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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No. LOL. I’ll be traveling there on my next trip north of the border in a few months, though!
I don’t think people with junk cars and “trash” around their houses is the same as bums freeloading in the cities.
I hardly think this a representation of “most of America”.
Remember liberty and how that looks divided between men who are equal.
Your view seems strangely inconsistent for someone with a liberation streak.
Every visit to our son in W. Seattle starts with chow at Duke’s Clam Chowder Emporium...
But the “leaders” won’t care because the homeless and illegals will continue to vote them into office.
“...too many resources are spent on the wrong approaches to the problem.”
But we’ll vote for you again anyhow.
When the people who commit such behavior stop voting for them.
Seattle has the 2nd highest property crime rate in the country right behind San Francisco.
Watch the video and you will not have questions. You will understand.
“...but not with all the vagrants (I hate the term ‘homeless’) ...”
Stew bums.
Dukes! I forgot about that place.
We also like to go to Ivars on the waterfront and feed the seagulls a bunch of fries.
The Boeing Stratoliner went down near there. We were able to see it from our downtown office.
The problem is really a drug addiction problem.
Migrants from other countries is not the issue in Seattle.
Anti-American city leaders who favor the drug-addicted street people, over their own tax-paying citizens, is the issue in Seattle.
And guess what political party they are all tied to?
I'll give you one clue. It's not Republicans.
Poor Seattle. I think it’s best that the rest of the country cheer so loudly that it drowns out the sound of their complaints. 12th man!
Thank you, legalized pot
It’s complicated. Because a big part of what people liked about the nazis was the cracking down on obscenity, pornography, degeneracy all of which are major components of killing American culture.
but it’s all rigged. They can’t vote their way out of it, none of us can. Sheesh. Everythings broken.
(The ‘rest of us’ being people who felt incentivizing the homeless could have bad unintended consequences.)
Today idiot liberals are ‘virtue signaling’ using ‘brown people - illegals - to show their moral superiority. Once again these dreadful people will bring horrors of new unintended consequences to our culture.
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