast counterparts, Seattle has endured a steady expansion of homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and street disorder. But the activist class—a political and cultural elite comprising leaders in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and media—has enforced a strict taboo on declaring the obvious: something is terribly wrong in the Emerald City.
Last month, veteran Seattle reporter Eric Johnson of KOMO violated that taboo with a shocking, hour-long documentary called Seattle is Dying, which revealed how the city has allowed a small subset of the homeless population—drug-addicted and mentally-ill criminals—to wreak havoc. Johnson’s portrait is backed up by evidence from King County homelessness data, by city attorney candidate Scott Lindsay’s “prolific offender” report on 100 homeless individuals responsible for more than 3,500 criminal cases, and by my own reporting on the homelessness crisis.
In the past two weeks, Seattle Is Dying has garnered 38,000 shares on Facebook and nearly 2 million views on YouTube. The report has clearly resonated with anxious, fearful, and increasingly angry Seattle residents. Exhausted by a decade of rising disorder and property crime—now two-and-a-half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s—Seattle voters may have reached the point of “compassion fatigue.” According to the Seattle Times, 53 percent of Seattle voters now support a “zero-tolerance policy” on homeless encampments; 62 percent believe that the problem is getting worse because the city “wastes money by being inefficient” and “is not accountable for how the money is spent,” and that “too many resources are spent on the wrong approaches to the problem.”
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Watch the KOMO program for your answer...
...the voters adopted “PC Policies” and are now beginning to wonder why their city has turned into a cesspool!!!
I wonder if the city is careful to keep the bums out of South Lake Union (Amazon territory).
When will politicians learn not to subsidize bad behavior?
Yeah, but did you watch the documentary? I didn’t see Seattle having a migrant problem. Most of the addicts and homeless were white. We can’t make the migrants an excuse for every problem. In this case they don’t seem to be playing much of a role.
Baltimore, Memphis, Detroit and LA are all in the same predicament. But the liberals are too smart to realize the problem is too expensive and they don’t have enough rich people left in their state.
Worth the read.
Get real. The reporter did not show the migrant enclaves lest he be labelled a racist.
My sister in law took her twin daughters to LA last year and was shocked at the druggies everywhere and the trash. Do these cities realize what this is doing to their tourist industry ?
I look forward to your evidence of migrants being part of that core 100 people who commit a large portion of crimes.
Denver is turning into the Seattle of the Rockies.
I live east of Tacoma. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had with people who are fed up with it everywhere around the Puget Sound, it’s not just in Seattle. I, personally, am boycotting the city until this gets cleaned up. A lot of other people are, too. Bums me out because it IS a beautiful city but it’s just gone to shit. There’s even a Facebook page called Seattle Looks Like Shit that a lot of people have subscribed to. Couple city council members have announced they are not running again,so hopefully Seattle will elect some people who might start to get hard nosed about this situation. They are also hemorrhaging cops. 200 are set to retire this year.
Seattle is a signature of things all across America. America is dying. Seattle is just a concentration of the cancer that has spread across the country.
America is a place of low standards where living in filth and trash and squalor is standard and acceptable. Being poor is just an excuse for laziness and being sorry individuals.
East of me, along the county road are 7 little houses on a mile of dead end road. Each of them is a dump or a junkyard. The filth the people live in is not because of poverty but because of laziness and being just plain white trash. They complain about their condition but don’t do anything about it. For starters, fire is your friend and then there is the junkyard or metal recycler. These oafs can’t even keep their trash picked up.
Our highways are dumping grounds for macmeals and anything else. What kind of cretin just finishes a drink and flings the cup and the happy meal out the car window?
I did not see anything in the Seattle documentary that I don’t see every day on every highway, street and cross roads in much of America to some degree. Most of America is filthy squalor with crumbling roads, bridges and buildings. The best thing for the nearby town of 8,000 would be fire and a mass burial since there is not a single building or home in it worth saving. It would be better to just sweep the whole mess off the face of the earth.
Where do you send all the people living on the streets? What do you do with them? Nobody wants them or can do anything with them. Why are there so many now in our country?
I don’t want them but who does?
Fact is, I don’t want the seven little houses East of me. I’ve tried to buy them out but they won’t sell.
I wonder if it is 10% or 20% who make 80% of the problems?
Why should anyone have the right to be a problem to anyone else who is not?
You have to understand how this “sanctuary” attitude affects overall law enforcement. The wacky Democratic politicians restrict the police from enforcing many laws lest the migrants be “harassed”. This allows all sorts of creeps highlighted in the film to flourish and act openly. The city does not even enforce its own sanitary or housing codes. The pathology that is killing American culture is multifaceted. You can defend uneducated, culturally alien migrants all you want. But the reality is they are transforming America into something most will not like and you and the rest of the oh so tolerant people will never be able to recover and restore what once was great.
This is how Nazism starts ... always with the leftists who get tired of their own self-created problems.
The problem might be coming to your town soon. Recently, the local paper reported that a handful of people wound up in Manhattan, Kansas after being given bus fare by a homeless agency in Seattle. They didn’t have the money to support the homeless, so they sent them to another city with a reputation of having good support services for homeless people. Gee, thanks for sharing, Seattle.
I commute daily on I405/I5 and find that a little patience goes a long way. Irritants consist mostly of angry middleaged guys in their humongous pickups going too fast and youts in winged asiatic racerboi cars driving nutso.
Has anyone ever seen a homeless person in Fargo, North Dakota?
you must live in the ‘Peg eh?
Welcome to Ky !
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