Thanks. I've been to Seattle a few times myself and have been talking a lot to a college roommate who lives in the area. He was saying that Bellevue had been taken over and was more worried about that than he was CHAZ.
Not what I read .... I cross checked it from multiple publications all echoing the same statement that there were reports of people and businesses being extorted. Even the Seattle Police chief made comments on extortion "we've heard reports" and now is walking it back adding the word anecdotally. The police chief also stated police had received reports that protesters set up barricades, "with some armed individuals running them as checkpoints into the neighborhood."
I’m gonna check that show out, have a little bit of time now since the pandemic. Thanks for the heads up.
Pretty much this. Until serious crime starts happening, the local authority is just leaving so they dont escalate the situation. That said, Seattle has a serious issue that has been going on for a long time now. To expect them to change course at this point is silly and will only add fuel to the fire. For now, someone needs to sit outside the city block and stamp peoples passport with a CHAZ stamp. In the mean time, im telling my conservative friends the CHAZ warlord is calling for international support to help maintain the borders. North Korea has offered to help. Red Dawn is just months away.
This graph is silly and a straw-man argument. Seattle isnt a violent city. That is not what people are complaining about. I dont feel unsafe walking about or driving in Seattle, generally speaking. However the city has serious issues on its hands with poverty, homelessness and petty crime. This is the rot people are speaking of. Seattle was much better 15 years ago. That said, if these tech companies start pulling out and/or if the city doesnt start taking these underlying issues more serious, violent crime will start to rise.
How do you know that has to do with the city? Couldn't a scenario happen were rural regions are being decimated with the opiod crisis and then flock to major cities like LA, SF and Seattle because major cities have more infrustrcture to shelter and service the homeless and drug addicted? Major cities will always have a disproportionate amount of homeless people. It's because major cities have signifcant infrustrcture such as public parks and shelters that will attract the homeless from all over an entire region outside the city's jurisdiction. Isn't there an entire South Park skit regarding this phenomenon?
Thats what happened in the video you posted about homeless drug users in seattle. Fwiw in contrast to fox... people are posting from this zone in seattle and looks like a street art deal with kids and families
It’s been going for awhile now per the orders of that doofus mayor Durkan. It’s all there in the documentary “Seattle is dying”. You cannot blame the Seattle PD on this one. The mayor and city council simply neutered them. Many officers left the force in complete disgust. The Seattle PD is so depleted now, even last year, the doofus mayor came out with a 15k sign on bonus for veteran cops to join the force, very few takers so far.
You probably missed the initial conv. @generalthade_03 said he has to "fend for myself". I'm trying to understand what's he's talking about. I've been to Seattle many times and except for the problems most cities faces when it start expanding rapidly, I don't ever see a need to fend for myself. But of course, my time there is limited so I could be missing something. Thus, the check on criminal stats.
Please provide a link because I can find no such information. So far I heard “ANTIFA” when there is zero evidence of that. Now that is being walked back. Then I heard extortion but there is zero evidence of that either. The police have had to walk that back. I don’t know what the hell they are doing inside there but I do know that passing off speculation as fact isn’t right.
