Progressive City Of Seattle Dealing With Massive Homeless Problem And Rising Crime

[longknife]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

 

[jasonnfree]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

Not sure what this has to do with socialism though.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Another Progressive success

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

What does this have to do with socialism?

 

[jasonnfree]

Another Progressive success

Venezuela doesn't have a federal reserve to bail them out either like we do. Funny seeing Trump talking about Venezuela. Betcha he couldn't even find it on a map.

 

[candycorn]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

Sounds like Dallas except Dallas has far more homeless and is nowhere near as charming.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

Some have tickets to Nashville Tenn, MERRY XMAS NASHVILLE

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Dump a few hundred Hondurans and Guatemalans on the streets. That will fix it.

 

[grainbely]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

Homelessness, crime, and addiction are all hallmarks of large cities. Large cities are almost all progressive because they have to come up with solutions to deal with the high population density and the above problems. The density is necessary, though, to run the major businesses and government offices of the country that service all of us. The rural areas we only need for farming and biodiversity. Everything else is in the metropolitan areas.

I have a hunch that Seattle and san Francisco's problems are worse because of the location and circumstance of silicon valley and redmond.

 

[Toro]

What does this have to do with socialism?

It's more of a progressive thing than a socialist thing.

Progressives are more tolerant of letting people live on the street. Conservatives see homelessness as contributing to crime and making people less comfortable on the streets.

I side with the conservatives on this one.

 

[skookerasbil]

What does this have to do with socialism?

It's more of a progressive thing than a socialist thing.

Progressives are more tolerant of letting people live on the street. Conservatives see homelessness as contributing to crime and making people less comfortable on the streets.

I side with the conservatives on this one.

Lol....very astute post!

 

[blastoff]

Still plenty of taxes yet to be enacted to help pay for everything, or so they always seem to think.

 

[Deno]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

What does this have to do with socialism?

That's like asking what does the sun have to do with daylight...

 

[Silhouette]

They never learn. Why is it so difficult to understand that socialism never works.

City Journal reports:

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect.

To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population @ To “Celebrate” Christmas, Police to Forcibly Remove City’s Entire Homeless Population

Waikiki Police Department is planning to remove all of the city’s homeless population in a massive sweep. The action has prompted backlash from the community as well as the ACLU.

During the early morning hours, from 3:00 to 5:30 a.m. offices will sweep the town and forcibly remove all tents, gear, and people from the streets.

Executive director of the ACLU of Hawaii, Josh Wisch spoke to KITV, saying, “The city’s continuing effort to criminalize the houseless are – in our view- not only illegal and constitutionally questionable, but they’re ineffective and cruel. Doing this on Christmas Eve is unconscionably cruel.”

Homelessness, crime, and addiction are all hallmarks of large cities. Large cities are almost all progressive because they have to come up with solutions to deal with the high population density and the above problems. The density is necessary, though, to run the major businesses and government offices of the country that service all of us. The rural areas we only need for farming and biodiversity. Everything else is in the metropolitan areas.

I have a hunch that Seattle and san Francisco's problems are worse because of the location and circumstance of silicon valley and redmond.

SF & Seattle are major ports for heroin importing from the Orient shipping. That goes a long way to explain that problem existing in Seattle for sure. Spend some money on more drug dogs at the ports & this might go a long way to solving the homeless issue.

People become homeless predominantly because of addiction. Heroin addiction quickly makes users indigent. Once indigent, they cannot afford housing because they have to choose between rent & smack. Smack always comes first. No addict can tolerate becoming dope sick. So, heroin imports unchecked = unchecked homelessness.

This stuff doesn’t have to be rocket science. Buy more drug dogs at a fraction of the homeless cost and then you’ll see real progress on the problem.