Posted on 02/17/2024 3:50:38 PM PST by george76
The owner asked to remain anonymous for fear of being targeted by activists ...
A Seattle, Washington restaurant owner .. has lost faith in city leadership after his business suffered what he claims is its 23rd break-in since the "defund the police" movement started three years ago.
"I have lost all faith in the city of Seattle, SPD, Council members, and state elected officials ...
The owner of the establishment asked to remain anonymous over fear that activists would target him ... he was previously inundated with a slew of negative Yelp reviews after speaking out against the crime crisis in the city.
Surveillance footage of a February 3 robbery .. shows a burglar using an object to break through the glass on the business's front door. After struggling for roughly ten minutes, the thief made his way inside, leaving the door lock and frame "violently dismantled.
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Other Seattle businesses have also been the victim of repeated crimes..
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the Seattle Men's and Women's Chorus saw four break-ins over four days and a Seattle smoke shop was targeted seven times in just one month.
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A downtown Seattle Target would often see shoplifting daily before many products were put behind locked glass cases. Some businesses downtown and in the Belltown area admitted that they no longer ask officers to respond to crimes because of their frequency.
Last year, Seattle reversed course and increased funding for police for the first time since slashing funding in 2020, which was followed by a surge in crime that included a 24% rise in homicides, 30% rise in motor vehicle thefts and 4% rise in overall crime last year.
A 2023 national survey shows that Seattle leads the nation in the percentage of people who feel pressure to leave over crime concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Gee when did the penny finally drop ???
Must be those aspiring rappers who are just turning their lives around.
Me, it would’ve been after two.
Yes, he was that ignorant, naive and foolish enough to vote rat.
22 break-ins was tops! No more.
Too bad. You made your bed now lay in it.
It took 23 breakins to figure out that Seattle wants the “oppressed” to waltz right in and take whatever they want?
23 break ins?
SLOW LEARNER!
I think the only thing you can do is shake fentanyl on them . /s
The Seattle Men’s and Women’s Choruses are total LGBTQIA+ organizations. And they got broken into as well? I guess the thieves aren’t ‘woke’, are tney?
So...he still had faith after the 22nd break in?
Others it would be 1. 😆👍
This is what happens when communists, black extremists, and stupid liberals run a state and city, yet the Democrat voters don’t seem to care or even acknowledge it. Now everyone except the protected rich are suffering.
Well, I for one put my foot down after 20 break-ins!
Still there? whos stupid?
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